What You Will Learn

This is the first of three courses walking you through how to create a strong child protection policy for your youth organization.

Before you can write a strong child protection policy, you have to know what you're working with. The first 30 days are about honest assessment and smart preparation. You'll connect child protection to your organization's core mission, survey your governing documents and culture, identify your standards of care sources, and form the two essential teams — your Child Safety Team and Incident Response Team — who will carry this work forward.

You'll audit what you already have: existing policies, gaps in screening, supervision practices, and incident response procedures. You'll work through legal definitions of abuse and how they compare to your current language, map your visitor and access controls, and build the staffing structure — including a Child Safety Coordinator — needed to sustain this work. By the end of Day 30, you won't have a finished policy, but you'll have something more valuable: a clear picture of where you stand and a team ready to move.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Before we begin...

    1. Overview of the First 30 Days

    2. Overview for Your Organization

    3. Sources of Information for the Standard of Care

    4. Standard of Care for Your Organization

    5. Auditing Governing Documents & Surveying Staff

    6. Your Organization's Governing Documents and Surveys

    1. Introduction to Teams

    2. Bringing Together Your Teams

    3. Child Safety Coordinator and Child Safety Team

    4. Finding Your CSC & CST

    5. Incident Response Team

    6. Finding Your IRT

    7. Introduction to Initial Audit

    8. Conducting Your Initial Audit

    1. Auditing Definitions

    2. Auditing Your Definitions

    3. Auditing Access to Young People

    4. Auditing Access that You Allow

    5. Auditing Screening Policies

    6. Auditing Your Screening Policies

    1. Auditing Boundary Policies

    2. Auditing Your Boundary Policies

    3. Response Team Audits

    4. Your Response Team Audits

    1. Test Your Learning

    2. More Resources

    3. Before you go...

About this course

  • $27.00
  • 3.0 hours of video and worksheets
  • 3 hours American Camp Association CECs
  • Offers 0.4 ANCI/IACET credits

As an IACET Accredited Provider, YSO Academy offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
The American Camp Association has endorsed this course for 3.0 Continuing Education Credits.

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