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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

Assess your Space

וְיÖøשַׁב עַמּ֓י בּ֓נְוֵה שׁÖøלוֹם וּבְמ֓שְׁכְּנוֹ×Ŗ מ֓בְטַח֓ים וּב֓מְנוּחֹ×Ŗ שַׁאֲנַנּוֹ×Ŗ

My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. (Isaiah 32:18)

Through intentional design, our organizations can be partners in Isaiah’s promise of a Jewish people abiding ā€œin a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.ā€ This Best Practice will help you evaluate and improve the safety of your physical and virtual spaces. Your organization will learn how to decrease risk of youth maltreatment in vulnerable areas by carefully arranging spaces and utilizing supervision.

Ground improvements to your spacesā€™ safety in Jewish values.

Companion Resources

Handout: Essay on Ancient Models and Contemporary Takeaways around Safety

Handout: Essay on Ancient Models and Contemporary Takeaways around Safety

Read this discussion of archaeological space in ancient Jewish life, and learn ways in which structure and design choices can shape experience, convey values, and enhance safety in your organization.
Facilitatorā€™s Guide: Safety Models and Takeaways Essay

Facilitatorā€™s Guide: Safety Models and Takeaways Essay

Use this facilitatorā€™s guide to apply the values, questions, and ideas from the essay within your space.

Conduct a site assessment to identify necessary safeguards in your spaces.

Guide: Introduction to Core Assessment Principles

Guide: Introduction to Core Assessment Principles

Understand visibility and access as core guiding principles for assessing your organization's physical and virtual spaces.
Guide: High-Risk Spaces

Guide: High-Risk Spaces

Learn recommended safeguards for high-risk spaces.
Guide: Protocols for Safeguarding Children and Teens in Online Communications

Guide: Protocols for Safeguarding Children and Teens in Online Communications

Learn how to apply youth safeguarding principles to your organization's online programming.
Video: Virtual Safeguards Training

Video: Virtual Safeguards Training

Watch this training video to learn key principles and tactics of safeguarding in a virtual environment, and create an action plan for your organization. (more…)

Companion Resources

Handout: Virtual Safeguards Training

Handout: Virtual Safeguards Training

Use this worksheet alongside the training video to guide a group in learning about online safeguarding and creating your action plan.