Resource: Safe Gatherings
Southern Mutual Church Insurance is passionate about protecting children, youth, and vulnerable adults from abuse that happens inside and outside the walls of churches and other faith-based organizations. That’s why we are offering Safe Gatherings as a resource in this area.
Safe Gatherings is an online abuse prevention program that screens and educates staff and volunteers to help prevent abuse of children, youth and vulnerable adults. We partner with background check companies and process the applications so church administrators can spend time on other tasks.
The secure Safe Gatherings system includes:
- Processing of two electronic references
- National criminal background check
- 7-year current county of residence OR multi-county of residence background check (recommended)
- National and state of residence Sex Offender Registry check
- Applicant tracking for church administrators
- 1.5-hour online abuse prevention and boundary awareness training
When employees and volunteers are trained about best practices for working with vulnerable populations, know the behaviors of potential abusers, recognize the signs of abuse and know how to handle reporting, they are better equipped to prevent abuse.
Visit the Safe Gatherings website or call 888.241.8258 for additional information.