About this webinar

When ministry leaders contemplate the risk of child sexual abuse, the focus is generally on adults as the perpetrator; many don’t realize that a growing percentage of sexual abuse risk stems from the behavior of one child toward another. Peer Sexual Abuse presents a rising risk in churches, schools, camps, and youth programs. Leaders must understand how it unfolds to prevent it from occurring.

In this session, the founders of MinistrySafe will explain the dynamics of Peer Sexual Abuse, why this risk is increasing, and where it most often occurs in ministry environments. You’ll learn practical steps to reduce vulnerability, support your team, and strengthen safety for children in ministry programs.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• How Peer Sexual Abuse develops and why it often goes unnoticed
• Where and how Peer Sexual Abuse occurs in ministry settings
• Which Safety System elements reduce this risk

Join us during Sexual Abuse Awareness Month to better understand this growing risk and take proactive steps to keep children safe.

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. 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.