
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 ...

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 ...

Sample Site Assessment Checklist
This checklist is not exhaustive. It is meant to be a starting point and should be adapted to meet the ...

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 ...

Talking Jesus With A Survivor
Child abuse does not only affect a child’s body and emotional health. It touches their spiritual health, too. A child ...

Working with Law Enforcement: The Investigation and Your Child
At some level we all realize that investigations in real life take longer than they do on television. Yet, parents ...

Working With Law Enforcement: Getting Started
Some abuse is only discovered when a child talks to his or her parent about what happened. Hearing this in ...

Misbeliefs: I’m All Alone
Many survivors of childhood abuse report feelings of being alone in the world, that no one can understand them. These ...

Misbeliefs: It’s My Fault
Survivors of trauma, whether childhood abuse, sexual assault, or domestic abuse, share a belief that the abuse was their fault ...

Coping with Flashbacks
People who have experienced trauma may experience flashbacks in their everyday lives. Flashbacks can be intense and bring back the ...

What Is A Trigger?
Experiencing a sudden onset of the feelings and emotions that you felt during an abusive situation is a common experience ...