Categories: Youth Protection and Child Safety
December 8, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Vital Partners in Youth Protection: Engaging Parents and Caregivers
You’ve seen it in the news or heard about it through the neighborhood gossip chain, but you hope you’ll never hear the same news again: an appalling allegation of child abuse is uncovered at a trusted nonprofit. Almost anyone would...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
It’s Hard to Talk about Child Abuse
Child sexual abuse is so repulsive, that it is truly difficult to talk about. It is painful to admit that any person would harm a child in such a vulgar, intimate way. The sad truth is that we need to...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Knee-Jerk Risk Management?
Should FBI criminal history record checks be required of individuals who work with children? On the surface, the answer to this question would appear to be a resounding yes. Further analysis, however, reveals that a more conditional endorsement of criminal...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
How Lifestyle Figures in an Appropriate Mentor Match
There is a fine line between gathering the necessary information for making the appropriate match and infringing on the privacy of all parties involved. Yet, the parents’ right to set limits on who they feel is an acceptable match for...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Youth Protection and Child Safety
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Risk Management Strategies for Nonprofits Serving Young Adolescents If youth is the season of hope, it’s often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Protecting Vulnerable Clients from Abuse
This article is an excerpt from a chapter of the Center’s soon-to-be-released publication, Exposed: A Legal Field Guide for Nonprofit Executives, by Melanie Lockwood Herman and Mark E. Chopko. To pre-order a copy of the book, which will be shipped or...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
The Essence of Youth Protection: Rules, Reporting and Consequences
Organizations are obsessed with ferreting out sexual predators and preventing them access to young people. Unfortunately, in their zeal to do this, organizations focus too much on the sexual predator, and not enough on the safety of the children they...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Preventing False Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse
Recently there was a story in The Washington Post about a Montgomery County, MD schoolteacher who had been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by seven sixth grade students. The teacher was immediately suspended and his life was turned upside down. Upon closer...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Play by the Rules or Leave
Violence cannot build a better society. Disruption and disorder nourish repression, not justice. They strike at the freedom of every citizen. The community cannotit will nottolerate coercion and mob rule. — Commission on Civil Disorder, 1968 Violence pervades the lives...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Planning for Summer Fun
The beginning of the summer swim season is just around the corner. Many pools, beaches, lakes and ponds will see high rates of use over the summer weeks. In addition, many nonprofit organizations will sponsor special summer events that involve...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, Youth Protection and Child Safety