This document summarizes the launch of the Learning Institute and Philippine Journal of Child Sexual Abuse by the Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse (CPTCSA). It introduces the new Rapha counseling facility that was created to provide privacy and confidentiality for clients. It also introduces the first issue of the Philippine Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, which aims to publish indigenous research on child sexual abuse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Founding editors of the journal are also introduced.

1. Sharings
a publication of
Center for the
Prevention and Treatment
of Child Sexual AbuseIS S U E
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this issue
Rapha…….…………..…….p.2
Philippine Journal..….……..…
of Child Sexual Abuse..….p.4
The Learning Institute...…p.6
Best Practices……….…….p.8
Friends of CPTCSA…....p.10
Announcements..………..p.10
The Learning Institute
of collaboration and
interdependency
It has been a good and fruit-
ful 16 years since CPTCSA
came into being. We have
seen its growing pains; the organi-
zation of the officers and board
members; looking for funds for its
activities, projects and operations;
advocacy, training of the staff and
other workers in the field of child
sexual ; publication of a newsletter
and information and communica-
tion materials ; liaising with simi-
larly-minded groups; the holding of
a yearly summer institute; pains-
taking work with government agen-
ciese.g. DSWD, DepEd, CWC
among others and now the launch-
ing of our Learning Institute. There
is a need for multidisciplinary,
Zenaida Rosales, Executive Director of CPTCSA introduces the Learning Instiitute Launching at
The Sulo Riviera Hotel in Quezon City as Lois Engelbrecht, Board Trustees Vice-Chairperson and
Co-Founder, looks on
collective, collaborative and inter-
dependent work where everyone
does their job in a level playing
field without much regard to pro-
fessional hierarchy. CPTCSA has
been trying its best to hone the
skills needed to improve the ser-
vices related to child sexual abuse
since we opened our first Summer
Institute in 1996. We have spon-
sored and helped start similar
projects in China, Malaysia, Viet-
nam and India. We believe in the
empowerment of social workers
and professionals involved in child
protection by enhancing their
knowledge and skills. But most
importantly there is a need for equality
of the professions dealing with child
care and safety. We still have a lot to
do. On behalf of the officers and staff of
CPTCSA, I would like to welcome you
all to this momentous activity.
Mabuhay tayong lahat.
Dr. Reynaldo Lesaca Jr., President Emeritus of
CPTCSA, gives the welcoming remarks
Rotary Club of Palanyag,
Paranaque President, Mr.
Edgar Alvarez, sponsored
and shared words of inspi-
ration at the Learning
Institute launch with this
year’s Rotary International
theme: “Reach Within to
Embrace Humanity.”
See page 8...

2. I am happy to present to you a big
leap that CPTCSA has taken to
improve our counseling services.
Since 1995, we have served a
total of 807 children and youth
who experienced some form of
sexual abuse. It has been
CPTCSA’s practice to involve non
-offending parents or guardians in
the counseling of children; we
have served a total of 279 adults,
most of them mothers or female
caregivers. We conducted both
individual and group counseling.
To provide holistic services to our
clientele, CPTCSA networks with
NGOs who provide legal services,
child psychiatrists, specifically from the
Philippine Children’s Medical Center,
and other counselors form the field of
pastoral and family counseling. The
last two are regular members of
CPTCSA’s Treatment Response
Team, a monthly case conference
team that is our venue to discuss
assessment and interventions appro-
priate to specific cases. As the need
arises, CPTCSA also networks with
the Philippine National Police.
Our major sources of referrals are NGOs,
LGUs and DSWD that provides residential
care to sexually abused children. But over
the years as more and more people are able
to access the internet we also receive refer-
rals and inquiries from individuals who came
across information about us from the web.
It is CPTCSA’s practice to reflect on our own
work . Internal and external assessment of
our projects were con-
stantly done both at
the request of funding
partners and out of our
own need, and we still
plan to continue the
same process. Among
the lessons we have
learned along the way
are: (1) Counseling
sexually abused children, young sex offend-
ers and their families requires focus, since
this is an emotionally and intellectually taxing
process, a counselor needs to be able to
concentrate and deal with the many facets of
the issue, it being a complicated social issue;
(2) Counseling does not stand on its own,
collaboration with other professionals for the
best interest of the child is needed; (3)
Counseling sexually abused children needs
abuse-specific assessment and intervention
frameworks (4) Counselors need mentors,
mentors who have
the ability to empower the counselors
bring our the best in them so that they
are able to attend the clients in the best
way possible. CPTCSA has been doing
counseling in the same facility where
other personnel also do the daily task of
advocacy, prevention, fund raising,
admin and many other office transac-
tions.
