Consider, Create, Refine: A Roadmap for Developing Written Safeguarding Policy
https://vimeo.com/1061386491/133e4f3c41 Recorded February 26, 2025 Description: A written safeguarding policy helps an organization address its responsibilities to beneficiaries of service, clients, volunteers, and staff, and it articulates how the organization will keep all parties safe from abuse or harm. Crucially, a policy can educate and empower its stakeholders while creating consistent standards for behavior and […]
Sample Policies
Review Praesidium’s Sample Policies for Abuse Prevention, a 2023 resource exclusively for FADICA members and grantee partners. Request Access
Safeguarding Policy Checklist
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High Reliability Organizations: Inspiration for Fostering Cultures of Safety
https://vimeo.com/1027428487/9d2c8ef7c7?ts=0&share=copy Recorded November 6, 2024 Description: What can we learn from high reliability organizations and occupational safety, and how can we apply those learnings towards organizational efforts of safeguarding? Join FADICA and Praesidium as we examine the central principles of high reliability organizations (HROs). From hospitals to aircraft carriers, HROs perform complex work safely, efficiently, […]
Hiring Thoughtfully: Best Practices for Employee and Volunteer Screening
https://vimeo.com/1009235569/8da55297bc?ts=0&share=copy Recorded September 11, 2024 Description: Join FADICA and Praesidium as discuss best hiring practices, including background checks, and the importance of integrating behaviorally-based questions into candidate interviews. A holistic approach to safety will leverage applications, interviews, and reference checks, and we will dive deeply into these fundamentals. Materials for Download: PowerPoint Slides Screening and […]
An Introduction to Safeguarding Best Practices (2024)
Recorded March 13, 2024 Description: A safe environment for your staff, volunteers, and program participants begins with a commitment to educating your teams. Join FADICA for an introduction to safeguarding best practices, focused on preventing abuse and keeping children and adults safe. Guided by Praesidium, an abuse risk management partner, we will cover essential topics […]
Unique Dynamics for Safeguarding Vulnerable Adult Populations
Recorded July 17, 2024 Description: While an adult’s vulnerability can be diversely defined, it nevertheless requires organizations to be intentional in creating safe environments. Join FADICA and Praesidium as we explore power differentials and risks that affect vulnerable adults and care/service providers, recognizing where and to what extent boundaries can be crossed. Together we will […]
Creating a Written Safeguarding Policy: The Essentials
https://vimeo.com/949657195/8c0f28e073?share=copy Recorded May 22, 2024 Description: A written safeguarding policy communicates an organization’s zero tolerance for abuse and is an important first step in your team’s learning and adoption of safeguarding best practices. Join FADICA and Praesidium for an overview of an essential framework for developing a safeguarding policy, including seven key components that will […]
First Do No Harm: The Intersection of Safeguarding Efforts in Healthcare Settings
https://vimeo.com/933410941/ae08c7c225?share=copy Recorded April 10, 2024 Description: In the last decade, investigative journalists have revealed numerous stories of sexual misconduct among healthcare workers from single cases of abuse to those harming over hundreds of patients. These cases have not only highlighted the destruction of lives of survivors but also the loss of careers of clinicians and […]
Training Opportunities
Darkness to Light: Stewards of Children Self-directed online training module. Individual seat licenses available upon request. Darkness to Light embraces a “social behavior change” framework, empowering adults to work within their spheres of influence – youth-serving organizations, the community, the family, political power – to prevent abuse. Stewards of Children introduces clear abuse definitions and […]
