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Samantha Kilpatrick

How the Grooming Process Leads to Child Sexual Abuse

Culturally, we have been conditioned to believe that the greatest threat to our children...

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How to create child protection policies for your church: Part 5

Responding to a disclosure of abuse

As church leadership learns about abuse and begins to formulate policies, there is more...

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How to create child protection policies for your church: Part 4

Interactions and a code of conduct

Child predators are looking for opportunities to gain trust in order to embed themselves...

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How to create child protection policies for your church: Part 3

Interviewing and screening

Churches and youth-serving organizations attract offenders. Churches, specifically, are easy targets because there tends...

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How to create child protection policies for your church: Part 2

Objectives and definitions

According to Christianity Today’s Church Law & Tax, one of the top five reasons...

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How to create child protection policies for your church: Part 1

In recent years, the #MeToo movement and other high-profile public scandals have increased public...

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