During the last quarter of 2011,
CPTCSA was finally able to move the
counseling facility separate form the
office. This move was inspired by our
continuous quest for excellence and
respect for the rights of our clientele.
To ensure that clients are afforded with
appropriate confidentiality and privacy,
Rapha , the newest CPTCSA facility
was developed and created. The name
of the counseling facility is a
Hebrew word that means heal-
ing or to heal. It also means
stitching, which like healing, is a
slow and careful process of
mending.
Since October of 2011, all
counseling services are now
conducted in Rapha. There are
two counseling rooms, one for each
counselor. One room is especially
designed to cater to the needs of
younger and smaller children who are
best served through non-directive meth-
ods such as play therapy and using arts
and crafts. We are sorry we cannot
invite you to Rapha, but we thank you
for being here today and look forward to
sharing what we learned in the Rapha
walls. Thank you again for coming and
more power to us all.
Rapha is a Hebrew
word that means heal-
ing. It also means stitch-
ing, which like healing,
is a slow and careful
process of mending.
by Regina Rabanillo
Rapha: a place to healRapha: a place to heal
Regina Rabaniilo, head counselor of the CPTCSA
Treatment unit, introduced Rapha to the Learning
Institute launching guests
ISSUE NO. 63 DECEMBER 2011 page 2
Being safe places for others
Written by Henri Nouwen
When we are free from the need
to judge or condemn, we can
become safe places for people to
meet in vulnerability andseparate
them. Being deeply rooted in the
love of God, we cannot help but
invite people to love one another .
When people realize that we have
no hidden agendas or unspoken
intentions, that we are not trying to
gain any profit for ourselves, and
that we have no hidden agendas
or unspoken intentions, that we
are not trying to gain any profit for
ourselves, and that our desire is
for peace and reconciliation, they
may find the inner freedom and
courage to leave their guns at the
door and enter into conversation
with their enemies. Many times
this happens even without our
planning. Our ministry of recon-
ciliation most often takes place
when we ourselves are least
aware of it.
Our simple, non-judgmental pres-
ence does it.
_________________________
…Continued from page 5
It was found that among the six
symptoms, sexual concerns were
consistently clinically significant
and therefore, required more at-
tention in treatment. T-test results
that the resilient group was signifi-
cantly affected by their sexual
abuse experience, having higher
levels of depression, anger and
dissociation at the start. But they
showed better capacity than the
less resilient group to effectively
interact and respond more posi-
tively to treatment.
A two-way ANOVA revealed no
significant interaction between the
effects of clay therapy and resil-
ience on trauma symptoms.
T-tests showed that the 9-session,
5-week clay therapy intervention
was not long enough to produce
any significant difference in the
participant’s trauma symptoms.
More time seemed needed for this
intervention to show statistically
significant effects. However, from
their qualitative evaluation of the
intervention, clay therapy, obvi-
ously, had very positive effects to
the participants and showed prom-
ise as a powerful and innovative
treatment tool for working with
sexually abused children.

3. HELP
CHILDREN
HEAL
Treatment services for child
victims and child offenders
of sexual abuse
CPTCSA’s treatment services can
help by providing a safe release of
feelings, overcoming negative and
potentially self-destructive behavior,
helping understand what part of
thinking has been affected by the
abuse and help correct distortions,
helping build a sense of trust in the
child and in a positive future, ena-
bling children to gain a sense of
perspective about the abuse and to
gain the emotional distance
necessary to keep the
trauma from hurting
in the future,
and support-
ing the
child to
come
to
terms with
her or his own
sexu- ality, including
good feel-
ings sur-
rounding
sexual
behaviors
and the
ability to
dis- tinguish
healthy sexuality
from that of what is abusive.
A milestone of CPTCSA Treatment Response Unit
Rapha is safely tucked in a
confidential location. Currently,
Rapha has two air-conditioned coun-
seling rooms and a well-ventilated
lounge area with reception desk.
