welcome to St John's Safe Sanctuary training
The General Conference of The United Methodist Church, in April 1996, adopted a resolution aimed at reducing the risk of child sexual abuse in the church. Thus, in covenant with all United Methodist congregations, we adopt this policy of reducing the risk of abuse of children and youth in our church.
Therefore, as a Christian community of faith and a United Methodist congregation, we pledge to engage in the ministry of the Gospel in ways that assure the safety and spiritual growth of all of our children, youth and vulnerable adults as well as all of the workers with children and youth. We will follow reasonable safety measures in the selection and recruitment of workers; we will implement prudent operational procedures in all programs and events; we will educate all of our workers with children and youth regarding the use of appropriate policies and methods; we will have a clearly defined procedure for reporting a suspected incident of abuse that conforms to the requirements of state law; and we will be prepared to respond to media inquiries if an incident occurs. Please continue down the page to begin and complete your training.
Therefore, as a Christian community of faith and a United Methodist congregation, we pledge to engage in the ministry of the Gospel in ways that assure the safety and spiritual growth of all of our children, youth and vulnerable adults as well as all of the workers with children and youth. We will follow reasonable safety measures in the selection and recruitment of workers; we will implement prudent operational procedures in all programs and events; we will educate all of our workers with children and youth regarding the use of appropriate policies and methods; we will have a clearly defined procedure for reporting a suspected incident of abuse that conforms to the requirements of state law; and we will be prepared to respond to media inquiries if an incident occurs. Please continue down the page to begin and complete your training.
step 1: View the training video
Click on the video play tab below to view the training video. This will take about 16 minutes to launch and view after view the entire video, proceed down page to STEP 2
STEP 2: TAKE THE SAFE SANCTUARY QUIZ
After viewing the video, you are ready to take the quiz. After you submit your answers, they will be forwarded to Megan Keller.
CLICK ON THE QUIZ TAB TO BEGIN
CLICK ON THE QUIZ TAB TO BEGIN
Step 3: Download forms and sumbit
After viewing the training video and taking the quiz, you are now ready to download, print, fill out and submit forms to Megan Keller, Director of Children and Family Ministries. Remember the video was just an overview of the policy, The entire policy can be downloaded from the tab below. Then click on the tab to the left if you are an individual working with Children and Youth for the necessary forms or on the right if you are working with Vulnerable Adults. If you have any questions concerning this training please click here to email Megan Keller.
Step 4: Final Step- Fill out forms and deliver or mail to church
Finally after filling out the appropriate forms, you may either take them to the church and hand deliver them to Megan Keller, or if you mail them to the church, please be sure to mark the envelope to the attention of Megan Keller.
Mailing address is
St John's United Methodist Church
Attention Megan Keller
109 E 14th Street
Davenport Iowa 52803
Mailing address is
St John's United Methodist Church
Attention Megan Keller
109 E 14th Street
Davenport Iowa 52803
