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Back to School: Back to Screening
Get started on your screening today! Your congregation will be a safer place because of your efforts.
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August 19, 2013
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Response and Prevention Both
Should regular boundary training be required for CRC pastors? Should the CRC adopt a code of ethical conduct for its pastors?
August 13, 2013
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Cyber-bullying: How to Protect Our Kids
In my community, the tragic consequences of cyber-bullying have been front page news.
July 22, 2013
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Abuse Prevention: What’s That?
This short video and another helpful webinar will educate your congregation about abuse prevention and why it matters.
July 2, 2013
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VBS? Make Safety Part of the Plan!
"What could possibly happen when you combine a little glue and glitter along with energetic kids and well-meaning volunteers?" A bit of planning will ensure that the environment you provide is secure and safe for all of the children who attend your VBS.
June 27, 2013
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Preventing Sexual Assault
Remember that being in this situation is not your fault! Be true to yourself.
June 19, 2013
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Teaching Boys to Respect Girls: Why It Matters
"Maybe we’ve focused so much on trying to keep children from becoming victims that we’ve forgotten to teach them not to be perpetrators." Let’s stop assuming that children know these values intuitively and realize we need to teach them explicitly.
June 11, 2013
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Safe Church Ministry: News You Can Use
Now is the time to think and prepare for next year.
June 3, 2013
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Adults with Disabilities: Abuse Prevention Tools
"These are the ‘CAPE-abilities’ that can interrupt and prevent abusive behavior and help those recover who have experienced abuse." - World Institute on Disability
May 27, 2013
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Children with Disabilities and Vulnerability to Abuse
Children living with disabilities are more likely to be abused. An article states that one in three children with an identified disability for which they receive special education services are victims of some type of maltreatment compared to one in 10 nondisabled children.
May 13, 2013
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Signs of Emotional Abuse
An emotional abuser intentionally and repeatedly threatens or says harsh words to wear another person down. Once worn down, the victim will try to avoid hearing the threats or nasty words again by doing what the abuser asks.
May 7, 2013
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Vulnerability, Adults & Abuse
Churches and caring individuals can help stop elder abuse and mistreatment in their families and the community. Stand up for vulnerable adults in your neighborhoods and congregation.
May 2, 2013
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What is a Classical Safe Church Team?
Synod has encouraged each classis to have a Safe Church team made up of representatives from each church. The team is a resource to churches, can support local churches in creating safety at the congregational level and empowers churches to be a support to individuals affected by abuse.
April 22, 2013
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Questions Children Ask About Abuse
Explain to children that, if they think that they are being abused, they need to tell someone they trust. Urge them never to keep abuse a secret, even if the person hurting them tells them that something bad will happen if they tell.
April 15, 2013
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An Ounce of Prevention
Abuse is not always physical or sexual; there are many other ways that power and control can be maintained in a relationship.
April 2, 2013
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Teen Dating Violence: What Church Leaders Need to Know
“Dating violence refers to a pattern of actual or threatened acts of physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse perpetrated by an adolescent against a current or former dating partner.”
March 26, 2013
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Power, Love, and the Cross
Power can control many things in your life, but it cannot control, or bring you, the love you seek.
March 18, 2013
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What can Organizations do to Prevent Sexual Abuse?
"Part of the work is ensuring that boundaries are established and maintained, the harm of sexual abuse is understood, and healthy relationships are actively talked about. Each of these is essential to prevention.”
March 12, 2013
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Child Abuse Prevention Resource Kit from Dove's Nest
Dove's Nest has created resources to help churches focus on the role they can play in child abuse prevention.
March 4, 2013
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Churches: Make a Plan for How to Deal with Abuse Allegations
"Often, ministers want to resolve such matters internally through counseling with the victim or the alleged offender, without contacting civil authorities.” Richard R. Hammar goes on to explain that “such a response can have serious legal consequences.”
February 26, 2013
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Education is the Best Prevention
We can begin to prevent abuse by starting at an early age to teach our children respect for themselves and for one another; and by helping them learn what to do in situations that feel unsafe.
February 18, 2013
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How to Talk to a Child About Abuse
“Remember that you can do more harm by supplying a child with words and ideas. Let the child tell her own story and give you the answers.”
February 13, 2013
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Child Abuse: Top Ten Prevention Tips
“Too often, intervention occurs only after abuse is reported. Greater investments are needed in programs that have proven to stop abuse before it occurs – such as family counseling and mandatory parenting education.” - Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies
January 28, 2013
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V-Day, What Would Jesus Do?
We can let people know that we are Christians who care about abuse, who want to see it end, and so does Jesus.
January 21, 2013
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Stalking: It Happens in Christian Communities, Too
How much do you know about stalking? Take this interactive quiz.