Sustaining the Monitoring Behavior Protocol
Develop a culture of child safety at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) using your Monitoring Behavior protocol that includes leadership-driven…
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Effective abuse prevention training provides learners with new information, knowledge, and skills. Your leadership is critical to the ways in which these new skills and awareness are encouraged, applied, and become part of the institutional “mindset” of your organization, supporting best-practice behaviors that protect children/youth.
Here are some strategies to consider:
Organizational planning, policy, and practices should support the required vigilance, communication, and actions necessary to keep children/youth safe, and provide feedback to all stakeholders. The goal is that the combination of information, knowledge, and practice leads to the development of skills and behavioral changes—and the adoption of personal and organizational responsibility—for child sexual abuse prevention and intervention.
The “Training Continuum” chart below provides a visual framework for the continuum of information, knowledge, application, and skills that well-designed training programs can support. Trainees need to understand the context of why the training exists and why it’s important—not simply that it’s required by your organization. Information about indicators, symptoms, boundaries, and resources tells your employees and volunteers what to look for, how to recognize sexual abuse and other forms of maltreatment, and to whom to report when it is suspected or observed.
Monitoring Behavior
Develop a culture of child safety at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) using your Monitoring Behavior protocol that includes leadership-driven…
Training
Training Best Practices To protect the children/youth you serve, your organization needs a comprehensive framework: a set of abuse prevention…
Training
Training Contractors, Consultants, and Interns When it comes to training your contractors, consultants, and interns, there is certain core…
Screening & Hiring
Screening means thorough reference and background checks, including review of criminal and sexual offender records, for all employees, staff,…
Reporting
Thinking of children or youth as capable of sexually abusing other children or youth can be difficult to consider and challenging to address. In…
Code of Conduct
Once your Code of Conduct is in place, it’s important to implement it through training and by disseminating the information widely, in a variety…
Training
Training should be used to increase knowledge and awareness of child abuse prevention, to teach staff about responding to children who disclose…
Training
Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. However, not every organization…
Reporting
Mandated reporters are required to immediately report suspicions of child abuse and neglect to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families…
Monitoring Behavior
Protocols should be developed in order to inform staff and volunteers about supervision, communication, and reporting procedures at your…
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