Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures

This guide assists youth-serving organizations as they begin to adopt prevention strategies for child sexual abuse. It identifies six key components of child sexual abuse prevention for organizations including (1) screening and selecting employees and volunteers; (2) guidelines on interactions between individuals; (3) monitoring behavior; (4) ensuring safe environments; (5) responding to inappropriate behavior, breaches in policy, and allegations and suspicions of child sexual abuse; and (6) training in child sexual abuse prevention.