Adult support for meaningful child participation in preventing and responding to child sexual exploitation and abuse

The model GREATER Adult Support for Child Participation was developed to address this key obstacle and achieve more substantive adult support for meaningful child participation in addressing child sexual exploitation and abuse. Models are meant to capture ways of working that will help operationalize an organization’s strategy effectively, thus realizing identified organizational goals. A model can guide decision makers toward transformation, indicating the principles by which leaders guide their teams, how colleagues interact with each other, and how they collaborate with the communities with which they work. Bridgespan has noted that, “Many organizations find that their key challenges have more to do with the way people work together—or fail to do so—than with
structures or management systems.”2 It is therefore necessary to align an organization’s cultural norms with their decision-making style, to establish the context in which adults and children will work safely, equitably, and effectively together to achieve the desired impact.