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Preventing Abuse: Respite Care
Parenting is hard! One of the most challenging jobs in the world, it requires patience, empathy, and the ability to ...
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Preventing Abuse: An Overview
They say, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Children need people around them to provide a safe, healthy ...
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Step Nine: Educate children about personal safety
No child abuse prevention plan is complete without a plan to reach out to the youth of the church with ...
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Step Ten: Review and maintain your child protection program
A program is only effective when it is followed and evaluated. Once you have child abuse response and prevention protocols ...
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Step Eight: Create guidelines for responding to abuse
Learning that a child has been abused while in the church’s care is a stressful situation, making good decisions more ...
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Step Seven: Support abuse survivors
More than one out of four people have experienced or are currently experiencing abuse, yet over half of all Protestant ...
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Step Six: Train adults to recognize and respond to abuse
Training the adults in the church is a vital step to keeping children safe. At a minimum every person who ...
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Step Five: Implement Guidelines for Youth Leaders
Boundaries are important and keep people safe. The fence around a power plant is meant to keep people a safe ...
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Sample Standards for Interactions with Minors and/or Vulnerable Adults
(Taken from virtusonline.org) Examples of appropriate contact with minors for Church programs include, but are not limited to: Verbal praise ...
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Step Four: Assess Your Space
Children need a safe environment in which they can learn God’s Word. Careful facility design is an important step to ...
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Sample Site Assessment Checklist
This checklist is not exhaustive. It is meant to be a starting point and should be adapted to meet the ...
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Children with Problematic Sexual Behaviors
It is important to recognize the differences when dealing with sexual behavior of young people: “Recognizing and Responding to Developmentally ...