The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre – a non-profit organisation established in 2016 to prevent child sexual abuse and provide free access to care, information, protection and emergency intervention – recently celebrated the graduation of 30 professionals from the justice, child protection, and law enforcement sectors.
The training program was designed to equip stakeholders in the criminal justice system with specialised skills for sensitive forensic interviews of children survivors of abuse.
Tutoring of the graduands who completed their specialised course as Child Forensic Interviewers, was conducted by the Zero Abuse Project and sponsored by The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre, marking a transformative step forward in safeguarding children in Nigeria.
According to social entrepreneur Bola Tinubu (Founder, CeCe Yara Child Advocacy Centre):
We are building a strong force in child protection with 30 newly certified Child Forensic Interviewers in Nigeria🇳🇬!
Building on this successful collaboration [with Zero Abuse Project], the Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre is partnering [with them] to create the ChildFirstNigeria Child Forensic Training Program, tailored specifically for Africa. The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre’s Training Institute will be certified by Zero Abuse Project to deliver and operate this course across Nigeria — a groundbreaking first for our country.
This will equip us to expand the network of skilled child forensic interviewers – critical to ensuring that our children’s voices are heard, and necessary to hold perpetrators of child sexual abuse accountable.
More exciting developments to come!
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