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1. Form a Youth Safeguarding Committee

2. Create Opportunities for Community Dialogue

3. Screen Employees & Volunteers

4. Assess Your Space

5. Implement Guidelines for Interacting with Youth

6. Train Adults in Safeguarding Practices

7. Support Victim Survivors

8. Protocols for Responding to Youth Maltreatment

9. Engage Youth in Safeguarding Efforts

10. Maintain & Evaluate your Youth Safeguarding Program

1. Form a Youth
Safety Committee

2. Create
Opportunities for Community Dialogue

3. Screen Employees
and Volunteers

4. Assess Your Space

5. Implement Guidelines for Interacting with Youth

6. Train Adults

7. Support
Victim-Survivors

8. Develop Protocols
for Responding

9. Empower Youth

10. Maintain &
Evaluate your Child
Safety Program

Train Adults in Safeguarding Practices

וְהַחוּט הַמְשֻׁלָּשׁ לֹא בִמְהֵרָה יִנָּתֵק

The threefold cord will not quickly be broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12)

We learn from Ecclesiastes “the threefold cord will not quickly be broken.” When more adults in a community understand how to safeguard youth, more members of that community are able to uphold agreed-upon safeguarding norms and model safe behavior as a united front. While each educated individual is one critical thread in achieving this goal, the ripple effect of intentional community-wide adult education regarding youth maltreatment creates a tightly knit cord. This Best Practice will help you expand your circle of community members who are educated about maltreatment and proper safeguarding protocols.

Identify who needs training and what types of training they need, and make a plan for delivering it.

Video: Educate

Video: Educate

Learn what it means to educate adults in your community about how to safeguard youth. Presented by Shira Berkovits, President & CEO of Sacred Spaces. (more…)
Guide: Creating a Training Plan

Guide: Creating a Training Plan

Learn factors that impact an effective training plan.

Companion Resources

Sample: Creating a Training Plan

Sample: Creating a Training Plan

Use this Excel version of the sample Training Chart found in the guide as the starting point for creating your organization's plan. (more…)
Sample: Training Policy Language

Sample: Training Policy Language

Use this sample language to codify your training plan into a policy, cementing your organization’s commitment to ongoing learning.
Guide: Coordinating Formal Trainings

Guide: Coordinating Formal Trainings

A list of key youth safeguarding topics on which you might train and sample questions to ask in vetting outside trainers.

Use these resources to train your community members to:

  • Know your safeguarding policies and their role in implementing them
  • Model safe behavior
  • Identify problematic behavior and intervene immediately
  • Receive and respond to children’s disclosures of maltreatment
  • De-escalate problematic situations and follow up with appropriate protocols
Training Video: Overview of Child Maltreatment

Training Video: Overview of Child Maltreatment

As a committee, watch this training for Jewish community leaders to learn about the prevalence, risk factors, and indicators of youth maltreatment. Length: 67:14  

Companion Resources

Facilitator’s Guide: Training Video “When Faith Hurts: Recognizing and Responding to the Sin of Child Abuse”

Facilitator’s Guide: Training Video “When Faith Hurts: Recognizing and Responding to the Sin of Child Abuse”

Use this facilitator’s guide to lead your committee in a discussion of the training video.
Handout: Training Video “When Faith Hurts: Recognizing and Responding to the Sin of Child Abuse.”

Handout: Training Video “When Faith Hurts: Recognizing and Responding to the Sin of Child Abuse.”

Give copies of this handout to each committee member to support your facilitated discussion of the training video.
Training Videos: Child Safeguarding Topics

Training Videos: Child Safeguarding Topics

Use these video resources as part of your training plan. (more…)
Training Video: Receiving Disclosures of Youth Maltreatment

Training Video: Receiving Disclosures of Youth Maltreatment

Learn how to receive a disclosure of youth maltreatment. Presented by Shira Berkovits, President & CEO of Sacred Spaces. (more…)

Companion Resources

Training Powerpoint: Receiving Disclosures of Youth Maltreatment

Training Powerpoint: Receiving Disclosures of Youth Maltreatment

Accompanying slides for the Receiving Disclosures training video.
Guide: Receiving Disclosures

Guide: Receiving Disclosures

Learn how to recognize when a youth is disclosing maltreatment, and the dos and don’ts for responding to their disclosure.