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Strangers are not the main offenders when it comes to child sexual abuse. Children and youth are much more likely to be abused by people they know and trust. That’s why you need an organizational training strategy on child sexual abuse prevention, to decrease the chances that a child will be harmed.
The purpose of a Training Toolkit is to support your organization in planning, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining your training programs. The tools, resources, and strategies described below will help you engage a variety of training participants, maintain a focus on desired competencies, and evaluate for training goals. You can find even more information here.
Adult training programs strive to educate adults in the community about child sexual abuse prevention and their responsibility for preventing abuse from occurring in the first place. Training programs for adults must be firmly grounded in Adult Learning Theory—which describes the most effective ways in which adult learners acquire and retain information—and must provide participants with strategies and tools that can be easily implemented. Training must be offered in a variety of formats and be considerate of scheduling conflicts and varied learning styles.
Regular training should be offered so that new employees can be trained before having access to children/youth. You could achieve this through a combination of online training and collaborations with other local youth-serving organizations. Training must be available in multiple languages and be culturally relevant.
Screening & Hiring
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Monitoring Behavior
Your organization will need to be prepared to respond to interactions observed among youth and between employees/volunteers and youth. With a…
Safe Environments
Physically safe spaces, with proper supervision, are required to maintain safety standards at your Youth-Serving Organization (YSO). Ensure policies…
Training
Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. Personal safety and child…
Safe Environments
How is Your Facility Designed to Keep Children Safe? Child development and school-age programs operate in many different types of facilities….
Reporting
Effective reporting structures rely on staff and volunteers’ recognition of signs and symptoms of sexual abuse. The Youth-Serving Organization…
Screening & Hiring
A written application provides you with the information you need to assess the background and interests of applicants for your organization’s paid…
Screening & Hiring
Finding staff and volunteers you can trust to work with children includes additional steps beyond interviewing and checking references. …
Screening & Hiring
To strengthen your screening and hiring process, you can use the questions in Thinking About Risk to make decisions about what additional background…
Safe Environments
Along with site safety, visibility issues, physical access, and security procedures, supervision is a critical aspect of creating and maintaining…
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