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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In SharesUsing SMART Goals to Boost Productivity
February 5, 2025

Using SMART Goals to Boost Productivity

When serving children and youth, there is no shortage of tasks competing for your attention. Lesson planning, organizing events, recruiting volunteers, and building relationships with families create a list that feels endless and overwhelming. This may make setting and achieving goals seem daunting. What if ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In SharesShort-Term Goals: The Secret to Success
January 29, 2025

Short-Term Goals: The Secret to Success

There is a lot of information about the benefits of setting short- and long-term goals. Long-term goals are larger objectives you intend to achieve over time. They focus on the future and are reached by meeting smaller milestones. They don’t require us to revisit them, but ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares The Top Ten Blog Posts of 2024
January 6, 2025

Top 10 Blog Posts of 2024

One of our favorite things to do at the end of the year is to see which blog posts our community found most helpful. Each year, we reflect on what’s been shared and how we can continue providing information that helps you secure your organization, ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In SharesEight Practical Ways to Motivate Your Team
December 3, 2024

Eight Practical Ways to Motivate Your Team

When people feel valued, they are motivated to give it their all and perform at their best. Every person is motivated differently. For some, it’s time, flexibility, or promotion; for others, it’s money, autonomy, or achievement. Motivation is the driving force that encourages people to ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares The Legal, Ethical, and Spiritual Role of Mandatory Reporting
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares How To Handle Abuse Disclosure
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, ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares 20 Child Safety Red Flags
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 ...
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