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Here’s how you can develop a screening policy that fits your organization’s role, size, and resources: Know the screening rules and…
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Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. 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 best practices to incorporate as you build your curriculum:
Programs are successful when they are based on the most current research in prevention education, which tells us that effective programs should:
An effective curriculum:
An effectively presented child safety instruction program:
For more information on abuse prevention curricula for your organization, you can review these resources and reports that have been evaluated for effectiveness.
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Screening & Hiring
Here’s how you can develop a screening policy that fits your organization’s role, size, and resources: Know the screening rules and…
Reporting
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Code of Conduct
A Code of Conduct establishes acceptable and prohibited types of behaviors and interactions between staff, volunteers, and children. Your…
Training
Once you have identified your training expectations and standards and have researched current and available local and national training, explore…
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…
Safe Environments
Ensuring a safe environment for children includes targeting the five major areas of safety: visibility, access, supervision and communication,…
Reporting
Sometimes, a child/youth might self-disclose an abusive situation to an adult in your organization. These disclosures can be direct, where the child…
Reporting
Thinking of children or youth as capable of sexually abusing other children or youth can be difficult to consider and challenging to address. In…
Reporting
All staff must be aware of the warning signs and symptoms of child abuse and neglect, know how to respond appropriately, and report suspected cases…
Policies & Procedures
Whether your organization is evaluating an existing policy or creating a new one, we’ve provided a convenient Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (CSA)…
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