SMR has over 15 years of experience in implementation of face to face Safe Ministry prevention education
Safe Ministry training aims to assist church workers in understanding their pastoral, organisational, legal and risk management responsibilities towards reducing the instances of ministry misconduct, abuse, and duty of care and/or safety failures, and to provide churches with general good practice advice for Safe Ministry.
SMR recognises that training does not ensure Safe Ministry, but that this will be achieved through the implementation of robust policy, procedures and through safe ministry interactions.
COURSES AVAILABLE
Child Protection Basics
To help educate staff and volunteers in relation to:
– child safe environments (incl National 10 Child Safe Principles)
– understanding harm and risk of harm
– responding to risk of harm concerns
Volunteer Essentials
To train volunteers in relation to:
– Child Protection / Safe Ministry policy
– Safe Ministry concepts (boundaries, codes of conduct, and duty of care)
– identifying and responding to concerns about harm
Safe Church/Ministry for Senior Leaders
(Induction / Refresher)
Designed to assist church workers in their understanding and awareness of:
– God-honouring, life-giving and harm-free ministry interactions
– appropriate boundaries and codes of conduct
– duty of care
– identifying and responding to concerns about harm
– procedures for responding to risk of harm
– safe physical, emotional and spiritual environments
– denominational policies and procedures
– National 10 Child Safe Principles
Safe Church/Ministry Policy & Procedures Implementation
– working from Safe Church/Ministry policy, through procedures, to implementation
Governance Board – Management of Persons of Concern
– provided to assist local church governance boards who are considering ministry to a Person of Concern
Pricing:
4 – 6 hours $900 for up to 20 people and $30 per person over 20 people
1 – 3 hours $450 for up to 20 people and $30 per person over 20 people
Workshops include all materials
Travel costs i.e. train, tram, airfares (economy), bus, taxi, transfers, car hire, 60c/km for car travel, overnight accommodation (up to $220 per night), $50 per person per day food allowance
Safe Ministry Resources can also provide customisation services to your organisation for the implementation of the Safe Community Framework.
The Safe Ministry/Community Framework is developed and owned by Safe Ministry Resources Pty Ltd. It is freely available to organisations to use and adapt with permission. Please contact us at [email protected] to seek permission.
Disclaimer: These publications are not legal advice. The ideas and procedures herein are based on nationally recognised good practice advice and have been written with due regard to Australian legislation March 2020. Legal advice may need to be sought when responding to individual incidents.