8y Colleen Gehosld
Capital News Service
LANSING - The issue most
certainly won't be money.
The real test is going to be
whether a program to train
teacher and administators to
.. ecognize potential abusers and
victims of sexual abuse can be
expanded to include middle
school and high school teachers,
said Doug Roberts, deputy state
superintendent of public in
struction.
"We already have training
sessions in our Coomprehensive
Health model for K-6," Roberts
said. -We want to try to expand
that to include bigher-grades,"
The need for additional
sexual buse training was
slammed home last wee when
researchers unveiled the resUlt
of probe of doleseent sexual
abusers and their victims.
The Michigan Adolescent
Sexual Abuser Project found
there were 681 identified
juvenile sex 0 enders in 1986.
The median e of the offender I'"
�as.14 and median � of �e ) , " . f .(�nlt·7'h';- ,
Victim 7, ccording to Jill " "&ft" - I "'I �p. .
F.arrell, one of the coordiDaton . :" CI'L/ rll '��
of the study spon ored by . .
Detroit-b sed Safer Society .. � I ,'.
Resources of Michigan. *'
One of the groups' recom-
medation include exten ive
sexual abuse training for all
teacher , administrators, cus
todians and secretaries. .
'Training is really critical,"
Farrell said. "T chers need to
be trained in that area - what
kind of special intervention,
I what kind of support can be
ound.·
Roberts said Michigan
schools already meet part of the
recommendations with a
program that provides health
training. including sexual abuse,
to elementary teachers. I
About 20 percent of the funds
. for this program comes from
local school boards .• Additional
sources include S2 million in
state ppropriations and S4 mil
lion from the federal govern
ment, Roberts said.
The money to expand the
program can be mined from
local school boards in schools
where sexual abuse is recog
nized program, special educa
tion consultant Gerald ester
said.
The k-ey will be to involve
local school boards, he said. ,
uspeet it will not, cost a great
I deal," e id,
I Expansion of the present
model i ot slated for discus
sion at the State Board of
Educab meeting Feb. 2, said
edHubbeJl.
Effort onto
expand exual
abu e training
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