CSA Best PracticesTM Training To Stop Child Sexual Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations
Child molesters seek access to our kids. Youth serving organizations inherently provide that opportunity. Therefore, child molesters will want to work for you.
Abuse happens in faith organizations, sports leagues, schools, and non-profit organizations. In fact, research shows that fully 20% of our children are sexually abused before the age of 18. How will you protect kids from being sexually abused under these circumstances? Now, there is a way for you to transform your organization into a place where molesters can’t – and don’t want to – work.
Child abuse is preventable.
With an estimated 39 million survivors of child sexual abuse in America, there is a wealth of knowledge about behavior patterns that appear BEFORE abuse occurs. With the right training, you can learn to set and enforce boundaries that make it virtually impossible for these “grooming behaviors” to be used. Predators will choose to go elsewhere.TAALK’s CSA Best Practices Training is the first program of its kind for youth serving organizations. It teaches you to create an environment where child molesters cannot succeed. This program clearly defines boundaries that, when followed, will significantly reduce the risk of a child being sexually abused while in your care. Most importantly, when adopted as a formal policy, our CSA Best Practices empower management, staff, parents and children to be objective in their enforcement, without being swayed by any individual based on trust, respect, power, status or money. The policy applies equally to all.
To find out whether the CSA Best Practices Training is right for your organization, complete the form below to request a free 30 minute phone consultation with a TAALK Staff Member.
You will learn to…
- Create an environment where molesters can’t and don’t want to work
- Model safe and appropriate behavior for children in your care
- Set up an accountability team between your staff and parents
- Teach kids to expect CSA Best Practices boundaries to be set and honored
- Recognize common behavior patterns (grooming signs) in child molesters
- Watch for the signs that a child has been abused
- Talk comfortably about the issue of child sexual abuse
Your Organization will be asked to…
- Establish Board/Executive level responsibility and accountability for CSA Best Practices within your organization.
- Implement a comprehensive staff/volunteer screening process that is focused on the protection of children, rather than on finding the most qualified applicants.
- Establish boundaries that limit access and risky behavior, providing a framework for objective decision-making for boundary infractions that apply to everyone who comes in contact with children in your care.
- Adopt standards for responding to abuse and for monitoring compliance with CSA Best Practices
The CSA Best Practices Training includes:
- A workbook style CSA Best Practices training guide that delivers information, creates a thought provoking experience for individual staff members and serves as the basis for interactive communication between members in your organization.
- On-line multi-media training for staff members covering all key aspects of the child sexual abuse epidemic as well as the CSA Best Practices recommended to protect children. This training has embedded testing to track completion and understanding of program materials. Detail reporting will be provided.
- Recommended education approaches for parents. Optional* on-line multi-media training for parents covering all key aspects of the child sexual abuse epidemic as well as the CSA Best Practices recommended to protect children is available. If this option is selected, detailed reporting will be provided.
- Recommended educational approaches for children.
The CSA Best Practices Training is a self-certification program. In order to certify that the training has been completed, the organization must submit the following documents to TAALK for review:
- Updated ByLaws or other documentation defining executive level responsibility for CSA Best Practices
- A written policy adopting CSA Best Practices (samples provided)
- Letter of Certification that all current staff members have completed the on-line multi-media training and that newly hired staff members will also complete the mandatory training.
- Letter of Certification that Best Practices Policy training has been offered to all parents.
- Letter of Certification that the Best Practices Boundaries have been communicated to children and incorporated in program delivery for on-going reinforcement.
Organizations that have completed the CSA Best Practices Training will receive a badge for use on their website and a printed certificate both of which may be displayed to promote your organization’s knowledge and commitment to protecting children from sexual abuse.
1-10 employees $250
1-25 employees $500
26-100 employees $1,000
101-500 employees $2,500
500+ employees Priced to suit
Updated training must be completed on an annual basis for the organization to be considered current. Updated materials will be available each year for a maintenance fee of 20% of your organization’s Year One costs.
* Optional on-line multi-media training is available for parents for $5 per participant.
Our silence enables child molesters.
This program is designed to give you the knowledge, confidence and courage to break the silence that puts our kids at risk. You will…- Empower other adults to hold each other mutually accountable
- Teach kids “the language of abuse” and give them permission to tell
- Put offenders on notice that our kids are off limits
To find out whether the CSA Best Practices Training is right for your organization, complete the form below to request a free 30 minute phone consultation with a TAALK Staff Member.
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