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Re: Reporting Abuse/Sexual Abuse Training

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
So as far as adult/student sexual abuse, unless there are jurisdictions or schools that are far behind the times in their policies, protocols and procedures, it would seem to me that an FRC session would be somewhat redundant.

But certainly it never hurts to remind people... adults and students alike.... that there are boundaries that must not be crossed.
Not all teams have teachers helping out, and some teams only have one teacher helping out (like ours). The rest of the mentors are engineers, or mechanics, or some sort of professional outside of teaching. This is where I think the need is.

My opinion is that all mentors on the team should be trained in this, mostly to protect themselves, not just one adult on the team.

But, if there isn't interest, then it's not worth it to organize, so it really depends on what other's opinions are.
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