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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

Support Victim Survivors

לִמְדוּ הֵיטֵב דִּרְשׁוּ מִשְׁפָּט אַשְּׁרוּ חָמוֹץ

Learn to do good. Devote yourself to justice; aid the victim. (Isaiah 1:17)

Jews are reminded in the Book of Isaiah that we are responsible for supporting and strengthening victim-survivors. When victim-survivors experience an organization as welcoming and trauma-informed, they are more likely to attend, share, heal together, and participate. In learning how to support victim-survivors, communities gain critical skills in trauma-informed engagement, which allows our organizations to welcome more people and do more good.

This Best Practice will help your organization intentionally design supportive spaces for your entire community, including those who have experienced youth maltreatment or other forms of abuse.

Acknowledge victim-survivors during prayer services or other communal gatherings

Sample: Introductions to Prayers

Sample: Introductions to Prayers

Acknowledge victim-survivors in your community during prayer services or communal gatherings with these trauma-informed introductions to communal prayers.
Video: “The Rabbit Listened” by Cori Doerrfeld

Video: “The Rabbit Listened” by Cori Doerrfeld

Use this children’s book about empathy and kindness with people of all ages to reflect on and plan for compassionate responses to another’s pain.   Length: 3 minutes (more…)

Companion Resources

Facilitator’s Guide: “The Rabbit Listened”

Facilitator’s Guide: “The Rabbit Listened”

Use this guide to lead a group in conversation about The Rabbit Listened.

Learn how to respond to disclosures of maltreatment in ways that prioritize and promote healing.

Video: Safety Respect Equity Network’s “Responding to Disclosures”

Video: Safety Respect Equity Network’s “Responding to Disclosures”

Learn how to respond in a trauma-informed manner when receiving adults’ disclosures of maltreatment in their youth. (more…)

Companion Resources

Reference List: Responding to Disclosures Webinar

Reference List: Responding to Disclosures Webinar

These are the references from the training. Created by Dr. Guila Benchimol for the SRE Network.
Training Videos: Recognizing and Responding to Youth Disclosures

Training Videos: Recognizing and Responding to Youth Disclosures

Learn how to recognize that a youth is disclosing maltreatment and understand the steps you should take in response. (more…)
Guide: Recognizing and Responding to Youth Disclosures

Guide: Recognizing and Responding to Youth Disclosures

Use this guidance in addition to the training videos to prepare to receive a youth’s disclosures of maltreatment.

Companion Resources

Group Activity: The Dos and Don’ts to Receiving Disclosures

Group Activity: The Dos and Don’ts to Receiving Disclosures

Practice the skills you learned in the training videos and guide.