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… a disturbing trend: churches that have implemented policies but then have become careless in maintaining them. … is to help churches not only write their initial policy but maintain active abuse prevention programs, … Abuse Prevention: Policies Are Just the First Step …
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… to ask as a church as they consider creating their own policy on sexual harassment. It is strongly encouraged that churches research the state/province policies as a guideline. As the #metoo movement has grown at … Does My Church Need a Sexual Harassment Policy? …
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… will experience many benefits if they adopt a disability policy and appoint a church disability advocate: Obedience to … Luke 14:13-14 will benefit greatly from committing to a policy and appointing an advocate. Assistance for church … Churches to Appoint Disability Advocate, Adopt Disability Policy …
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… toolkit to assist in creating and revising safe church policies. One part of this new tool is to have a larger database of great policies that are already being used. We would love to have … Your Help Needed! Share Your Safe Church Policies and Resources …
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… all of our problems, in this critical time for climate policy in Canada, it provides an essential impetus for … set in Paris. This critical time of recreating climate policy is key in encouraging and enabling all of us to care. … Time for the Hard Work: Critical Time for Climate Policy …
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… Honesty, Is It Really the Best Policy? …
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… when Anchor of Hope Church began creating a safe church policy. I thought a policy would interfere with ministry freedom. It seemed like … Chicago and Grand Rapids, but not for me. The idea of a policy felt like someone was telling me that I was unsafe. I …
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… training for your chaperones and the needed guidelines and policies to support them in carrying out their volunteer … review any risks and go over any related guidelines and policies. Discuss the events and activities and decide how …
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… September came quickly, which, according to our Safe Church policy, meant that it was time to offer an annual training. … say we had never held a training on our actual Safe Church policy. We had, maybe about 6 years ago. And quite honestly, … overhead screen. We also left 1 to 2 paper copies of the policies on each table as a reference and used fake flower …
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… resources to advocate for (or against) specific public policies and political actions if at least one of the following 3 criteria is met: 1) The policy or action is specifically addressed by Scripture . An example of this would be policy concerning abortion and euthanasia, because Scripture …
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… God’s love and protectiveness for children into policies and practices based on their Biblical and … values. Many congregations have child protection policies and training “mandated” by their denominations; like … up the dry bones and calls churches to turn from lifeless policies that require “compliance” to a fully awake process …
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… effectively. Prevention strategies include safe church policies; as well as prevention programs for children and … safe church ministry: 1. Every church has a written safety policy in place which includes: •Screening by all staff and … aware of, committed to, and regularly trained in the policy •Accountability and consequences for those who do not …