Creating a Culture of Safety: Building Skills to Prevent & Respond to Sexual Misconduct in Schools & Youth Organizations

Building on MassKids’ two highly successful conferences to address child sexual abuse prevention, this fall’s Boston-area event, Creating a Culture of Safety: Building Skills to Prevent & Respond to Sexual Misconduct in Schools & Youth Organizations, on October 16, 2018 will feature a day of skill-building sessions to increase the confidence of school and youth organization leaders to prevent and respond to a range of boundary-violating behaviors on the continuum of employee misconduct. Among the featured topics include how to identify strengths and gaps in your current safe-child policies; train employees using new, effective online training tools and other practical resources; develop a detailed code of conduct that sets clear behavioral boundaries; better screen prospective employees to discourage those with concerning behaviors; engage youth in assessing/modifying the safety of physical spaces; and confidently respond to staff who have been reported to you for boundary violations. Who Should Attend: State education leaders, public school superintendents and principals, heads of private independent schools, leaders of youth-serving organizations, directors of schools of education, trustees, and other strategic decision makers.