About this webinar

Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid

Once you understand how Background Checks work, the next step is using them effectively. In this advanced session, MinistrySafe experts explain the basis for choosing a depth of search and schedule for refreshing and renewing, as well as how to identify and navigate plea-down and stair-step offenses. 

You’ll learn how to avoid common pitfalls, set an appropriate re-screening schedule, and use Background Checks as one element of an effective System to protect children and those who serve them. As well, this session introduces the value of Continuous Monitoring, a tool that serves to close gaps and reduce ongoing risk by alerting ministries to new criminal activity between re-screens. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• Practical strategies to improve Background Check accuracy and depth
• How Continuous Monitoring reduces risk between re-screens
• How to recognize Background Check providers and search options that unnecessarily restrict search scopes and results
• How Background Checks fit within an effective Safety System

Join us to strengthen your understanding of Background Checks and ensure this resource is effectively deployed to truly protect children and those who serve them.

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.