About this webinar

Understanding What Background Checks Can (and Cannot) Do

An effective Background Check strategy starts with good information about this resource. Many ministry leaders assume that a Background Check, alone, will negate the risk of child sexual abuse. This is simply not true. In fact, Background Checks provide only one element of the 5-Part Safety System designed to prevent sexual abuse. As discussed in a prior session, ministry leaders must understand what Background Checks accomplish and what limitations exist.

In this session, MinistrySafe experts will explain how Background Checks work, as well as existing limitations: federal and state legislative restrictions, the realities of sexual abuse and the criminal justice system, breakdowns in criminal record searchability, and more. Understanding the workings and challenges of Background Checks provides a foundation for developing an intentional Background Check strategy within a broader Safety System.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• How Background Check systems work, with associated challenges 
• The unique obstacles related to sexual abuse and the criminal justice system
• How Background Checks fit into and function in an effective Safety System

Join us during National Church Safety & Security Month to upgrade your Background Check strategy and keep your ministry better protected.

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 Gregory Love

Gregory S. Love, managing partner of the Fort Worth, Texas law firm of Love & Norris, is the Co-founder of MinistrySafe, MinistrySafe Institute and Abuse Prevention Systems.

His clients include denominations, camps, universities, private schools, public and private charities, and youth sports groups.

An expert in legal standards of care related to child sexual abuse, he has consulted with organizations such as the United States Olympic Committee, U.S. Center for Safe Sport, Awana International, Trail Life USA, U.S. Youth Soccer, North American Mission Board, and numerous faith-based organizations and denominations.

Love provides instruction and continuing education to risk management professionals, and performs internal evaluation of standard of care issues related to child sexual abuse.

Love earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Texas Tech University in 1987, followed by a Juris Doctor from Texas Tech School of Law. He is a member of the Texas State Bar and a fellow of the Tarrant County Bar Foundation.

Love has served as guest lecturer at Texas Wesleyan School of Law (now Texas A&M School of Law), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Liberty School of Divinity. He currently serves as Visiting Faculty at Dallas Theological Seminary, teaching the only existing seminary-level course limited to sexual abuse risk: Preventing Sexual Abuse in Ministry Contexts.

With his law partner Kimberlee Norris, Love writes for numerous publications addressing child sexual abuse risk, impact, prevention and legislation.