Thursday, December 12, 2024
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Develop Comprehensive Training to Ensure Compliance & Safeguard Your Institution and Youth

Institutions are obligated to establish a safe and secure environment by providing essential and extensive educational training to student staff and student volunteers who work with youth.

Meet your moral and legal responsibility to minors who interact with student staff and organization volunteers.

Join our expert presenters on Thursday, December 12, 2024, as they guide you through critical conversations related to implementing effective campus-wide training programs and essential reports and communication protocols to consider when creating compliance standards for youth protection training. They will share practical advice to train both student staff and volunteers tailored to keep your institution compliant and your young visitors safe. 

Take steps to implement institution-wide protection protocols, identify leading practices for creating compliance standards for youth protection training, protect your institution from headline news and mitigate institutional risks to improve overall prevention efforts.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Create a comprehensive campus-wide training program for student staff and volunteers who work with youth on your campus.
• Demonstrate methods to improve your campus policies and procedures regarding reporting, communication and managing incidents involving minors.
• Develop or augment your institution’s youth protection policies to ensure institutional-wide implementation to protect all minors who interact with multiple people/programs across your campus.
• Improve your campus policies and procedures regarding reporting, communication and managing incidents involving minors.
• Engage the appropriate stakeholders and community partners in policy and response protocols to ensure institutional-wide implementation to protect all minors that interact with multiple student staff, programs and departments across your campus.
• Assess your program’s effectiveness and levels of compliance through a comprehensive evaluation process.

Presenters

Dr. Carolynn Komanski currently serves as the Director for the Office of Experiential Programs at the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida.
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Sophia Andrews currently serves as the Assistant Director for Youth Compliance and Ethics at the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida.
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