On the upper left hand wing is a photo of the
Rapha lounge area with wooden chairs and tree
mural art on its walls; group counseling room for
bigger children displayed on the upper right
hand wing as well as the top photo on this page;
and the play therapy counseling room for
younger children with sandbox , dolls and color-
ful toys.
“To ensure that clients are af-
forded with appropriate con-
fidentiality and privacy,
Rapha, the newest
CPTCSA was
developed and
created.”
Play Therapy,
Individual and
Group Counseling
Play Therapy,
Individual and
Group Counseling
ISSUE NO. 63 DECEMBER 2011 page 3

4. The Philippine Journal of
Child Sexual Abuse has long
been a goal of CPTCSA. Now,
because of the professional
network we’ve built over the
years and funding from Terre
des Hommes Netherlands, we
are pleased to finally see this
goal reach fruition.
We have always conducted our
own ongoing assessment of our
clients, shielding them from the
outside. However, with the launch
of this journal, CPTCSA has writ-
ten guidelines for how we can
open our work and our clients to
outside research while still pro-
tecting them physically, emotion-
ally and socially.
Our goal is to publish indigenous
research to gain respect for our
indigenous research-based prac-
tices and build insights based in
the Philippine psychology and
experience from a multidiscipli-
nary perspective based on data
from the frontline staff working
with children and their families, in
.
schools, communities, family-
based programs and institutions.
The Philippine Journal of Child
Sexual Abuse provides multidisci-
plinary forum on all aspects of
child sexual abuse. The research
on and experience in child sexual
abuse in the Philippines is increas-
ing. In order to fill the gap in dis-
seminating the research, the edito-
rial team will make every effort to
seek out research for the publica-
tion.
The Journal will have two distinct
parts of the dialogue on critical
pluralism of child sexual abuse in
the Philippines: research-based
academic manuscripts and evi-
dence-based practical manu-
scripts.
Researchers and practitioners in
the field of social work, sociology,
psychology, psychiatry, medicine,
law and education are all invited
to contribute to filling in all the
pieces of the puzzle for effective
services in the prevention and
treatment of child sexual abuse.
We thank our brave and committed
founding editors, representing some
of the multidisciplinary professions
in child sexual abuse: Dr. Johnny
B. Decatoria, Dr. Lois Engelbrecht,
Reynaldo J. Lesaca, Jr, M.D., Dr.
Emma Porio, and Dr. Jose Sotto.
We especially want to thank our first
authors. Rebecca Lanes is the au-
thor of the first article, The Innova-
tive Potential of Clay and Play (Clay
Therapy, Resilience and Trauma
Symptoms of Sexually Abused
Girls). This is an example of an
academic research-based article.
Regina Rabanillo is the author of
the second article, Traumagenic
Dynamics Frameworks with Filipino
Clients, an example of evidence-
based practice.
We invite you all in the work to build
a safe world for our children.
CPTCSA from our inception wanted
to be the impetus for a movement—
a movement joined by everyone, led
by a multidisciplinary collaborative
team.
Dr. Lois J. Engelbrecht presented the first issue of the Philippine Journal of Child Sexual Abuse at the
CPTCSA’s The Learning Institute launch
The
Philippine
Journal of
Child Sexual
Abuse
Written by Dr. Lois J Engelbrecht
The
Philippine
Journal of
Child Sexual
Abuse
RESEARCH GUIDELINES
CPTCSA has been protecting its
clients from outside research. How-
ever, with the launching of The
Learning Institute we now wish to
facilitate outside research in the field
of child sexual abuse.
At the same time CPTCSA needs to
protect our clients from all possible
harm. We have drafted some initial
guidelines for access to our clientele
for your research. This process will
need 4-6 weeks to complete.
1. Permission from professor ensur-
ing all ethical standards are followed
if the research is for a degree
2. Access to the clients is through t
their counselor only.
3. Access to the clients for non direct
contact, such as to complete surveys,
needs approval from the agency
treatment response team first who
will evaluate each question and the
instrument in general. Each client will
be given full disclosure about the
research and the client’s role in that
research. The client must agree.
