{"id":7025,"date":"2018-09-03T15:18:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T05:32:40","slug":"2018-victorian-protecting-children-awards-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2018-victorian-protecting-children-awards-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Victorian Protecting Children Awards nomination."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congratulations to the Gatehouse Centre for being named a finalist in the Minister\u2019s Awards for Innovation in Protecting Children category for the 2018 Victorian Protecting Children Awards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This nomination recognises Gatehouse\u2019s innovative work to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families affected by sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Gatehouse has recently introduced three programs: Animal assisted therapy, the Child Family Trauma System Intervention &#8211; a therapy for trauma exposure &#8211; and Our Space, a resource for young people experiencing vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Allied Health Bernadette O\u2019Connor said the team was thrilled to be nominated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Gatehouse Centre has for decades provided support and therapy for children and young people who have experienced significant trauma and abuse,\u2019\u2019 Ms O\u2019Connor said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They consistently look to improve their practice in order to provide great care and are a truly dedicated group of staff.\u201d<br \/>\nChild Protection Week runs until Saturday and is an opportunity for government, business and the community to come together to promote the safety and wellbeing of children.<\/p>\n<p>The message of this year\u2019s campaign is \u2018Protecting children is everyone\u2019s business\u2019 and it urges all Australians to \u2018Play Your Part\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>We wish our colleagues the best of luck at the ceremony tonight!<\/p>\n<p>The Gatehouse Centre is a Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) that provides assessment, treatment and advocacy services for:<br \/>\n\u2022 Children, young people (aged between 0-17) and their families living in the North Western metropolitan area of Melbourne or the cities of Moreland and Hume, where sexual abuse is known or suspected to have happened.<br \/>\n\u2022 Children, young people (aged between 0-15) and their families, living in the North Western metropolitan area of Melbourne or the cities of Moreland and Hume, where problem sexual or sexually abusive behaviours are a concern.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital inpatients.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7026\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7026 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2018\/09\/EXT_1624_4000-726x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"423\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back Row L-R : Matthew Austin, Saya Knox, Ivka Griffin, Pauline Ryan and Anna Kovacevic.<br \/>Front Row L-R : Hanna Kopel, Nadine Sherer, Karen Hogan, Anna Perri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Gatehouse Centre for being named a finalist in the Minister\u2019s Awards for Innovation in Protecting Children category for the 2018 Victorian Protecting Children Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}