Sexual Abuse Awareness & Safety Protocols
Training
Why is Sexual Abuse Awareness & Safety Protocols Training important?
For many volunteers and staff members, Sexual Abuse Awareness Training will be the most significant experience they have with Abuse Prevention Systems and Safety Protocols.
Many believe that child sexual abuse can’t happen in their organization, or that no one they know could be an abuser. This illusion of safety is often found in schools, camps and other children’s programs.
This illusion is dangerous to both the organization and the children it serves.
Sexual abusers find those places where the barriers of protection are lowest, where people are more trusting and where fewer barriers exist between service applicants and children. Abuse Prevention & Safety Protocols Systems helps ‘raise the bar’ in children’s programs, and the first step is to better understand the problem.
When volunteers and staff members learn the facts, they are better able to protect children in their care.
What do we need to know to protect our children?
Sexual Abuse & Safety Protocols Awareness Training is key in equipping staff members and volunteers to better understand the risk of child sexual abuse.
Typically, our beliefs are shaped by our personal experience, the experiences of our friends and family and the media. For most of us, sexual abuse of children is not a reality we want to confront, so many of us choose to remain uninformed.
Media coverage is incomplete, leaving us with an inaccurate picture of the scope, breadth or shape of child sexual abuse.
To better protect children, we must realize that the problem is significant and growing, and that abusers have no visual profile.
How can we protect our children?
Sexual Abuse & Safety Protocols Awareness Training provides the first step in Abuse Prevention Systems."
Industry-Specific Awareness Training
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Camps
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Schools
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Youth Sports
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Foster Care & Adoption
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Child Services
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Daycares & Preschools
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Ministries
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Community Based Organizations
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Military Children Special Victim Advocates
Child Age Eligibility – 0-21yrs
Services and Support
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Provide emotional support;
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Provide safety planning and strategies to prevent harm;
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Provide victims’ rights information;
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Meet regularly with child and parent/guardian as appropriate to facilitate treatment and healing, and third-party service and support;
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Attend medical, counseling, and therapy appointments, and group sessions as appropriate;
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Attend interviews, depositions, and court proceedings and hearings;
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File motions and protective orders if licensed attorney in state in question or coordinate the filing of said motions, etc. with licensed
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Work with prosecutors, paralegals, court personnel, and social workers
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Crisis management
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Screening Process Protocol
When an organization serves children, that organization accepts responsibility for the children in its care. Screening job applicants and volunteers is an important responsibility for managers, coordinators and administrators, but how can we distinguish between a dangerous individual and an appropriate candidate ready to serve?
Is it possible to keep the wolf out of the sheep pen?
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Child sexual abuse is an ‘equal opportunity employer’—it cuts across all demographics, racial profiles, socioeconomics, geographic areas and age groups.
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Both men and women commit child sexual abuse.
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There are no visual indicators that someone is a molester, or will become one.
Less than 10 percent of child sexual abusers are criminally prosecuted; 90 percent, therefore, have no criminal history to check.
Hiring and screening personnel must be trained to recognize high-risk responses, which indicate that an individual may be a danger to children.
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