4. No access will be given to any
document that includes any identify-
ing information, and no identifying
information will be given to the re-
searcher.
5. If the research requires any direct
contact with the client, the researcher
must meet with the agency treatment
response team to present the pur-
pose and details of the contact and
research. The counselor will then
fully disclose to the client(s) and give
the client a choice to participate.
CPTCSA
ISSUE NO. 63 DECEMBER 2011 page 4

5. Founding Editors
PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
JOHNNY B. DECATORIA is a Clinical
Psychologist, Educator, Psychotherapist,
Clinical Social Worker and a Trauma
Specialist. He finished his Liberal Arts
degree in Psychology at the University of
Negros Occidental-Recoletos in Bacolod
City and completed his Master in Arts in Clinical Psychology at
Far Eastern University-Manila. He earned his Ph. D. in Clinical
Social and Psychology at La Salle University is U.S.A.
DR. LOIS ENGELBRECHT has all three
degrees in Social Work from the United
States and practical experience in the Philip-
pines, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, China,
Saudi Arabia and Ghana.
REYNALDO LESACA, JR. MD. is a
privately practicing psychiatrist of 35
years. He recently retired from govern-
ment after 17 years of service with the
National Kidney and Transplant Insti-
tute in Quezon City.
DR. EMMA PORIO, Professor and Chairper-
son of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at the Ateneo de Manila Uni-
versity.
DR. JOSE SOTTO earned his Ph. D. in Coun-
seling and Special Education (minor in Social
Work) from Wayne State University, Michigan;
his Master of Education from the University of
Windsor, Canada; his Bachelor of Education from Wesleyan
University, Philippines; and Ministry from Princeton Theological
Seminary, New Jersey.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The research on and experience in child sexual abuse in the
Philippines is increasing. In order to fill the gap in disseminating
the research, the editorial team seeks academic and practical
articles to increase our understanding of the multidisciplinary
context of child sexual abuse. Researchers and practitioners in
the field of social work, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, medi-
cine, law, and education are all invited to contribute to filling in all
pieces of the puzzle for effective services in the prevention and
treatment of child sexual abuse.
Our first several issues will thank its contributors with PhP1,000.
The Innovative Potential of Play and Clay: Clay Therapy, Resil-
ience and Trauma Symptoms of Sexually Abused Girls
Rebecca V. Lanes and Johnny B. Decatoria
ABSTRACT
The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effects of clay
therapy as treatment modality and to examine the role of resilience on the trauma
symptoms, as measured by Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (Briere, 1996)
of 24 sexually abused girls, ages 11 to 17 years old from three rehabilitation centers
in Negros Occidental. A nine-session, five-week module on clay therapy, with a
trauma-focused cognitive behavioral approach and resilience as measured by the
Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents or RSCA (Prince-Embury, 2007),
were the two independent variables. Trauma symptoms consisting of anxiety, de-
pression, anger, post traumatic stress, dissociation and social concerns were the
dependent variables.
Participants were randomly assigned to the experimental or control group. The for-
mer was given clay therapy, while the latter a placebo activity. For each of the treat-
ment groups, a resilient group was also determined based on the RSCA scores. The
study followed a 2x2 fully-crossed factorial design.
...Read more on page
Traumagenic Dynamics Framework with Filipino Clients
Regina Rabanillo, RSW
ABSTRACT
The traumagenic dynamics framework of Finkelhor and Browne (1986) was devel-
oped based in western experience. The article presents Filipino examples using the
framework, validating its use for assessment here. This research is based in ran-
domly chosen 25 case studies of girls who were aged 11 to 18 at the time of intake.
Seventeen of the girls were victims of incest that ranged from molestation to rape.
Two of the girls were offended by more than one family member. Two of the girls got
pregnant by the stepfather and gave birth; another girl got pregnant by the father but
after she lost the baby she suspected that her father made her drink abortive pills.
Eight of the 25 girls were raped by non-family members, five of them were raped by
two or more offenders. The duration of abuse ranged from a single incident of sexual
assault to nine years of ongoing abuse. Of the 25 cases, the highest of the trauma-
genic dynamics assessed were stigmatization, followed by betrayal, powerlessness
and traumatic sexualization.
