Church Accountability

1. We serve by working with your church leaders & youth workers to train them to identify and deal with suspicious behaviors, how to avoid false accusations, and build communication skills to avoid misunderstandings between a youth worker and a teen/child.

Church will demonstrate initial training materials are being completed by all church leaders and youth workers.

2. We serve by being available for consultation regarding church policies on children and youth work. We serve by reviewing your child abuse reporting plan.

Church will submit a child abuse reporting plan.

3. We serve by providing on-going training materials.

Church will demonstrate on-going training are completed by church leaders and youth workers.

4. We serve by assigning a Christian professional with years of experience working with sex offenders to your church.

Church will demonstrate an on-going open communication with our ministry about safety issues in their church including any sexual abuse allegations and suspicious behaviors.

Church will consult with Keeping Kids Safe when there is a discovery of a visitor, church member, or leader with a history of sexual offending.

How we serve and how the church is accountable

dealing with registered or repentant offenders

1. We serve by assigning a Christian professional with years of experience working with sex offenders to your church.

Church will demonstrate an on-going open communication with our ministry about safety issues relating to known offenders and registered offenders who attend church.

2. We serve by helping your church leaders verify if registered offenders are meeting treatment and probation expectations prior to any offender attending church or identified as a churchgoer.

Church will demonstrate that verification forms are being sent and completed by probation and treatment providers when working with an offender who has been on probation or in treatment. Church will demonstrate ministering to offenders outside of church while waiting on response from probation or treatment providers.

3. We serve by providing a "Church Covenant of Accountability" with expectations and rules for registered offenders to comply with and demonstrate he/she is seeking God instead of seeking children, and being accountable.

Church will demonstrate that covenant/accountability partners have been assigned to any person with a known offending history.

4. We serve by working with your senior church leaders to implement a policy to deal with offenders who worship in secret. We provide methods for hidden offenders to stop their secretive church attendance and replace secrecy with spiritual growth and accountability.

Church will demonstrate paving the way for hidden registered offenders in the church to enter into accountability. A church leader will preach a message encouraging hidden offenders to replace secrecy with accountability

5. We serve by providing you with a daily spiritual accountability program for repentant offenders in your church.

Church will consult with us about the participation of any registered offender using this program.

The following accountability checklist is a sample form that is completed by the Kidsafe Coordinator or church leader.

ACCOUNTABILLITY COMPLIANCE CHECK LIST

Include all comments, questions, and reports of difficulty in compliance with accountability standards on back of this form.

Due on the last day of Feb/Jun/Oct

Youth volunteer workers and Sunday school teachers

The following training or documents are completed prior to working with kids. There should be a file on every person who works with kids including church leadership/staff.

Application

Background check or review of sex offender registry

Screening Safety Letter:

Trainings: Suspicious Behaviors and Prayer Keeps Kids Safe

_____ All youth workers files are completed and updated

_____ List the names of youth workers with documents still pending (on back)

Church staff/leadership

Background check or review of sex offender registry are completed prior to hire or appointment.

The following training or documents are completed within the first 60 days of hire for new church staff or appointed as church leaders.

Church leadership will review all youth church policies, sexual abuse prevention policies, and child abuse reporting procedures.

All trainings are on the Keeping Kids Safe website and church leaders will print the last page of training materials with a date and signature.

Website Trainings:

Suspicious Behaviors

Prayer Keeps Kids Safe

Research

Dealing with Offenders

Church Accountability

Home page of website

_____ All church leaders files are completed and updated

_____ List the names of church leaders with documents still pending (on back)

Comments:

Ongoing training for church leaders, staff, and youth volunteers

Keeping Kids Safe Ministries will provide training materials for the months of Jan/May/Sept.

_____Church leaders and youth workers met the ongoing training standard of 75% completion rate.

_____Church leaders and youth workers completed _____% of ongoing training and the rest are pending.

Comments:

Church Youth Policy: Reviewed Annually (Jan)

Church leadership will review church youth policies annually and any changes to policies will be emailed to Keeping Kids Safe Ministries for review.

_____Designated leader reviewed and updated church youth policies.

_____Designated leader is projected to complete review on the following date______

_____Church leadership advised of updates to policies.

Comments:

Communicating to hidden offenders in the church:

Church leader will preach a message communicating to hidden offenders in the congregation. The message should be communicated in a way that reaches men and women with sexual sin problems encouraging them to repent and get counseling. The message is presented Jan/May/Sep.

______ Church leader preached this message on the following date: _____

_____ Church leader's message directed to sex offenders during this reporting period is pending with a projected a message on the following date______

Comments:

Registered offenders or churchgoer with a history of sexual sin with a teen or child

Please mark N/A on the check list unless you have a registered offender in the church. Please see pastor or offenders covenant/accountability partner to complete the following:

1._____Verification Process was completed with probation officer/treatment provider.

Names and dates verification completed___________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

2._____Staff completed Covenant of Accountability and Commitments.

Names and dates Covenant was completed ________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

3._____Verification Process or Covenant of Accountability is pending.

Projected dates of completion are ______________

4._____Covenant Partners team (s) completed accountability checklist.

______________________________________________________________________

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Comments:

Please send this form to Keeping Kids Safe Ministries on the last day of Oct/Feb/Jun by mail. Keeping Kids Safe Ministries 296 Frey St. Ste. 3, Ashland City TN 37015

Signature of Kidsafe coordinator or church leader

_______________________________________________ Date__________