Our services
SAMSN plays a significant role in bringing knowledge and collaboration to professionals and workplaces. The combined lived expertise and professional knowledge and experience provides a unique service.
- Service Providers Workshops are one-day workshops designed for community organisations and services providing support to adult male survivors of child sexual abuse and are conducted by experienced SAMSN facilitators.
- Keynote Addresses at conferences and forums.
- A Voice at the Table on advisory groups in the field of service development and delivery, safeguarding, policy development, professional standards and models of recovery from child sexual abuse.
- Lived Experience/ Expertise to organizations, roundtables and advisory groups providing a survivor lens in development and evaluation of services.
- Individual Consultation regarding therapeutic practice, case work and advocacy.
Service Providers Workshops
“We believe that male survivors can heal and recover from child sexual abuse, support others to thrive and be leaders for change.”
Working with Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: The SAMSN Approach
These one-day workshops is designed for professionals and organizations who seek to provide trauma informed responses and services to adults who have experienced child sexual abuse.
Combining both professional and lived experience input, thess workshops explore:
- developing a trauma informed response to support male survivors and their loved ones
- understanding the dynamics of CSA and its impacts on men’s health, relationships, and sense of self.
- factors that hinder and support men’s disclosure and help seeking.
- navigating justice, redress and civil litigation.
- prioritising self care and acknowledging resilience.
Continuing Professional Development:
APS and PACFA members can accrue Continuing Professional Development (CDP) hours by participating in activities that they determine to be relevant to their individual professional skills, learning plans and goals. The SAMSN Service Providers Workshop is an AASW endorsed CPD event and provides members with 4 CPD points.