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FAIR links	Jennifer Roach, "Shedding Light on the Complexities: Understanding Abuse within the LDS Church," Proceedings of the 2023 FAIR Conference (August 2023). link Jennifer Roach, "Why LDS Teens Benefit From a Few Moments Alone With Their Bishop," 2020 FairMormon Conference (video embedded below).
Online	Church hotline for leaders who encounter evidence or suspicion of abuse (for details see Handbook 1, [2010], 17.3.2). "Gospel Topics, "Abuse"," lds.org website. Church publications Responding to Abuse: Helps for Ecclesiastical Leaders (PDF booklet) Preventing and Responding to Spouse Abuse (pamphlet) Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse (pamphlet) Protect the Child: Responding to Child Abuse (DVD) Responding to Abuse: Helps for Bishops (DVD) Bishop's Guide: Helping Victims of Abuse (on-line) Bishop’s Guide: Abuse (Helping the Offender) (on-line) General authority addresses Gordon B. Hinckley, "Save the Children," Ensign (November 1994). Gordon B. Hinckley, "Personal Worthiness to Exercise the Priesthood," Ensign (July 2002). Gordon B. Hinckley, "These, Our Little Ones," Ensign (December 2007). Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Tongue of Angels," Ensign (May 2007). Dallin H. Oaks, "Protect the Children," Ensign (November 2012). Richard G. Scott, "Healing the Tragic Scars of Abuse," Ensign (May 1992). Richard G. Scott, "To Heal the Shattering Consequences of Abuse," Ensign (May 1992). Other materials J. Thomas Cearley, "Stop Using Words That Hurt," Ensign (March 2006). Sarah E. Miller, "Hope and Healing in Recovering from Abuse," Ensign (September 2008). Judy C. Olsen, "The Invisible Heartbreaker," Ensign (June 1996).
Video	""Failure to report sexual abuse Bisbee, Arizona"," BH Roberts Foundation print-link.
Print	C.D. Cunningham, "Are Publicized Abuse Cases Exceptional or Representative of Our Faith?" Public Square Magazine, 4 August 2022. Mical Raz, "Mandatory Reporting Isn't the Solution," Public Square Magazine, 19 September 2022. Tad Walch, "Should a member of the clergy report sex abuse of the penitent? A look inside the priest-penitent privilege," Deseret News, 19 August 2022.
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