Checklist for Safety Checks in Your Facility
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Monitoring and responding to inappropriate behavior is a part of the job of every individual involved in your organization. It means observing interactions and reacting appropriately. This includes interactions involving employees and volunteers with children/youth, as well as child-to-child and youth-to-youth interactions. Youth leaders often require more supervision and monitoring because they’re young, lack experience, may lack judgment, and are harder to screen. Your monitoring requirements should be defined based on your organization’s mission and activities.
Supervisors and managers have a particular responsibility to remain vigilant and available to staff and volunteers who deal directly with children and youth. Your staff will need to know how to respond to behaviors that appear inappropriate or are causing concern, how to intervene appropriately and effectively, and how to report harmful behaviors. Staff are also responsible for helping other staff, especially new staff members, understand and adhere to your Code of Conduct. Your staff members and volunteers should be aware that if they see something, and don’t correct or report it, they become part of the problem.
Safe Environments
How is Your Facility Designed to Keep Children Safe? Child development and school-age programs operate in many different types of facilities….
Reporting
The term Human Trafficking is used by Department of Children and Families (DCF) as an umbrella term used to include two specific allegations of…
Sustainability
Community interaction and involvement is important in maintaining a culture of safety surrounding your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO). In order to…
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.
Sustainability
Depending on the size of your youth-serving organization, the data you’ll need to collect and analyze—or even simply summarize—could be…
Screening & Hiring
Screening means thorough reference and background checks, including review of criminal and sexual offender records, for all employees, staff,…
Screening & Hiring
Finding staff and volunteers you can trust to work with children includes additional steps beyond interviewing and checking references. …
Safe Environments
Safe Environments should be created by having clear sight lines, proper staff-to-child ratios, and safety standards for off-site personnel and…
Training
Training Best Practices To protect the children/youth you serve, your organization needs a comprehensive framework: a set of abuse prevention…
Training
The approaches in the chart below can provide frameworks that make your organization most effective when training adults and/or children/youth….
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