The cover of the
first issue of the
Philippine Journal
of Child Sexual Abuse
ISSUE NO. 63 DECEMBER 2011 page 5

6. A Filipino nation working together to stop child sexual abus
USING OUR STRENGTH OF COLLABORATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE.
The Learning Institute is a collaborative platform with special attention placed on social work,
but is open to all professionals and paraprofessionals in the field of
child protection working with the common goal of
creating a safe world for our
children.
THE LEARNING INSTITUTE
PREVENTION
TREATMENT
INTERVENTION
ADVOCACY
RESEARCH
Platform for
Preschool,
dary School
Collaborative a
nities are provid
mandated by De
1 Personal Sa
and Secondary
Safety Lessons
professionals.
Advanced Coll
Opportunities
Safety Lessons
finished Level 1
in implementing
in children’s clas
School Teache
taken from the
Program of Pla
and Community
Platform for
Child Protection and Development
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Units are
credited as Social Work License renewal requirements.
CPE units are composed of three modules for Profes-
sional Response to Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention,
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Young Sex Offenders.
Counseling Specialty Courses are five opportunities
for social workers and counselors:
 Individual counseling for victims;
 Group counseling for victims;
 Individual counseling for young sex offender;
 Group counseling for young sex offenders
 Counseling and case management utilizing
the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) model
Child Protection and Development Electives are
courses taken from the Outreach and Advocacy Pro-
gram of Platform for Parents, Home and Community
Leaders.
Intensive Courses are all courses under Continuing
Professional Education and Counseling Specialty
Courses with Practicum and Mentoring.
www.CPTCSA.org
The Learning Institute
of Collaboration and
Interdependency
by Zenaida S. Rosales
Why the need for The Learning
Institute? As one of CPTCSA
mandates, it aims to become a
credible training and resource
center with highly competent pool
of professional trainers and coun-
selors; The Learning Institute aims
to provide up-to-date local and
international information resource
on child sexual abuse and to facili-
tate efficient and effective plat-
forms for collaborative and interde-
pendent learning on prevention,
treatment, research, counseling
and appropriate legal and case
management.
Today, as a realization of this goal
and the beginning of this dream,
we are now sharing with you this
milestone of launching of CPTCSA
Learning Institute.
What is CPTCSA Learning Insti-
tute? It has these three character-
istics: Community of Learners,
Interdependency and Collabora-
tion. Collaborative platform of com-
munity of learners learning, shar-
ing and working together to stop
child sexual abuse and to create a
safer world for children.
...Read more on page
The
Learning
Institute

7. Platform for
Parents, Home and Community Leaders
Outreach and Advocacy Programs are opportunities for
community-based awareness and skill-building. Examples
are the following:
 Kids and Teens Court Awareness Program
 Empowering Victims of Sexual Abuse through
Bible-based Curriculum
 Family and Community Advocacy Training on
Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
 Protective Behaviors: Keeping children safe from
sexual abuse
 Child Protection Policy and Building a Multi-
Disciplinary Team
For more information about course structure, requirements
and costs, kindly visit our website at
www.cptcsa.org/Learning-Institute.
Email us for inquiries, feedback and suggestions regarding
these programs and courses at
learning@cptcsa.org.
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r
Primary & Secon-
l Teachers
and Interactive Opportu-
ded for school teachers as
epEd Order No. 45: Level
afety Lessons for Primary
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s for Preschool and ECCD
laborative and Interactive
are Level 2 Personal
for Trainers/Teachers who
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atform for Parents, Home
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Tell us how we can help
Let’s work together for a safer world for children.
The Learning Institute is a concept, a platform for collaborative solutions
for the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse.
CPTCSA
The Learning Institute Launch
ISSUE NO. 63 DECEMBER 2011 page 7

8. The Partnership between
CPTCSA and Terres des
Hommes Netherlands (TdH)
started in 1996 with the sup-
port of the Treatment pro-
gram. Together we journeyed
into the organizational evolu-
tion and development of
CPTCSA as a resource
agency in the capacity build-
ing program in case manage-
ment training of social work-
ers and counselors.
Together with CPTCSA we par-
ticipated in the integrated pro-
grammatic approach to child pro-
tection amongst the TdH partners
in the Philippines, which paved
the way for the formation of a
counselors network. In addition,
TdH supported the activities for
mainstreaming the Personal
Safety Lessons (PSL) into the
curriculum of public schools
nationwide which led to the pas-
sage of Department Order No. 45.
