Preventing child sexual abuse within youth serving organizations : getting started on policies and procedures

Details

• Personal Author:
  Saul, Janet ; Audage, Natalie C.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.). Division of Violence Prevention.
• Description:
  This report is for workers in youth-related organisations who are interested in adopting strategies to prevent child sexual abuse. It outlines six key components of child sexual abuse prevention within organisations: screening and selecting employees and volunteers; guidelines on interactions between individuals; monitoring behaviour; ensuring safe environments; responding to inappropriate behaviour, breaches in policy, and allegations and suspicions of child sexual abuse; and training. The report describes policies and strategies for each component, discusses potential challenges and barriers and ways these can be overcome, and includes planning tools.
• Subjects:
  Child Abuse, Sexual/prevention & Control Health Education/organization & Administration Organizational Policy Organizations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Collection(s):
  Guidelines and Recommendations
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c8aca0609306b058e0b850468299ff42997fcd1fa4c405065a7decc00720e15ecebb232791abd17bd0b318d3d549c11d2365d3b8148ddc04a1bf0f15f44225e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/7538/cdc_7538_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.57 MB ]