Abuse

I thought I would post this notice on here. I called the # listed below - and yes, they still take calls/emails about abuse (no time limit) that occurred in any CMA-run boarding school. In fact, I was asked specifically to post this notice so everyone would know they could call or email.

Margie
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http://www.cmalliance.org/mkNotice.jsp

Important Notice
To all adult C&MA MKs or other MKs that attended an MK school overseas formerly administered by the C&MA.

In recognition that some adult MKs may not be comfortable reporting past abuse directly to The Christian and Missionary Alliance's (C&MA) Sensitive Issues Consultative Group (SICG), which was established for such purposes, the C&MA's Board of Directors has approved, at the recommendation of the SICG, the establishment of an independent reporting mechanism for those adult MKs who were either children of C&MA missionaries or attended C&MA-administered schools.

This independent reporting mechanism will be available to receive reports for the next six months, and longer if determined necessary. This independent agency, The Ross Group, is set up to receive reports of abuse by e-mail at theguardian@trgidaho.com, by phone at 407-415-3508, or by postal mail at The Ross Group, Box 1191, Pinehurst, Idaho 83850.

The Ross Group will report directly to the C&MA's Board of Directors over the next six months or more, by providing documentation of all reported abuse, along with any recommendations, for the purpose of determining the necessary steps to bring both healing to the victims and discipline to the perpetrators.
The C&MA, and its Board of Directors, takes the matter of abuse and child safety seriously but needs the assistance of those who have been abused in order to address these matters as effectively as possible. The SICG still stands ready, for those who are willing, to receive reports of abuse, both past and present, and to move to investigation of such reports as appropriate.