YOUTH SERVICES AND CHILD CARE
Resources to Enhance Safety and Protect the Youth
Keep your organization — and the children under your care — safe with the following resources.
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Keeping Kids Safe in Commercial Child Care Centers
Safety is the top priority when it comes to choosing a child care center. Join us for an important discussion as attorney Bill Mitchell identifies exposures present at commercial child care centers and ways to keep your children safe. Topics will focus on hazards ranging from playground safety and door finger pinch guards to attendance/medication logs and abuse and molestation.
Protecting Your Child Care Facility With Door Hinge Guards
Owning and running a child care is a huge undertaking and commitment. The most important part of your job every day is keeping the children at your center safe and free from harm, both physically and emotionally.
5 Safety Tips for Reducing Risk at Child Care Centers
While running a child care center can be extremely rewarding, accidents can happen in the blink of an eye. Watch this video to learn five safety tips that can reduce the likelihood of an injury occurring at your premises.
Safety Tips for Specialty Educators, Trainers and Instructors
As an educator, trainer or instructor, your main focus is on enhancing the skills and abilities of others. While you want to avoid injuries at all costs, you may not have time to consider every situation that could lead to an accident. By implementing the following...
Best Practices for Employee and Volunteer Screenings
Nonprofits depend on employees and volunteers to keep their operations running smoothly. However, new employees can put the physical and emotional safety of your current staff, the populations you serve, and your organization’s reputation and productivity at risk....
Child Care Safety Checklist for Your Center
This checklist was created to be used as a safety awareness tool. Review it to reflect on your business’s current practices and learn ways to make your environment safer for children.
Child Abuse Prevention
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
Online Resource
The CDC’s guide provides policies and procedures for screening employees and volunteers and interactions between individuals; monitoring behavior; ensuring safe environments; and responding to inappropriate behavior, breaches in policy and allegations and suspicions of abuse, along with child sexual abuse prevention training.
Recognizing Signs and Symptoms of Child Abuse and Neglect
Online Resource
This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides videos, articles and training information to help prevent child abuse and neglect.
What You Should Be Doing Proactively to Prevent Abuse
Recorded Webinar
Trial attorney Pat Buchanan of Patterson Buchanan Fobes & Leitch explains what you should be doing to prevent child sexual abuse and elder abuse.
Youth Sports
Concussion Education and Training
Website
The CDC HEADS UP initiative offers a hub of information, educational materials and training that will help you recognize, respond to and minimize the risk of concussion or other serious brain injury.
CPR and First Aid
Discounted Online Training
CPR training provides the knowledge, confidence and skills to stay calm in a medical emergency and help a person in need. ProTraining offers an online course and certification at a 20% discount rate. These courses exceed American Heart Association and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation guidelines for OSHA-mandated training, and the certification is valid for two years.
Sample Waiver of Liability
Download this sample waiver of liability to use as basis for creating your own waiver. Waivers can help protect an organization against potential lawsuits and allow parents to acknowledge the risk of their child’s involvement in team sports.
General Business Operation Services
Free HR Helpline and Library
Discounted Background Check and Screenings
Free Data Breach Prevention and Response Resources
Discounted Signage, Stationery and Promotional Items
