I am a young person

The Marie Collins Foundation is made up of specialist workers who understand about online sexual abuse and other forms of sexual harms that can happen through phones, apps, social media, games consoles, and other forms of technology. We call this Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse. 

We have a lot of experience with working with children, young people and adults who have been sexually harmed and often help the young person or their families on their recovery journey after this abuse. 

We know it is never the young person’s fault, despite what others may think or say, and we work hard to ensure that everybody else understands this too. The staff at the Marie Collins Foundation are committed to ensuring no further harm is done to a child who has been sexually abused.

 

What We Do

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We help children, young people, and their families to recover from the hurt that has been caused.  

We do this by ‘advocacy’ which means that we can support people in expressing their views, and what they would like to happen. As advocates we can also help people know what support they are entitled to and help to challenge other professionals if they are not doing what they should be doing. 

The other way we help is though education. We teach people who work with children by training them on how best to help a child who has been affected by sexual abuse. We also create resources for them to look at which can help them to help children and families who have been sexually harmed. 

 

Our 5 Year Plan

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To help us with making sure that children and young people are safe and free from harm when using the internet or technology we have written a 5-year plan outlining how we can do this in 4 ways – Advocacy, Education, Innovation and Recovery. 

 

 

Click here to see more about our 5 Year Plan.