Safety and Protection of Children in Church

Making Our Churches Safe for All, is a guide to help your church design policies and procedures to help prevent abuse of children.  Additional resources are recommended in this guidebook, which can also be ordered in glossy, printed form from the UCC Insurance Board.

The web page of the UCC’s Parish Life and Leadership is also filled with resources to support the creation of your congregation’s safe-church policy.  Contact your own church’s insurance carrier if you do not carry insurance through the UCC Insurance Board.

One way to help protect children and youth from child abuse is to provide the ministry of human sexuality education in your congregation.

Your congregation can find further resources to help prevent child abuse and neglect at the Faith Trust Institute.  Abuse prevention resources include a Teen Dating curriculum, “Love: All That and More.”