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I survived child abuse and now I’m a trustee for the small charity that helped me
‘I survived child abuse and now I’m a trustee for the small charity that helped me,’ Dawn Neville, NAPAC Trustee. ‘I know how important it is to have small, highly-focused charities that are close by when someone needs to talk.’
We’re recruiting
We’re looking for a Survivor Support Facilitator for our telephone support line service in Stockport.
Join our team of volunteers in Stockport
Molly, our newly trained support line volunteer: “When someone calls NAPAC, we do what we can; we listen and be there for them, we offer reassurance and information to support them – it’s so rewarding when someone says (at the end of a call), ‘thanks for your help’.”
BPS Conference: How should professionals best support those who make disclosures of non-recent abuse? 26 May 2017
NAPAC’s Survivor Support Manager, Jon Bird, will be speaking from a survivor perspective about trauma informed care at the British Psychological Society conference for psychologists & social care workers on 26 May 2017.
Big increase in Asian women calling NAPAC’s support line
The BBC’s Three Girls has reached a lot of survivors and prompted them to seek support from us after watching the programme. • We’ve had a very noticeable increase in Asian women calling who suffered abuse in childhood. • We’ve had a lot of callers who suffered...NAPAC’s 20th Birthday Celebration, 29th April 2017
NAPAC’s 20th Birthday Celebration, 29th April 2017. Pianist James Rhodes and celebrity patrons such as Dame Esther Rantzen are celebrating with an evening of music and entertainment, food and bubbly!
MPs seek reassurance after police chief says not all paedophiles should be jailed
Gabrielle Shaw, the chief executive of NAPAC, said this could “diminish the deterrent effect that a possible prison sentence provides, as well as the importance to the victim of seeing their abuser brought to justice.” at The...Mental health needs of survivors of childhood abuse are not being met by the NHS
The mental health needs of adult survivors of childhood abuse are not being met by the NHS. Health professionals may recognise that childhood abuse is the root cause of someone’s mental health problems, but there is minimal provision of trauma-informed and focused support which addresses the abuse underlying these conditions.
Over 10,000 call attempts in the past five weeks since footballers spoke out
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood’s (NAPAC) support line, the only national support line for adult survivors of child abuse in the UK, has been overwhelmed by demand since footballers bravely spoke about the abuse they suffered in childhood. The charity, which has just 10 staff, has received over 10,000 call attempts to its support line in the past five weeks and took 654 calls over this period.
New support groups for adult survivors of child abuse to start in 2017
NAPAC (the National Association for People Abused in Childhood) will be running 12 week survivor support groups in Dorking, Cardiff, Warrington and London, starting in early 2017. These groups, for up to 12 participants, are for adults who suffered any type of childhood abuse.
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