The development and evaluation of an education program for service providers about culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) client victims/survivors of child sexual abuse: Technical Report 1 (Full Report)

Abstract

A multi-year project beginning April 2018 on child sexual abuse (CSA) and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia is being partly funded by Griffith University (GU). The project is comprised of three intended stages: (1) to develop and evaluate an education program for service providers about CALD client victims/survivors of child sexual abuse, for whether their cultural competency increased; (2) to develop and evaluate an education program for CALD community members, for whether their awareness of child sexual abuse increased; and (3) to develop and evaluate recommendations for how schools can adapt their current child sexual abuse prevention programs to include factors relevant for CALD children, families, and communities, for whether their culturally sensitive engagement increased. Technical Report 1 identifies the findings of Stage 1.