Child sexual abuse is one of most harmful forms of human violation, and despite four decades of global public awareness, it remains a human rights and public health issue across nations and cultural groups worldwide. Legal systems rarely result in just outcomes and survivors the world over too often experience isolation and the stigma of not being believed. Specialist workforces in this complex area are also at risk of burnout, vicarious trauma and working within fragmented systems. 

Associate Professor Graham Gee will present on the efforts of 6 Victorian Aboriginal specialist services and his research team to strengthen workforce wellbeing and prevent burnout, and their recent work on engaging Aboriginal survivors with a lived experience of child sexual abuse to build new initiatives that support healing.