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I had totally forgotten about this video created years ago. Thanks for the reminder Paul!

LOUD fence - tie a ribbon to show your support for survivors and victims of child s*xual abuse. Made with VideoLabDownload: VideoLab http://bit.ly/1zZ6wXPhttp://www.videolabapp.com

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LOUD fence is about connection. You are never alone 🎗️

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Yesterday ribbons were tied at the former Queen St PS in Ballarat East. This event was organised by our wonderful Helen for John, who had reached out to us. John was emotional and so grateful to have been acknowledged, heard and supported.
Organisations and people who still don’t understand the power of the ribbons, need to attend one of these events and witness the emotion first hand. Every ribbon has a voice - just listen!
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Photo credit - Peter Kervarec legend. 🎗️🎗️🎗️✊🏼 💝
Thank you for your support with this event Uniting Ballarat. Much appreciated 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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The world would be a happier, more peaceful place if we all tried to understand instead of judging, paused before reacting, and gave each other the benefit of the doubt instead of assuming the worst.

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Artist Credit : Etta Vee

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Today I finally got to visit this exhibition in Ballarat. . The emotion I felt, the questions it stirred, the crap the children went through - honestly? Thank you for sharing. Thank you for your voice. Thank you for your honesty. We care 🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️

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At over 15,000 supporters our petition is one of the top most supported petitions on change.org! Thank you all our 15,456 supporters, the178 supporters who have contributed a total of $16,214.33 to promote our petition, and everyone who contributed to1,920 shares of our petition! This helps our campaign for the Victorian government to pilot frameworks of accessible and integrated service systems that are already working well elsewhere in Australia, and in the world, in a couple of Victorian communities devastated by historic, systemic institutional child s*xual abuse. The Ballarat community, and the Bayside communities of Melbourne.

We are also asking The Hon. Mary-Anne Thomas to work with the relevant decision makers within Victorian State and Federal Government, to ask that they collectively fund a person-centred approach to survivors, their families and communities, that requires knocking on just one door. Designed around the holistic needs of individuals and families, that provides victims and survivors of institutional child s*xual abuse with "no wrong door."

The urgent action our petition seeks, is well known to the Victorian State and Federal Governments, through numerous recommendations from various commissions and reports.

Thank you everyone! We are stronger together.

You can sign and share our petition 👇
https://www.change.org/SexualAbuseSurvivorsAndFamilies

The Beaumaris Inquiry needs to be expanded to recognise all Survivors of abuse for which the Victorian Department of Education is ultimately responsible. Justice and recognition should not merely be determined by a Survivor’s postcode and narrowing the scope of to only a select number of schools and offenders, we feel there is a disservice being done to the broader Survivor community who also suffered abuse within the Victorian State School system.
Read the whole release here: https://buff.ly/47v2n4h

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You may be interested in this podcast episode…

Healing from trauma with Anna from All Abilities Consulting Services - Simply Happy Conversations In this Simply Happy Conversation guest episode, I talk with Anna from All Abilities Consulting Services. She’s a social worker, project manager and policy writer, who’s a passionate advocate for psychosocial disabilities. In this episode: -What is trauma? -Signs that you are affected by trauma....

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Now showing in Art Space Ballarat.
'inVISIBLE: We were here. We are here.' 25 Nov - 10 Dec.
Open Thu - Mon, 11am to 4pm at 14 Lydiard St N, Ballarat.

It is forty years since the Ballarat Children’s Home on Victoria Street closed its doors in 1983. More than 4,500 children once lived there – in its various names, Orphan Asylum or Orphanage or Children’s Home. Their lives are forever part of this city’s story. Lives controlled by adults with low expectations and too easy to cast judgment. Yet here they are.

This multimedia exhibition brings together artists who spent childhoods in confinement in Ballarat, separated from their families and communities. It is a powerful statement of resistance, persistence, and presence, exploring themes of freedom found through escape, survival in the face of shattered childhoods, and the liberating experience of speaking back to the unreliable records of institutional childhoods.

A collaborative exhibition by Deb Gardiner, Deb Findlay, Frank Golding, Kerri Wilson McConchie and Rebecca Russell with Ember Parkin and David McGinniss.

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Memorial to historical child s*x abuse victims explored A public memorial acknowledging historical child s*x abuse at government schools in Victoria is under consideration. The Board...

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“Public hearings are an important part of the Inquiry’s process and will occur in phases throughout the duration of the Inquiry’s work.
They will provide an opportunity to hear experiences from victim-survivors of historical child s*xual abuse in Beaumaris Primary School and certain other government schools and from their families, friends, loved ones and supporters. Victim-survivors’ evidence will be heard directly, and through narratives read by Counsel Assisting.
Public hearings will also involve a range of witnesses for the purpose of examining the response of the Department of Education at the time, appropriate ways to support healing, and how to deliver effective support services to victim-survivors.”
I was very grateful to have been given the opportunity to speak at the Board of Inquiry today. LOUD fence Inc supports victim-survivors in their endeavour for justice and healing. We will continue to fight for changes in the culture of institutions and organisations that remain silent. Our aim is to keep children safe from s*xual assault. 🎗️🎗️🎗️✊🏼 In Good Faith Foundation The Survivor Hub Beaumaris And Surrounding Communities - CSA Survivors And Families
More info? https://www.beaumarisinquiry.vic.gov.au/

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