2024:
PATH Presents:
November 17, 5 pm-7 pm EST Elizabeth Clemants from HiddenWater
Abuse Prevention and Panel Dialogue with HiddenWater
On Sunday November 17, from 5 pm to 7 pm EST, on Zoom, PATH will welcome Elizabeth Clemants from HiddenWater to discuss a new program aimed at sexual abuse prevention. The Safe(r) Adult Training is an experiential prevention program offering skills-based interruption, navigation of disclosures, and guidance in support for healing. This in-depth training is for anyone in a position of responsibility for the well being of children and is an innovative approach to empowering both individuals and their communities in confidently addressing sexual misconduct and abuse.
Elizabeth Clemants, MSW, is the Founder and Executive Director of HiddenWater and soon to be published author of Healing Together: A Family Guide to Healing from Sexual Harm. The prevention program will complement already existing initiatives addressing the impacts of childhood sexual abuse.
Panel and Q&A: Following the presentation, Dr. Charol Shakeshaft (professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of the new book Organizational Betrayal: How Schools Enable Sexual Misconduct and How to Stop It), Ann Malabre and Julia Gray (survivors from Phillips Exeter Academy), and Elizabeth will explore how a program like this could inspire truly safe(r) communities at boarding schools. This will be followed by your questions.
Register here and consider donating at exeterpath.com. Recordings of the session will be available to all who register.
2023:
PATH Presents:
Special Event: Dr. Judith Herman with Dr. Charol Shakeshaft, Community Safety and Sexual Misconduct: What Works, What Doesn’t
Did you miss this event and wish to see it? click here
This event was a gift from PATH and our alumni allies to the Exeter community. PATH sponsored this event to engage the community, support dialogue, and come together on the issue of sexual misconduct. Dr Herman and Dr. Shakeshaft used their research to illustrate the reality of what the legal system can and cannot do when addressing sexual misconduct win community. Dr. Herman spoke to the enormous potential of the legal process to retraumatize those who have been victimized while also failing in making protective changes for the community through holding accountability. Dr. Herman identified the importance of the role of the community. She said sexual abuse is not a misfortune that happens to an individual, it is a community issue that needs to be addressed in community. Dr. Shakeshaft’s conclusion in her nearly 40 years of researching the response of schools to sexual misconduct is that not one school’s strategy has worked. She raised the question of what gets sacrificed in the moral community when legal defense lawyers are tasked to protect schools and whose sole job is to defend their finances. The Exeter community can do better than this. We are leaders and we can lead our community in innovation and change toward healing and a safer community for adolescents. Our school gathered some of the best and brightest from all over the world for 250 years. Let us use all that we have and all that we are to find the resolutions needed for this problem. Please contact PATH to get involved.