Ensuring a safe environment for children includes targeting the five major areas of safety: visibility, access, supervision and communication, transportation, and safe technology use.
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Ensuring a safe environment for children includes targeting the five major areas of safety: visibility, access, supervision and communication,...
Physically safe spaces, with proper supervision, are required to maintain safety standards at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO). Ensure policies...
Standards should be implemented to ensure safe physical spaces for children, such as clear sight–lines and visitor procedures. To ensure child...
Safe Environments should be created by having clear sight lines, proper staff-to-child ratios, and safety standards for all personnel and...
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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 checklist aims to help Youth Serving Organizations (YSO) evaluate or assess their facility’s environment for safety.
This resource lays out how to achieve safe physical spaces at Youth-Serving Organizations (YSOs) for children of varying ages.
Steps Toward Child Abuse Prevention & Creating Safe School Environments (2024) in its fourth edition.
Monitoring behavior is the responsibility of all staff to hold each other accountable for appropriate behaviors and to report inappropriate conduct to leadership.
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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