Reporting Suspicions of Abuse
Staff and volunteers should have a detailed understanding of their responsibility to report child abuse and neglect. At your YSO (Youth-Serving…
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Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. However, not every organization is required to or responsible for providing prevention training to the children/youth who attend their programs or utilize their services. In these cases, codes of conduct, mission statements, handouts on rules and regulations, orientation meetings, and other means of communication can be used to define what it means to be safe for children/youth.
If provided by your YSO, personal safety and child sexual abuse prevention training should be age-appropriate to promote child/youth understanding of—and confidence in—your organization’s strategies to keep them safe. Both the Child Welfare Information Gateway and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center have resources available to help you select and evaluate available training programs.
If it’s within the scope of your responsibilities to provide training for children and youth, here are some elements that should be included as you select/adapt your program for this audience:
Critical child sexual abuse information may also be provided through partnerships with local schools or other organizations already providing child sexual abuse prevention training for youth, including:
If your YSO is interested in implementing a child personal safety program, seek information and assistance from other organizations that have already created and implemented one.
Reporting
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