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Once your Code of Conduct is in place, it’s important to implement it through training and by disseminating the information widely, in a variety…
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Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. Personal safety and child sexual abuse prevention training should be age-appropriate to promote child/youth understanding of—and confidence in—your organization’s strategies to keep them safe. Both the Child Welfare Information Gateway and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center have resources available to help you select and evaluate available training programs.
If it’s within the scope of your responsibilities to provide training for children and youth, here are some best practices to incorporate as you build your curriculum:
Programs are successful when they are based on the most current research in prevention education, which tells us that effective programs should:
An effective curriculum:
An effectively presented child safety instruction program:
For more information on abuse prevention curricula for your organization, you can review these resources and reports that have been evaluated for effectiveness.
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Code of Conduct
Once your Code of Conduct is in place, it’s important to implement it through training and by disseminating the information widely, in a variety…
Safe Environments
Standards should be implemented to ensure safe physical spaces for children, such as clear sight–lines and visitor procedures. To ensure child…
Code of Conduct
Your Code of Ethics helps to guide the behavior and decision-making of your staff, volunteers, and participants by clarifying the standards and…
Monitoring Behavior
Monitoring Behavior is the responsibility of all staff to hold each other accountable for appropriate behaviors and to report inappropriate conduct…
Monitoring Behavior
Protocols should be developed in order to inform staff and volunteers about supervision, communication, and reporting procedures at your…
Screening & Hiring
Your Youth-Serving Organization’s (YSO’s) hiring process should include basic screening measures for potential staff and volunteers through…
Screening & Hiring
Here’s how you can develop a screening policy that fits your organization’s role, size, and resources: Know the screening rules and…
Screening & Hiring
If a criminal record is discovered, its existence alone does not necessarily automatically disqualify a candidate from employment or volunteer…
Monitoring Behavior
Your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) should develop a protocol to keep staff and volunteers accountable for their behaviors. Identify the…
Reporting
Sometimes, a child/youth might self-disclose an abusive situation to an adult in your organization. These disclosures can be direct, where the child…
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