Terre des Hommes had specific
objectives for the publication of
Making the World Safe for Chil-
dren: Experiences of Center for the
Prevention and Treatment of Child
Sexual Abuse, as follows: 1) Facili-
tate self reflection and draw out
positive and negative experiences;
2) Guide CPTCSA in writing its
history and “biography”; 3) Identify
learning points; and 4) Produce a
publication of the organization’s
history.
The framework of the study was:
1) Document the experiences of
CPTCSA in fulfilling and protecting
the rights of children in vulnerable
situations; 2) Identify and validate
experiences that allow the sharing
of learning and mistakes that are
valuable internally and externally,
and 3) Identify “good practices or
approaches” challenges and gaps in
preventing and treating child sexual
abuse.
The methodology used was: 1)
Documentary review and review of
related literature; 2) Workshop with
CPTCSA staff; 3) Interviews with
DepEd teachers, supervisors, par-
ents, local government officials, and
child survivors; and 4) Focused
Group Discussion with students with
age ranges from 14 to 16 in se-
lected schools.
Limitations of the study are: 1) Few
partners were visited due to budget
constraints; partners were selected
on the basis of success of their
partnership with CPTCSA as well as
achievements in the project imple-
mentation; 2) Lack of uniformity in
the creation of Multi-Disciplinary
Teams among PSL partners; and 3)
Because of the sensitivity of the
Ms. Stella Echano of Terres des Hommes announced the publication of Making the World Safe for Children
at the Learning Institute launch held at The Sulo Riviera Hotel on November 11, 2011.
Written by Stella Echano
Terres des Hommes
announces the
publication of
Making the World
Safe for Children
Rotary Club
of Palanyag, Paranaque
gives the
Sponsor Sharing
Remarks
Wriiten by Mr. Nestor Alvarez
Ladies and Gentlemen, good after-
noon. First of all, I would like to thank
you all for inviting me to speak before
you in this launching day of Learning
Institute and coinciding with the first
issue of CPTCSA’s Journal of Child
Sexual Abuse. It is a great honor
indeed and a privilege for me to be
here today.
Secondly, on behalf of our group, the
Rotary Club of Palayag, Paranaque, I
wish to congratulate you for this yet
another milestone of your organiza-
tion. It shows only that your organiza-
tion led by your Chairperson,
CPTCSA would even be a more vi-
brant organization in the future and
therefore would be a driving force in
making a difference in the prevention
and treatment of child sexual abuse
not only in the Philippines but in other
parts of the world.
In Rotary, we also share a common
vision of a better world by sharing our
talents, resources and time to be able
to conduct various programs and
activities to uplift the life of impover-
ished people in our adopted commu-
nities. Among those programs are
our commitment in helping our youth
become active in pursuing good val-
ues as a citizen as well as train them
as future leaders. Guided by the
principle that the future’s generation
is our youth today. Rotary has a great
mission of making a difference in the
life of our youth.
...Continue to page 10
Terres des Hommes
announces the
publication of
Making the World
Safe for Children
ISSUE NO. 63 DECEMBER 2011 page 8

9. The Learning Institute of
Collaboration and Interdependency
(Continued from page 6)
Written by Zenaida S. Rosales
It is also a collaborative platform of learners where individual
expertise, strengths, and research-based solutions are duly rec-
ognized and shared for a common goal to protect children from
abuse. CPTCSA Learning Institute is a concept and not a fixed
place. Sessions are conducted at different venues; physical or
virtual, that can be done via: eLearning, Webinar, or face-to-face
interaction of the following formats: Annual Summer Institute;
Quarterly Courses; 1-day to week-long coursework; and 20-week
coursework that involves training and mentoring.
Who can participate in the Learning Institute? Child protec-
tion duty bearers and professionals from different backgrounds
and practices and leaders, advocates, paraprofessionals and
educators.
