{"id":15082,"date":"2014-05-07T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T22:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T22:34:40","slug":"wurtele-serves-on-abuse-prevention-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=15082","title":{"rendered":"Wurtele serves on abuse-prevention task force"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15083\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Wurtele.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15083\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Wurtele.jpg\" alt=\"Sandy Wurtele\" width=\"176\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Wurtele<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sandy Wurtele, professor, Department of Psychology, and associate dean, College of Letters, Arts &amp; Sciences, recently completed service as a member of nine-person Safe Sport Program Review Task Force for USA Swimming.<\/p>\n<p>The task force responded to an independent assessment of USA Swimming\u2019s Safe Sport program which is intended to prevent the sexual and emotional abuse of athletes. On May 3, the USA Swimming Board of Directors approved a series of task-force recommendations including improved training, transparency in the reporting and investigation of incidents, and counseling and emotional support services for victims.<\/p>\n<p>Wurtele, an expert on child sexual abuse prevention, continues to serve on USA Swimming\u2019s standing committee, Safe Sport. That committee is designed to develop policies, procedures, and training aimed at keeping swimmers safe from abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Sandy Wurtele, professor, Department of Psychology, and associate dean, College of Letters, Arts &amp; Sciences, recently completed service as a member of nine-person Safe Sport Program Review Task Force for USA Swimming. The task force <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=15082\" title=\"Wurtele serves on abuse-prevention task force\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-kudos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Wurtele.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-3Vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15084,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions\/15084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}