FADICA and Praesidium provide quarterly webinars on key safeguarding topics for grantee partners. Typically one hour in length, these webinars include live question-and-answer opportunities.

Webinars are supplemented by PowerPoint slides and downloadable PDFs. Upcoming webinars will be listed on the Events page. All previous webinar recordings are archived below.

• September 2022
  • Organizational Response to Sexual Abuse Incidents & Compassionate Care for Survivors
  • Audience: Ideal for all audiences 
• June 2022
  
  • What the Numbers Show: Safeguarding Research & Abuse Prevention Strategies in 2022
  • Audience: Ideal for youth-serving organizations who wish to use recent trends in abuse cases and safeguarding interventions to inform their best practices
• March 2022
  • Safeguarding Principles to Inform Policy Development
  • Audience: Ideal for organizations who are in the early stages of safeguarding dialogue and policy development 
• November 2021
  • Safeguarding Responsibilities for Responding and Reporting
  • Audience: Ideal for organizations seeking to understand more about mandated reporting, historical allegations, and more
• August 2021
  • Organizational Screening: Best Practices for Building Your Safe Environment with Staff and Volunteers
  • Audience: Ideal for organizational leadership and parties involved with hiring/on-boarding new staff
• April 2021
  • Part I: Initial Considerations for Beginning Your Safeguarding Journey
  • Audience: Ideal for new grantee partners; individuals who are interested in learning about safeguarding
  • Part II: A Roadmap for Developing Your Safeguarding Policy
  • Audience: Grantee partners who wish to develop or revise a safeguarding policy
• December 2020
  • Supporting Cultures of Safety in a Time of Fatigue: A Conversation with Praesidium and FADICA
  • Audience: Ideal for direct-service providers; individuals supervising/managing frontline personnel; any team that has experienced fatigue
• September 2020
  • Safeguarding For Your Organization: How to Minimize Abuse Risk and Protect Your Clients
  • Audience: Ideal for management personnel or decision-makers at partner organizations that directly serve children or vulnerable adults. This webinar explores eight organizational operations that inform best safeguarding practice (the “Safety Equation”), with a special focus on maintaining safety in virtually-facilitated environments.
• June 2020
  • Screening and Selection: Safeguarding Best Practices for FADICA Member Grantee Partners
  • Audience: Ideal for hiring managers, interview teams, or anyone tasked with monitoring employees or volunteers in direct-service organizations.
• April 2020
  • Safeguarding Best Practices: An Introduction for FADICA Members & their Grantee Partners
  • Audience: Ideal for any direct-service organization that wishes to draft, revise, or expand a safeguarding policy. The webinar focuses on creating a framework for policy development.