How can we participate in The Learning Institute? By enlist-
ing, as individual or group, in our coursework which are: Continu-
ing Professional Education with 3 modules in Prevention, Treat-
ment and Rehabilitation of young sex offenders; Counseling Spe-
cialty Courses in individual, group and case management for
sexually abused children with MDT component; Kids and Teens
Court Awareness Program; Empowering Victims of Sexual Abuse
through Bible-based curriculum; Family and Community Advo-
cacy Training on Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse; Protective
Behaviors and Children Protection Policy with Multi-disciplinary
Team component; and most importantly Intensive Courses of
Continuing Professional Education and Counseling Specialty
courses for Social Workers with Practicum and Mentoring for
each course.
The Learning Institute
KNOWLEDGE CENTER
The Learning Institute has in its knowledge resources a reference
Library, internetJournal library and an online bookstore. The
library has up-to-date international and Filipiniana resources,
journals and information relevant to child sexual abuse namely
International Journal for Social Work, Journal of Child Abuse and
Neglect and Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. The Internet Library
has international peer-reviewed journals, articles and books on all
topics. The online bookstore will soon merchandise CPTCSA’s
own publications of training materials such as curriculum manu-
als, workbooks, storybooks and digital videos. This soon will be
launched online by logging on to www.cptcsa.org/bookstore.
The cover design of the book documenta-
tion of CPTCSA’s experience in coopera-
tion with Terres des Hommes
only a few were chosen to be inter-
viewed.
Major Parts of the Book
Chapter 1: The CPTCSA: Background
and History
Chapter 2: Child Sexual Abuse in the
Philippines and the development of
Personal Safety Lessons
Chapter 3: Establishing policies to
address and prevent Child Sexual
Abuse through Advocacy, Lobbying
and Networking
Chapter 4: Treatment and Rehabilita-
tion of victims/survivors and Young
Sexual Offenders of Child Sexual
Abuse
Conclusions and Lessons Learned
Challenges
Making the World Safe for Children:
Experiences of Center for the Preven-
tion and Treatment of Child Sexual
Abuse will be printed and distributed
on the first quarter of 2012.
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10. Rotary Club of Palanyag, Paranaque gives the
Sponsor Sharing Remarks
(Continued from page
Aside from the fact that Rotarians have been staunch ad-
vocates of integrity and high ethical standards in their pro-
fessional and business dealings, one may say that in Ro-
tary we have more than enough programs to help alleviate
the lives of many fellowmen.
Mr. Nestor Alvarez, President of Rotary Club delivers his Sponsor
Sharing Remarks at the Learning Institute Launch held at The
Sulo Riviera Hotel on November 11, 2011
Yet, if we are to make an assessment, nothing is limited in
ways we could further extend the noble missions of Rotary.
And one of which is the protection of our children in our
society. As important as achieving a real equality and
justice in our society, the protection of our children reflects
the kind of sensitive values we have in advocating what is
just and what is good for our next generation. And person-
ally, I believe this is one nobler mission we could pursue
along with our existing programs. As responsible citizens
of our country, we should not close our eyes and remain
deaf in this very serious social issue which affects all sec-
tors of society and destroys the lives of our young children.
Therefore, on behalf of our club, I join and support you in
pursuing the noble purpose of your organization.
Mabuhay kayong lahat sa CPTCSA!
Become a partner in developing a Safe
World and join Friends of Center for the Pre-
vention and Treatment of Child Sexual
Abuse. We salute your help in maintaining
already existing safe behaviors by teaching
your children simple safety rules and sup-
porting child protection laws.
Step up to the challenge by expanding your
understanding and become a real part of the
solution. Join the Friends of CPTCSA for
personal insights into your own empower-
ment as you join our incredible journey to
create a safer Filipino world.
CPTCSA at PLDT’s
Pasko, Paksiw, Pakyaw Christmas Bazaar
at the CCP Complex, Pasay City,
December 15-21, 2011
Center for the Prevention and
Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
would like to thank Starbucks,
Matalino Street branch in Quezon
City for its year-round support
and generous goodies for
CPTCSA staff and clients. Thank
you, Starbucks and more power!
CPTCSA Staff
Zenaida S. Rosales
Executive Director
Regina Rabanillo
Jennifer Cueva
Treatment Response Team
Gina Lompero
Ma. Theresa Gulapa
Prevention Program Team
Lorelei Almirez
Resource Mobilization Unit
Jennifer Gebilanguin
Charito Solis-Taniegra
Finance and Admin
CPTCSA
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