2025 When Faith Hurts Conference

Schedule

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 08:15 am to Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

St. Michael's Lutheran Church | Greenville, SC

When Faith Hurts: Equipping the church for faithful response to child abuse and sexual assault and its implications for congregational care
About this Event

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When Faith Hurts: Empowering the Faith Community to Prevent, Recognize, & Respond to Child Abuse and Sexual Assault

This conference prepares participants to prevent, recognize, and respond to cases of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. Conference sessions will discuss in detail the impact of various forms of child maltreatment and adult sexual assault on a victim's sense of spirituality and will offer concrete suggestions for working with medical and mental health professionals to assist a child or adult survivor in coping with maltreatment. Participants will learn ideal child protection policies for a faith based institution, including handling a situation in which a convicted sex offender seeks to join a congregation, trauma-informed pastoral care responses to sexual assault survivors, and the ways in which faith communities can offer prevention education to make not only their own members safer, but the whole community around them safer. The conference includes a review of various case scenarios and a discussion on appropriate and inappropriate responses.

The When Faith Hurts Conference has been approved for 17.5 VSP credit hours by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (LLR) Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage, and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists and VSP.


Contact Carrie Nettles with questions at [email protected] or 864-331-0560 x 230

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2025 WFH Agenda

2025 Session Descriptions


Keynote Speaker


Victor Vieth, J.D., M.Th.
Chief Program Officer, Zero Abuse Project (ZAP)

Victor has trained thousands of child-protection professionals from all 50 states, two U.S. Territories, and 17 countries on numerous topics pertaining to child abuse investigations, prosecutions and prevention. Victor gained national recognition for his work in addressing child abuse in small communities as a prosecutor in rural Minnesota, and has been named to the President’s Honor Roll of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. In 2012, Victor was awarded the Pro Humanitate Award from the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare.

Victor is the Chief Program Officer, Education and Research of the Zero Abuse Project, a 501©(3) public charity based in St Paul, MN, committed to education, training, and survivor support in order to eradicate child sex abuse and remedy its resulting harms. He is the 2018 President of the Academy on Violence & Abuse, and founder of the National Child Protection Training Center. With NCPTC and its partners, Victor has been instrumental in implementing 22 state and international forensic interview training programs and dozens of undergraduate and graduate programs on child maltreatment.

​Mr. Vieth graduated magna cum laude from WSU and earned his Juris Doctor from Hamline University School of Law (HUSL). In 2017, Victor earned an MA in theology from Wartburg Seminary. Mr. Vieth has published countless articles related to the investigation, prosecution and prevention of child abuse and neglect. He is author of Unto the Third Generation, a bold initiative that outlines the necessary steps we must all take to eliminate child abuse in America in three generations, and On This Rock: A Call to Center the Christian Response to Child Abuse on the Life and Works of Jesus (Wiff & Stock 2018).

Intended Audience

Members of faith communities and community partners who may work with children or families impacted by abuse.

"Until attending this workshop, I really had no idea how far our culture has been damaged by child abuse. I had heard the stats before but hearing the stories and seeing the faces of victims did something to me. It helped me understand better why my child safety director has been so adamant to invest in preparing our camp team. Thanks for educating me in a way that allows me to create a safer camp for my campers and counselors."


Where is it happening?

St. Michael's Lutheran Church, 2619 Augusta Street, Greenville, United States
Tickets

USD 161.90

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