Schools are entrusted with more than educating students. They are responsible for creating environments where students can learn without being subjected to sexual harassment, intimidation, or other forms of misconduct. When a student reports inappropriate behavior to...
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When School Staff Become the Threat: Sexual Harassment by Administrators and Education Employees
Schools are supposed to provide students with a safe environment where they can learn, participate in activities, and develop without fear of abuse. Parents often trust teachers, administrators, counselors, nurses, aides, coaches, and other school employees to protect...
Team Travel: Sexual Harassment and Misconduct During Tournament Trips
A team is also a workplace, educational setting, and close social environment. Coaches, athletic directors, trainers, doctors, and senior staff can control playing time, scholarships, roster status, travel, evaluations, recommendations, medical access, and future...
Play Time Shouldn’t Come With a Price: Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment in Athletics
A team is also a workplace, educational setting, and close social environment. Coaches, athletic directors, trainers, doctors, and senior staff can control playing time, scholarships, roster status, travel, evaluations, recommendations, medical access, and future...
When Winning Comes First: How Athletic Departments Can Enable Sexual Harassment
A team is also a workplace, educational setting, and close social environment. Coaches, athletic directors, trainers, doctors, and senior staff can control playing time, scholarships, roster status, travel, evaluations, recommendations, medical access, and future...
A Position of Power: When Juvenile Detention Staff Exploit Vulnerable Youth
Juvenile detention facilities are designed to house young people who are in the custody and care of the state. Because detained youth cannot simply leave when they feel unsafe, staff members hold an unusual level of control over nearly every part of their daily lives....
Youth Ministry Under Scrutiny: Sexual Abuse and Misconduct in Church Youth Programs
Church youth programs are often intended to provide young people with community, mentorship, education, and spiritual guidance. Sunday schools, youth groups, retreats, mission trips, camps, and other church-sponsored activities can give children and teenagers...
Silenced by Faith: Retaliation After Reporting Sexual Abuse in Church Programs
Why Reporting Misconduct Can Feel So Risky Reporting sexual abuse in a church program can take extraordinary courage. The person reporting may be a church employee, unpaid volunteer, congregant, parent, youth-program participant, or someone who depends on the...
A Position of Trust: When Clergy Abuse Their Authority Over Congregants
Trust Should Never Be Used as Leverage Clergy members are often invited into the most private parts of a person's life. Congregants may seek guidance during grief, illness, divorce, financial stress, family conflict, or a crisis of faith. A pastor, rabbi, imam,...
School Administrators Looked the Other Way: When Schools Fail to Address Sexual Harassment
When a student or employee reports sexual harassment, they should be able to expect the school or educational institution to take the complaint seriously. A principal, administrator, human resources department, Title IX coordinator, or university official who receives...
