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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.
The following organizations have been successfully used by CRC congregations and ministries to help secure background checks.
These educational resources will help you begin talking with young adults about healthy sexuality.
What concrete steps can each congregation be doing to make your church a safer place? These ten guidelines offer a helpful place to start.
A “partnership with” model of power is not about being nice, nor does it come about overnight. We start with safe spaces where we can talk about the construction of gender roles, power differentials, and the changing social values.
Based in Seattle, the Faith Trust Institute is a faith-based organization that provides written and video resources for the prevention of sexual assault, domestic violence, and church leader misconduct.
Safe Church encourages churches that are working with ex-offenders to develop a covenant of conduct with the individual. Included are sample policies and a discussion about the importance of this process.
As a supplement to the Safe Church Policy Toolkit, we are providing these sample policies as examples of what other churches use as their abuse prevention policies.
Safe Church Ministry shares a customizable Social Media Policy from Protect Young Eyes, an organization helping families, schools, and churches create safer digital environments.
Safe Church highlights resources for Youth Ministry, Social Media, and Online Streaming.
A 2020 update on the ongoing development of the Code of Conduct for Ministry Leaders in the Christian Reformed Church.
This article includes an update of the actions that have taken place in response to the adoptions made at Synod 2019 regarding the Abuse of Power Report.
As we connect online in the midst of a global quarantine, are we being safe? Are we keeping our children safe? This article offers resources to respond to these very important questions.
View the video recording and the highlights of Safe Church's August 26th webinar with Boz Tchividjian, founder of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment).
https://network.crcna.org/safe-church/sample-safe-church-policiesSafe church policies help protect the most vulnerable among us, especially our children from the devastating effects of abuse.