Perimeter Church takes great measures to care for the children and students in our ministry programs.
In order to help provide this safe environment, we have contracted with MinistrySafe, a firm that provides training and a safety system in order to enhance our child protection practices and further equip our ministries to be aware of sexual predators.
There are four steps to this safety system which we require staff members and all volunteers working with children and students to complete.
Staff members and volunteers over age 17 are required to have a criminal background check.
The screening process includes:
A volunteer should have regularly attended Perimeter Church for six months before being eligible to serve in positions providing access to children, youth or student populations.
This online training will equip staff members and volunteers with information necessary to recognize abuser characteristics and grooming behavior. Grooming is the process used by an abuser to select a participant, win the participant’s trust (and the trust of the participant’s parent or ‘gatekeeper’), manipulate the participant into sexual activity and keep the participant from disclosing the abuse.
The video’s topics include:
Staff members and volunteers should review the policies contained in the Participant Safety Policies and sign the agreement page, indicating that he or she has read and understood the material and agrees to comply with policy requirements.
