November 20, 2024

The Legal, Ethical, and Spiritual Role of Mandatory Reporting

Mandatory Reporting is critical in children’s ministry. Parents and guardians entrust you to provide a safe environment. Reporting laws serve as a safeguard, ensuring that concerns are quickly and effectively addressed. Understanding Mandatory Reporting Children’s ministry is often seen as a sanctuary of trust and compassion for ...

November 12, 2024

Tips for a Successful Safeguarding Committee

A safeguarding committee is a powerful tool for keeping your children’s organization as safe as possible. A safeguarding committee is a group of people with varying roles and experience who work together to focus on improving child safety. Some benefits of establishing a safeguarding committee include: It helps ...

KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares How To Effectively Communicate Your Safety Efforts

November 5, 2024

How to Effectively Communicate Safety Efforts

Be prepared to respond to hard questions. Child safety can be a sensitive topic, and while you may not have all the answers as a leader, that shouldn’t stop you from preparing to respond to the hard questions. To effectively share what you are doing, you ...

October 29, 2024

Establishing A First Line of Defense

Top Abuse Prevention Methods and Protective Tactics. Organizations must take a proactive stance to protect their most vulnerable. Every day, predators work to gain authority and trust and use their access and control to victimize. The most effective way to prevent predators from entering your organization ...

KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares New! Learn Who Is Interested in Volunteering

October 21, 2024

New! Easily Know Who Wants To Volunteer

We’re excited to share our latest improvement regarding volunteers. Now, right in their KidCheck account, with the click of a button, parents and guardians can proactively let you know they are interested in volunteering. This provides another great avenue for you to learn who wants ...

KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In SharesTeen Bullying - What to Know & How to Help

October 15, 2024

Teen Bullying: What to Know and How to Help

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. This is an excellent time to consider how your organization can prevent bullying and help teens experiencing it overcome it. The CDC reports that almost all forms of bullying peak in middle school. Specifically, 6th-grade students reported the highest ...

KidCheck Secure Children's and Youth Check-In Shares Ten Strategies to Recruit Volunteers in Fall

October 8, 2024

Ten Fall Strategies to Recruit Volunteers

Fall represents a change in direction and is the perfect time to grow your program and recruit new volunteers. Many of these strategies can be used throughout the year and are designed to attract a wide range of potential volunteers. However, people are drawn more ...

October 3, 2024

How to Handle Abuse Disclosure

Most organizations agree everyone is responsible for keeping children and young people safe. Child abuse laws exist on the federal, state, and local levels to ensure that the treatment of children is fair and ethical and protects them from all forms of abuse, including physical, ...

September 24, 2024

20 Child Safety Red Flags

With our focus on child and youth safety, KidCheck has answered many questions about how to predator-proof an organization over the years. When we discuss child predators, we often hear the same responses, “Why would a predator target our organization?” “Predators are monsters; I would ...

KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares The Top Safety Challenges and How To Address Them

September 17, 2024

KidCheck Addresses Top Safety Challenges

Children are vulnerable, so child protection and safety are essential topics to prioritize. Understanding current safety challenges and that you will never entirely rid your organization of potential danger is an excellent first step to finding solutions that reduce risk and prioritize protection. If you search ...