Safe Church Basics Step 1 Webinar: Assessing Risk

2022 Webinar Series: The Safe Church Basics

For our 2022 webinar series Safe Church went Back to the Basics of abuse prevention, awareness, and response by sharing five steps to becoming a safer church. All of the 2022 Safe Church Basics Webinars can be viewed at YouTube.com/SafeChurchMinistry. Please "Like" or "Subscribe" to the channel, if you haven't already.

This was the first step, focused on assessing risk which happened on March 23rd, 2022.

The webinar recording can be viewed at our YouTube Channel's Safe Church Basics Playlist here.

March 2022 Webinar: The Safe Church Basics - Step 1: Assessing Risk

• Do you feel overwhelmed by the task of making your church safe from abuse? 
• Are you struggling with identifying what more your church can do to prevent and respond to abuse?
• Watch this webinar as a panel considers several hypothetical abuse scenarios that demonstrate how similar situations have impacted Christian Reformed Church communities throughout North America.
• Also, we introduce a new tool Safe Church called the Safe Church Assessment (read more about it here) which is designed to assess risk and help determine how your church can do better in preventing abuse. 

This webinar featured the following panel:

• Dr. Amanda Benckhuysen (Safe Church),
• Rev. Sean Baker (Pastor Church Resources),
• Dr. Tara Boer (Prof. of Social Work, Dordt University & Classis Safe Church Coordinator)
• Rev. Eric Kas: Host (Safe Church)