A Code of Conduct establishes acceptable interactions and outlines the expectations and responsibilities of any person with access to children at your organization.
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Your Code of Conduct is an essential tool to help you ensure the safety of the children and youth in your care, and prevent child sexual abuse.
For your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) to ensure the safety of the children it serves, there must be a set of principles to guide the environment...
Your Code of Conduct should cultivate standards of behavior for staff and volunteers at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) which prioritize child...
Leadership at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) should implement the Code of Conduct by including it in many aspects of the organization. The...
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Training Best Practices To protect the children/youth you serve, your organization needs a comprehensive framework: a set of abuse prevention...
Depending on the size of your youth-serving organization, the data you’ll need to collect and analyze—or even simply summarize—could be...
How is Your Facility Designed to Keep Children Safe? Child development and school-age programs operate in many different types of facilities....
It’s essential that interactions between your employees/volunteers and the youth you serve are appropriate and positive, support positive youth...
This resource is meant to provide guidance for Youth-Serving Organizations (YSOs) on writing a Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics.
This resource provides links to mission statements of varying organizations.
This resource acts as an example for Youth Serving Organizations (YSOs) to support their creation of their Code of Conduct.
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Training Best Practices To protect the children/youth you serve, your organization needs a comprehensive framework: a set of abuse prevention...
Depending on the size of your youth-serving organization, the data you’ll need to collect and analyze—or even simply summarize—could be...
How is Your Facility Designed to Keep Children Safe? Child development and school-age programs operate in many different types of facilities....
It’s essential that interactions between your employees/volunteers and the youth you serve are appropriate and positive, support positive youth...
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