Steps Toward Child Abuse & Creating Safe Environments: A “How-to” Manual for Massachusetts Educators

Steps Toward Child Abuse Prevention & Creating Safe School Environments (2024)

The Children’s Trust’s how-to manual for educators, “Steps Toward Child Abuse Prevention & Creating Safe School Environments (2024),” is now in its fourth edition. Guiding schools and other youth-serving organizations through the process of creating and sustaining safe and proactive environments for children, the latest version includes current research on best practices in preventing child sexual abuse in school settings, links to updated training resources and guidance documents, current DCF policies on mandated reporting, an expanded section on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, a new section on children and youth with Problematic Sexual Behavior (PSB), and links to free prevention resources and tools on the Safe Kids Thrive website.