Safe Environment Strategies: Visibility
Safe Environment Strategies: Visibility Whether or not you can control the design of your space, physical safety depends on your ability to…
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 1 suggests that implementing a child sexual abuse prevention policy and making the changes necessary to protect children/youth from child sexual abuse are not easy tasks, but that your organization should take on as many individual strategies to prevent child sexual abuse as you are able. They also offer several steps—paraphrased below—to help your organization effectively create, implement, and measure child sexual abuse prevention strategies.
For example, the goal of setting criteria for screening and selection of employees/volunteers may be to make sure that employees/volunteers are appropriate for working with the youth within your organization. Once that goal is agreed upon, and the screening and selection policies are adopted, your organization needs to reassess on a regular basis if that goal is being met. If it is not, what needs to be changed to meet the goal? If it is, consider more efficient ways to meet the goal.
Use other organizations’ experiences in this area. For example, look at the resources and sample policies included in this module. You may also consider discussing prevention policies with other organizations.
1 Saul J, Audage NC. Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; 2007. [Link https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/preventingChildSexualAbuse-a.pdf]
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