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Safety/Liability
Surrounding all the we do in ministry is our responsibility to protect our church, our volunteers, and those we serve.
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- Reference Survey (Forms)
This form can be mailed to people listed as references, or used as a guide in a telephone conversation with them.
- Background Check Authorization (Letters)
This letter can accompany background check authorization forms, to explain why they're needed.
- Vehicle Use Policy (Forms)
This document can serve as a starting point for your church's written policy on use of vehicles (whether owned by the church or individual) used for church activities.
- Child, Youth, and Worker Protection Policy (Handbooks)
North Oelmsted Evangelical Friends Church shares their policy for all those who work with children. You may find some good ideas for your own handbook here.
- Boy Scouts of America Youth Protection Guidelines (Handbooks)
The Boy Scouts of America has adopted a number of policies aimed at eliminating opportunities for abuse within the Scouting program. These are the Youth Protection Guidelines all volunteers are required to review. This is copyrighted material of the Boy Scouts of America, used with their permission. All rights reserved.
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- Safe and Sound
These security essentials can keep your nursery safe—and babies' parents happy
- Security Basics
Churches identify the most important security elements needed to ensure proper risk management. Discover how you can make your ministry safer with these precautions.
- Family-Friendly Churches
Careful planning makes sure your programs support families.
- Safe and Caring
Use this checklist to determine if you’re providing a safe and caring nursery.
- Child Abuse Resources
If you suspect a child is being abused, request information from these agencies.
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- CM103--Mediating Conflict
This module contains practical steps for guiding a meeting between people in conflict. While listening to both sides is good, getting them to listen to each other is even better. This training is helpful for anyone who might be asked to help resolve conflict., especially a ministry coordinator or volunteer director.
- RM102-Dealing with Threats of Violence
It is a sad reality of our society that we, as the body of Christ, must consider the possibility that someone may enter a church for the purpose of committing acts of violence against God’s people. This module will help everyone who works in your church how to be prepared to deal with, and hopefully prevent, such threats.
- RM101--What You Need to Know About Risk Management
Learn the basics of risk management in the church. This course would benefit any volunteer, especially those who work directly with children, youth, and the elderly. Find out why managing risk is vital to the church, and what to do to make your ministry a safe environment.
- RM201--Implementing Risk Management in Ministry
Discover how to implement a process of risk management for each ministry area of the church. This course would benefit any ministry leader, who manages other volunteers. Learn the options for developing methods to minimize risk to your church.
- RM301--Implementing Risk Management Systems
This session is designed for the staff or lay leader who supervises church volunteers. Learn screening techniques and organizational development of establishing a risk management system for your church.
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 Simply Strategic Volunteers: Empowering People for Ministry
Following on the success of their recent release Simply Strategic Stuff, church administration experts Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan guide readers through rough waters of volunteer management. They ease the pain and please the brain with bite-sized tips and strategies for recruiting, training, motivating, and keeping valuable ministry volunteers. It's in-depth and in touch with the practical needs of busy leaders looking to convert church "consumers" to passionate "contributors."As a CVC member, save 20% when you buy this item in the CVC store.  No Surprises: Harmonizing Risk and Reward in Volunteer Management (3rd Edition)
Managing the spectrum of volunteers whose diverse ages, languages, cultures, interests, skills, interests, and schedules creates additional challenges for nonprofit organizations. Safeguarding volunteers, service recipients and the organization requires a sophisticated blend of risk taking and risk protection. As a color wheel shows relationships between hue, lightness and saturation, a risk management program reflects the relationships between risk and reward as it pertains to your mission. Whether your nonprofit is highly successful at integrating the risks and rewards of volunteer management and wants to evaluate or refine what you’re already doing, or your nonprofit wants to create a sound new program, you can find help in No Surprises, 3rd edition. No Surprises is a clear, easy-to-read book that translates risk management into everyday choices and behaviors all directed at protecting the mission of your nonprofit.
