About this webinar

Keeping the wolf out of the sheep pen.

Screening Principle: the best predictor of future behavior is … past behavior.

Screening volunteers and staff members is one of the most effective ways to prevent sexual abuse in ministry programs, but only when leaders know what to look for. Many churches rely solely on Background Checks or assume red flags will be obvious, leaving significant gaps in their screening process.

In this session, MinistrySafe founder Kimberlee Norris describes best practices in ministry screening efforts and why effective screening plays a crucial role in preventing abuse. You’ll be introduced to key offender characteristics identified in the screening process, as well as common misconceptions that put ministries at risk. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• How applications, reference checks and interviews can be used for child safety (not just ‘fitness for purpose’)
• How high-risk indicators can be identified through effective screening
• How to access sample screening forms and additional training
  

Join us to evaluate your current screening process and ‘keep the wolf out of the sheep pen’! 

About MinistrySafe

MinistrySafe was founded by legal professionals and sexual abuse experts, Gregory Love and Kimberlee Norris. Through their litigation practice representing victims of child sexual abuse, they recognized a vital need to equip churches and ministry programs to better protect children from sexual abuse. The risk is real, and it’s preventable. Prevention starts with awareness.

About Kimberlee Norris

Kimberlee D. Norris is a sexual abuse trial attorney: representing victims of abuse, serving as a consulting expert in abuse cases, and providing crisis management and allegation response counsel to ministries of all sizes. An acknowledged authority in legal standards of care, Norris has trained over three million ministry staff members and volunteers since 2005. With her law partner Gregory Love, she serves as Co-founder and Director of MinistrySafe and MinistrySafe Institute, which grew out of their desire to place proactive tools and training into the hands of churches and ministries nationwide and across the globe.

After decades of litigating sexual abuse cases and providing legal counsel to ministries, Love and Norris partnered with Dallas Theological Seminary to create the first seminary course in existence limited to child sexual abuse risk and prevention in ministry contexts.

Norris frequently addresses national and regional audiences for organizations such as the Christian Camp and Conference Association (CCCA), American Camp Association (ACA), National Association of Church Business Administration (NACBA), Baptist state conventions and hundreds of churches, private schools and camps. Representative consultation clients include the United States Olympic Committee, Awana International, Church of the Nazarene, U. S. Center for SafeSport, First Baptist New Orleans, Austin Stone Community Church, Prestonwood Baptist Church (Dallas) and Perimeter Church (Atlanta).

In partnership with the Christian Camp and Conference Association, Norris provides the backbone of CCCA’s CamperProtect initiative. She has partnered with the following seminaries to provide coursework related to child abuse prevention: Dallas Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, Denver Seminary, Covenant Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Gateway Seminary.