Founded in 1997, Bravehearts is an Australian child protection organisation dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse. Bravehearts' services and programs include:
- National Information and Support Line for information around matters related to child sexual abuse - Freecall 1800 272 831.
- Personal safety education programs for young children aged 3 to 8 years.
- Child protection online training courses for adults working with, for and around children.
- Therapeutic support services for children and families affected by child sexual abuse.
- Early intervention counselling and support for young people with harmful sexual behaviours.
- Redress service for adult survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.
- Research and lobbying.
- National community education and awareness campaigns.
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COMMUNITY STANDARDS FOR COMMENTING & MESSAGING ON BRAVEHEARTS' SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS
This is a place where you can make positive connections with the work of Bravehearts. It has been designed to be a safe space, but we are aware that at times what you see or read, may act as a trigger. If that happens, please call Bravehearts’ Information and Support Line on 1800 272 831. If you require assistance outside our Monday to Friday hours, please call 1800 RESPECT or Lifeline on 13 11 14. Please note, Bravehearts does not investigate child sexual abuse matters. We kindly ask you to adhere to the following community guidelines, remembering that while everyone’s experience and opinion is different, we want to behave respectfully and politely.
- Be respectful. Please do not post any content containing profanity, personal attacks, hateful language (this includes sexist, racist and homophobic language), antagonising, inflammatory or frivolous and vexatious.
- Protect your personal information. You participate at your own risk, so please be careful not to publicly share your personal information or the personal information of others.
- Follow the law. Child abuse allegations, naming alleged offenders, violations, stalking and other criminal activity must not be seen to be perverting the course of justice or breaking Facebook’s Community Guidelines https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards
- No spam. Comments that are off topic, have unrelated links to third party websites or posting the same content more than once from one person or multiple people.
- Value all members of our discussion. Treat all people fairly and equally. The Bravehearts team practices comment moderation and reserves the right to delete any comments and posts, as well as block/ban any users at our discretion. As this moderation is subjective, we are making these guidelines clear and easily available.
