What is a Code of Conduct?
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.
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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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Along with guiding appropriate behavior, your Code of Conduct should include a clear description of the lines of communication and reporting...
Keep in mind that a Code of Conduct is limited; it usually refers only to the most common and expected behaviors staff/volunteers may encounter each...
Who Are Mandated Reporters? Massachusetts law defines a number of professionals as mandated reporters (for the full list, see MGL Chapter 119,...
Recognizing Abuse & Neglect The minimum required safety elements for you to prepare leadership, staff, and volunteers to recognize, respond...
Physical and Behavioral Indicators of Abuse Type of AbusePhysical IndicatorsBehavioral IndicatorsPhysical Abuse● Unexplained bruises (in...
Sometimes, a child/youth might self-disclose an abusive situation to an adult in your organization. These disclosures can be direct, where the child...
Safe Environment Strategies: Access Complementing the physical aspects of safety are the procedural aspects of safety and security, and how...
State and federal laws and regulations require specific types of screening and background checks—particularly criminal and sexual offense records...
With some exceptions, a single incident or observation of suspected abuse or neglect may not necessarily trigger the need for a call to the...
A personal interview provides an opportunity for you to meet applicants and determine if they are a good fit for your organization. It’s also a ...
When a member of your staff suspects that a child is being abused and/or neglected, they are required to immediately call your local Department of...
How is Your Facility Designed to Keep Children Safe? Child development and school-age programs operate in many different types of facilities....
Common Implementation Roadblocks Natural conflicts exist between strategy and culture. These conflicts—if left unaddressed— predict that...
Depending on the size of your youth-serving organization, the data you’ll need to collect and analyze—or even simply summarize—could be...
Training Best Practices To protect the children/youth you serve, your organization needs a comprehensive framework: a set of abuse prevention...
Training for Different Audiences Training programs designed to prevent child sexual abuse take many forms and contain varying levels of detail,...
Finding candidates you can trust includes additional steps beyond interviewing and checking references such as periodic criminal and sexual offense background checks.
Along with guiding appropriate behavior, your Code of Conduct should include a clear description of the lines of communication and reporting...
Keep in mind that a Code of Conduct is limited; it usually refers only to the most common and expected behaviors staff/volunteers may encounter each...
Who Are Mandated Reporters? Massachusetts law defines a number of professionals as mandated reporters (for the full list, see MGL Chapter 119,...
Recognizing Abuse & Neglect The minimum required safety elements for you to prepare leadership, staff, and volunteers to recognize, respond...
Physical and Behavioral Indicators of Abuse Type of AbusePhysical IndicatorsBehavioral IndicatorsPhysical Abuse● Unexplained bruises (in...
Sometimes, a child/youth might self-disclose an abusive situation to an adult in your organization. These disclosures can be direct, where the child...
Safe Environment Strategies: Access Complementing the physical aspects of safety are the procedural aspects of safety and security, and how...
State and federal laws and regulations require specific types of screening and background checks—particularly criminal and sexual offense records...
With some exceptions, a single incident or observation of suspected abuse or neglect may not necessarily trigger the need for a call to the...
A personal interview provides an opportunity for you to meet applicants and determine if they are a good fit for your organization. It’s also a ...
When a member of your staff suspects that a child is being abused and/or neglected, they are required to immediately call your local Department of...
How is Your Facility Designed to Keep Children Safe? Child development and school-age programs operate in many different types of facilities....
Common Implementation Roadblocks Natural conflicts exist between strategy and culture. These conflicts—if left unaddressed— predict that...
Depending on the size of your youth-serving organization, the data you’ll need to collect and analyze—or even simply summarize—could be...
Training Best Practices To protect the children/youth you serve, your organization needs a comprehensive framework: a set of abuse prevention...
Training for Different Audiences Training programs designed to prevent child sexual abuse take many forms and contain varying levels of detail,...
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