Reporting: Recognizing Signs of Abuse
Effective reporting structures rely on staff and volunteers’ recognition of signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect. The Youth-Serving…
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Here’s how you can develop a screening policy that fits your organization’s role, size, and resources:
In addition to meeting screening requirements for specific positions, your organization should implement some level of screening and background checks for all employees and volunteers—both youth and adults (although information for youth will likely be limited).
No exception to screening should be made, even for individuals known to the screener or to your organization. However, the level of screening may change based on an individual’s level of engagement with children and youth, and especially if unsupervised interactions are expected. You should consider stronger requirements for the screening of individuals who are likely to have any direct unsupervised or unmonitored contact with children and youth.
Reporting
Effective reporting structures rely on staff and volunteers’ recognition of signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect. The Youth-Serving…
Training
Training for Different Audiences Training programs designed to prevent child sexual abuse take many forms and contain varying levels of detail,…
Screening & Hiring
State and federal laws and regulations require specific types of screening and background checks—particularly criminal and sexual offense records…
Training
Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. However, not every organization…
Reporting
The “Protective Intake Policy” framework was designed “to clearly articulate a primary and immediate focus on child safety in screening and…
Code of Conduct
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…
Monitoring Behavior
Develop a culture of child safety at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) using your Monitoring Behavior protocol that includes leadership-driven…
Code of Conduct
Your Code of Conduct will be unique to your organization, based on your size, purpose, location, staffing, ages served, additional vulnerabilities…
Training
Parents and other caregivers need to receive, at a minimum, the same level of prevention education as their child/youth. Parents can be strong…
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.
Customized child sexual abuse prevention guidelines to meet the unique needs of any organization that serves children.
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