On January the 19th, almost at midnight, our sister Priscila Brenes Granados, arrived at Fiumicino airport in Rome. She will enrich the community of the General curia with her presence for several months.
Sr. Priscila is from Costa Rica and she belongs to “Our Lady of Guadalupe” Province but, during the last five years she has been carrying out her mission in Mexico, concretely in the community of Tabasco, working as a director in the “Oasis de Paz” Family Home where our Community receives, accompanies and trains unprotected girls whose rights have been violated.
The Province “Our Lady of Guadalupe”, through the CLAR (Latin American Conference of Religious), has been offered a scholarship for one Sister to get the “Diploma in Minors’ Protection”, granted by the “Center for Child Protection” in the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome. The course, is organized this time in Spanish, it will begin on February the 8th 2021 and will end about June the 15th 2021.
The objective of the Diploma is to promote the protection of minors at an academic and professional level, through a training program whose principles are, first the victims, from a Christian vision of the human being in his own culture and a multidisciplinary perspective, fed and inspired in the Christian spirituality and the Gospel.
Among the competencies and skills to be acquired there are the following:
- To recognize the signs of abuse in the victims and of risk in the abusers.
- To help and support the victims of abuse and the secondary victims.
- To reflect about the spiritual and theological implications of abuse.
- To include spirituality in the objectives and measures of protection.
- To create protection networks in their countries, local churches, religious communities and other circles.
- To help the Church leaders to appropriately handle complaints.
- To identify the instruments for an adequate intervention.
- To adapt the specific guidelines implementation for the protection of minors in each context.
- To provide training courses about the protection of minors and the prevention in schools, parishes, formation houses, etc.
We wish to Sr. Priscila that this experience may be fruitful and helpful for her to grow humanly and spiritually and to bring her valid elements that will illuminate and stimulate the apostolic work she carries out, together with her community in favor of the most vulnerable minors whom they serve and accompany.
Welcome Sr. Priscila!