Preventing Abuse: Respite Care

Preventing Abuse: Respite Care

Parenting is hard! One of the most challenging jobs in the world, it requires patience, empathy, and the ability to ...
Preventing Abuse: An Overview

Preventing Abuse: An Overview

They say, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Children need people around them to provide a safe, healthy ...
Step Nine: Educate children about personal safety

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 ...
Step Ten: Review and maintain your child protection program

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 ...
Step Eight: Create guidelines for responding to abuse

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 ...
Step Seven: Support abuse survivors

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 ...
Step Six: Train Adults in the Church

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 ...
Step Five: Implement Guidelines for Youth Leaders

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 ...
Adult and Minor Interactions

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 4 Assess Your Space

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

Sample Site Assessment Checklist

This checklist is not exhaustive. It is meant to be a starting point and should be adapted to meet the ...
faq

Should abuse of a child by another child be handled in the same way as abuse by an adult?

While abuse by a juvenile can impact a child emotionally, physically and spiritually, the process of dealing with a juvenile ...