Finding candidates you can trust includes additional steps beyond interviewing and checking references such as periodic criminal and sexual offense background checks.
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Finding staff and volunteers you can trust to work with children includes additional steps beyond interviewing and checking references. ...
Your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) should create protocols for the application, interviewing, and screening process. Each step of the process...
Your Youth-Serving Organization’s (YSO’s) hiring process should include basic screening measures for potential staff and volunteers through...
Additional screening and hiring measures should be implemented based on the specific needs, responsibilities, and risks of your Youth-Serving...
Learn more about preventing child sexual abuse in your organization by exploring the other Elements of Prevention. Save your favorite articles in your Learning Library.
Your commitment to protecting children from sexual abuse at your organization has gotten you this far. Take the pledge to keep kids safe at your site.
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 form is provided by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.
This form is provided by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.
These are example questions for an employment and volunteer application for Youth-Serving Organizations (YSOs).
Training programs are offered to staff at least annually to heighten awareness of your commitment to safety and help create a culture of zero-tolerance for child abuse.
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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