Keeping Kids Safe Training 

The Keeping Kids Safe training is designed to make the topic of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (CSAP) accessible, clear, and focused on simple steps staff can take to keep children safe. This training will teach staff knowledge, practical skills, language, and tools to create safer environments for children and prevent child sexual abuse. Utilizing video, discussion, small group work, and attendee polling, we will address assessing safe environments, working with parents, prevention strategies, protective factors, signs and symptoms of abuse, and responding to disclosures.  

In this workshop we will also discuss how to identify concrete ways your program can evaluate and develop policies, procedures, and protocols to prevent sexual abuse. Using the Safe Kids Thrive website (see safekidsthrive.org), we will demonstrate practical and straightforward tools attendees can use to assess or create their own plan to promote child safety.

Learning objectives:

1. Learn about the problem of child abuse and neglect, specifically child sexual abuse..
2. Participants will review how to recognize, respond, and report child abuse.
3. Participants will build awareness of tools, resources, model documents, and practices that prevent child abuse in youth-serving organizations.

Participants will plan next steps for their own work using a policy self-audit tool on SafeKidsThrive.org and group discussion.