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Unread 14-11-2010, 11:21
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Re: Reporting Abuse/Sexual Abuse Training

I have attended training workshops sponsored by "Friends for Youth, Inc" based in Redwood City CA. They have excellent presentations containing some very sobering statistics. Here is one presentation: http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_1252.pdf

One of the quotes that sticks with me is from a cop who said 'I have investigated hundreds of predators cases involving thousands of victims. In almost every case there was a woman who said something like "I thought something wasn't right."

Friends of Youth has a paperback titled "SAFE" Screening Applicants for Effectiveness: Guidelines to Prevent Child Molestation in Mentoring and Youth-Serving Organizations" containing various tools and resources.

Other resources include a "Document Kit CD" with examples of documentation necessary to implement best practices into a mentoring program, as well as Webinairs.

A challenge for FIRST is that there is no one way a team is created and run. But there is enough literature out there to create some "best practices" examples to help teams and the adults involved do the right thing.
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Last edited by RoboMom : 14-11-2010 at 15:18. Reason: added ppt link + removed statistics/changed last sentence.
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