*NEW RULES for Texas Youth Camps [effective May 16, 2010]
Resources Available To Abuse Prevention Systems Members
Skillful Screening Forms
Prior to focusing on child sexual abuse, Kimberlee Norris practiced in employment law. Equipped with this experience, MinistrySafe offers the most comprehensive screening strategies and forms. It is our opinion that a fine tuned screening process is far more effective than even the best background check.
- Sexual Abuser Characteristics
- Allowing Abusers to “Opt-Out”
- Key Risk Indicators
- Volunteer Application (designed to elicit high-risk responses)
- Applicant Statements and Agreed Code of Conduct (employees and volunteers)
- Safety Application (for employees and volunteers)
- Safety Application – description of high-risk and low-risk responses
- Sample Interview Form
- Interview – description of high-risk and low-risk responses
- Interview – follow-up questions to evasive or high-risk responses
- Reference Form – for use by mail
- Reference Form – for use by telephone
- Sample Cover Letter for Reference Form
Resources Available To APS Members - Schools
Policies & Procedures
Schools will customarily have comprehensive handbooks dealing with many things, including medical leave, smoking and jury duty. Rarely, however, will a school have specific policies and procedures designed to protect young people from sexual abuse. MinistrySafe’s comprehensive policies and procedures have been crafted to realistically fit the programming of most schools.
Skillful Screening Forms
Prior to focusing on child sexual abuse, Kimberlee Norris specialized in employment law. Equipped with this experience, MinistrySafe offers the most comprehensive screening strategies and forms. It is our opinion that a fine tuned screening process is far more effective than even the best background check. MinistrySafe recognizes that the hiring and screening process at a school is unique. There is a slightly different process depending on whether the applicant is faculty/staff, non-faculty employee, substitute or volunteer teacher (just because a teacher is a volunteer does not mean that the volunteer teacher avoids the screening process … the issue is whether that person has access to children, not whether he/she is paid).
Faculty / Staff
- Faculty/Staff Documents Checklist
- Teacher/Employment Application
- Safety Application
- Reference Form
- Interview Form
- Applicant Statement of Agreed Code of Conduct
- New Hire Reporting Form (if in Texas)
- I-9 Form
- W-4 Form
Non-Faculty Employee
- Non-Faculty Documents Checklist
- Employment Application
- Safety Application
- Reference Form
- Applicant Statement of Agreed Code of Conduct
- W-4 Form
- New Hire Reporting Form (if in Texas)
- I-9 Form
Substitutes
- Substitutes Documents Checklist
- Employment Application
- Safety Application
- Reference Form
- Interview Form
- Applicant Statement of Agreed Code of Conduct
- W-4 Form
- New Hire Reporting Form (if in Texas)
- I-9 Form
Volunteer
- Volunteers Documents Checklist
- Safety Application
- Reference Form
- Interview Form
- Volunteer Statement of Agreed Code of Conduct
Criminal Background Checks
We do not offer background checks but we do offer invaluable information regarding the ineffectiveness of the average background check. Background checks offer a false sense of security and extraordinary liability. Educate yourself in order to make a more informed decision.
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Insurance
The need for prevention and training is real. Everyday, new stories of ministries gone awry derail the evangelical mission and get in the way of reaching the churched and the unchurched. These news stories represent merely a fraction of reported criminal and civil cases revealing sexual predators within the Church and Christian ministries.
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Links
Texas Attorney General's Office
What Can We Do About Child Abuse?
The National Sex Offender Website
National Sex Offender Registry
The Texas Sex Offender Registry
Texas Legislation Regarding Abuse
Texas Family Code §261
Texas Youth Camp Act
Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 265