Safe Environment Strategies: Supervision
Along with site safety, visibility issues, physical access, and security procedures, supervision is a critical aspect of creating and maintaining…
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Effective abuse prevention training provides learners with new information, knowledge, and skills. Your leadership is critical to the ways in which these new skills and awareness are encouraged, applied, and become part of the institutional “mindset” of your organization, supporting best-practice behaviors that protect children/youth.
Here are some strategies to consider:
Organizational planning, policy, and practices should support the required vigilance, communication, and actions necessary to keep children/youth safe, and provide feedback to all stakeholders. The goal is that the combination of information, knowledge, and practice leads to the development of skills and behavioral changes—and the adoption of personal and organizational responsibility—for child sexual abuse prevention and intervention.
The “Training Continuum” chart below provides a visual framework for the continuum of information, knowledge, application, and skills that well-designed training programs can support. Trainees need to understand the context of why the training exists and why it’s important—not simply that it’s required by your organization. Information about indicators, symptoms, boundaries, and resources tells your employees and volunteers what to look for, how to recognize sexual abuse and other forms of maltreatment, and to whom to report when it is suspected or observed.
Safe Environments
Along with site safety, visibility issues, physical access, and security procedures, supervision is a critical aspect of creating and maintaining…
Reporting
When a member of your staff suspects that a child is being abused and/or neglected, they are required to immediately call your local Department of…
Safe Environments
Safe Environments should be created by having clear sight lines, proper staff-to-child ratios, and safety standards for all personnel and…
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…
Code of Conduct
For your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) to ensure the safety of the children it serves, there must be a set of principles to guide the environment…
Safe Environments
Ensuring a safe environment for children includes targeting the five major areas of safety: visibility, access, supervision and communication,…
Screening & Hiring
By checking a candidate’s references, you can obtain additional information about applicants and help verify their previous work and volunteer…
Monitoring Behavior
Protocols should be developed in order to inform staff and volunteers about supervision, communication, and reporting procedures at your…
Training
Training should be used to increase knowledge and awareness of child abuse prevention, to teach staff about responding to children who disclose…
Reporting
Physical and Behavioral Indicators of Abuse Type of AbusePhysical IndicatorsBehavioral IndicatorsPhysical Abuse● Unexplained bruises (in…
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