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A Comprehensive Resource to Keep Children Safe
Ready to learn more about preventing child sexual abuse at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO)? Access your Learning Center and choose your learning path today.
There’s no “one-size-fits-all” approach to keeping children safe from sexual abuse. Safe Kids Thrive utilizes an inclusive approach to addressing the child protection needs and concerns of any organization, establishment, facility, small business, or club that provides services for children.
Safe Kids Thrive presents an evidence-based process that Youth-Serving Organizations (YSOs) of every type can use to create a comprehensive child sexual abuse prevention program. Using this approach, each YSO can assess and strengthen their current safety practices.
The prevention practices and tools can be applied by individuals or groups and tailored to meet the wide range of needs of Youth-Serving Organizations (YSOs) of every type, size, and function
- A Policies and Procedures outline for establishing your mission’s commitment to holding each other accountable and ensuring child safety.
- A Code of Conduct detailing expected and prohibited behaviors and interactions between staff, volunteers, children and youth
- A Safe Environment policy covering physical and procedural protocols for in-person and virtual environments
- A Monitoring Behavior and Reporting protocols for staff and volunteers in the event a child discloses abuse, or when abuse is suspected or observed
- A Screening and Hiring process to detect and deter prospective employees and volunteers who should not be placed in positions of trust with minor children
- A Training and education program for all staff and volunteers on the topic of child sexual abuse prevention
A Leadership Imperative
The Safe Kids Thrive recommended organizational changes and policy initiatives require leadership – not only in making the case for the new safety initiatives, but in ensuring a wide collaboration among all stakeholders including managers, supervisors, employees, volunteers, parents, and children. Maintaining forward movement at your Youth-Serving Organization depends on monitoring, assessment, feedback, open lines of communication, encouragement, and sustained engagement all focused on protecting children from sexual abuse.
