Training Curricula for Children & Youth
Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. Personal safety and child…
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To determine what screening tools are most appropriate to use for a particular position and to ensure consistency in your screening protocols, we recommend that you inventory the strengths and risks associated with your paid and volunteer positions. That includes:
To sum it up, whether your youth-serving organization is large enough to have a risk management or human resources office that can conduct a formal assessment, or is a small business with a single proprietor, our risk inventory translates into some basic questions that can help determine the appropriate level of screening for your potential employees and volunteers.
Training
Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. Personal safety and child…
Screening & Hiring
Screening means thorough reference and background checks, including review of criminal and sexual offender records, for all employees, staff,…
Code of Conduct
Your Code of Conduct will provide your staff, volunteers, and others responsible for children and youth with very specific guidelines that will…
Screening & Hiring
When possible, it can be informative to observe an applicant in your environment with the child(ren) and youth you serve, to look for potential red…
Screening & Hiring
Certain organizations, such as public schools and licensed childcare programs, must also query national criminal record and fingerprint-based…
Screening & Hiring
State and federal laws and regulations require specific types of screening and background checks—particularly criminal and sexual offense records…
Training
Training Best Practices To protect the children/youth you serve, your organization needs a comprehensive framework: a set of abuse prevention…
Training
Staff and volunteers must be trained on child abuse prevention, including the signs and symptoms of child abuse. In order to identify and vet these…
Screening & Hiring
Finding staff and volunteers you can trust to work with children includes additional steps beyond interviewing and checking references. …
Policies & Procedures
Policies for youth-serving organizations in Massachusetts should clearly identify the duties and responsibilities of all staff, reflect both Federal…
Customized child sexual abuse prevention guidelines to meet the unique needs of any organization that serves children.
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