Published by The Non-Profit Risk Management Center  The Season of Hope: A Risk Management Guide for Youth-Serving Nonprofits
The Season of Hope addresses an array of questions from youth-serving organizations about protecting children in a nonprofit’s charge from harm, whether they are program participants, employees or volunteers. Learn which risks are inherent in your program due to the developmental stage (infancy through adolescence) of the participants. Build your own plan from examples of risk management strategies for violence, health, injuries and accidents, and Internet access. Its broad focus approach speaks to youth development professionals, executive directors, board members, directors of volunteers and human resource managers. Adults in general can no longer ensure the safety of young people as they grow and develop, but they can mitigate the risks inherent in their youth-serving programs with help from The Season of Hope.
Published by The Non-Profit Risk Management Center  Emergency Response Handbook for Small Group Leaders
This quick-response handbook helps small group members face challenging times and successfully cope together. You'll discover several approaches to handle each critical issue--from the death of a child to divorce, addiction, terminal illness and more. It's all backed by Scripture help, case studies, and counseling advice. Plus, you'll discover great ways for other members to support their friends in need. Along the way, small group members grow in their friendships with each other and with God.  Discipline Guide for Children's Ministry
With this book you'll understand and implement classroom-management techniques that work--and that make teaching fun again! From a thorough explanation of age-appropriate concerns...to proven strategies for heading off discipline problems before they occur...here's a practical book you'll turn to again and again! To see more related resources of this type,
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- The Inside Track Archives
Every month we send our members The Inside Track e-newsletter filled with trends, tips, and the opportunity to learn from people like you trying to build their church's ministries. Some of this information is based on the current times, but much of it is timeless. Here you will find all the past issues, which you can browse at leisure.
- Staff Manager
Staff Manager lets you keep your workers' information together in one place. Track contact, service, and gifting information, and even search for volunteers by area of ministry.
- Handbook Template
We've put together a template that contains several potential pages for your handbook. Examine each section and read our rationale for the importance of each page. Then download the pages you want (being very sure of your reasoning for leaving something out!) and customize them for your church.
- Ordering Background Checks
Conducting a background-check, in combination with other screening techniques, will go a long way to demonstrate that your church has been cautious in its selection practices. A background check is a valuable risk management and liability reduction tool. Church Volunteer Central is pleased to partner with LexisNexis to offer you discount background-check services.
- Live Church Volunteer Central Events
At Church Volunteer Central, we want to provide as many ways as possible to get you the resources you need to do your ministry well. In addition to our online offerings, we're working on an expanded lineup of conferences, summits, workshops and on-site events. Not only does this give you the opportunity to learn directly from experts in equipping ministry, it gives you the ability to network with other association members who are facing the same things you are!
The Inside Track Archives |
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- How You Break Before You Break -
Jul, 2009
Last month Danette Matty talked about the important of taking a break before you break. This month she shares some of the great responses she received from other ministry leaders with practical tips on how they find ways to do that.
- Easy Can Be Bad -
Aug, 2009
A colleague recently asked Don Simmons to review his church’s new management system. The church was investing thousands of dollars and countless hours of staff time to implement it. It was designed to make several aspects of dealing with people easier. But in this case, making things easier did more harm than good and defeated the purpose of something important!
- Who's Right? -
Aug, 2009
Krista Petty’s church values partnering with others to do good works in her city. It’s true that you can do more together than you can alone, but partnering isn’t always easy. When there’s a conflict, how do you determine who’s right and what to do?
- Extreme Volunteer Training -
Sep, 2009
Larry Shallenberger recently had the opportunity to watch volunteer training at his church done, literally, Hollywood-style! ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover was in town to build a home, and his church was selected to host the volunteer pep rally. He was able to see some powerful training keys that apply to all of our churches!
- Bus Crash Settlement: Church Pays $843,000 -
Mar, 2004
It’s something to think about: What would happen if your church budget—or even your liability policy—took this kind of hit?
The families of four students who were killed and another three dozen who were injured in a youth group bus crash in...
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