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Re: Reporting Abuse/Sexual Abuse Training
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
In this training/training proposal - is there anything written that helps to protect mentors from false accusations? That's the flip side of this.
Jane
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I would have to talk to the group/person who would lead the training (that I propose to organize) about focusing on adults working with teenagers, because the training that I attended recently was definitely based more for adults working with children between the ages of 1-12 (where most cases are NOT false accusations). Still, the training did have an emphasis on protecting yourself from false accusations. In all honesty, for most of us working with high school students, this would be the main concern. And the best thing to do is to avoid one-to-one time with students. If it can not be avoided, make sure that one-to-one time is in a public place where anyone can drop in at any time. Hopefully this is a practice already in place for all teams.
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