WISCONSIN
LaCrosse Tribune
By MIKE TIGHE l mtighe@lacrossetribune.com
If you go
What: “Faith, Healing and Future Work: Creating Partnerships to Promote Child Protection” conference
Where: Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Lobby
When: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday [July 26]
Cost: $10, payable at event (free for Viterbo students and faculty), 0.75 CEU credits possible at additional cost of $75.
Register: At www.viterbo.edu/vieth
More online: For more information about the National Child Protection Training Center, go to www.ncptc.org
Child sexual abuse takes an often-unrecognized spiritual toll because many predators use religion to hush their victims, says Victor Vieth.
Churches and children’s advocates need to acknowledge that influence to thwart abuse and help victims heal, said Vieth, executive director of the National Child Protection Training Center in Winona, Minn.
Vieth will advance that position as keynote speaker during a conference titled “Faith, Healing, and Future Work: Creating Partnerships to Promote Child Protection” from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center.
“A child abuser will touch a child and say, ‘See, you enjoyed that as much as I did.’ You’re just as sinful as I am,” Vieth said.
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