Safe Environments and Parish Compliance

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Safe Environmentsand Parish Compliance
Diocese of St. Cloud
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Parishes are required to do the following

• All new employees and volunteers
• 1. Must read and sign the Diocesan Sexual
  Misconduct Policy

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Acknowledgement of Receipt
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Parish Requirements

• Must read and sign the Diocesan Sexual Misconduct
  Policy
• Must sign the Background questionnaire concerning
  Sexual Abuse

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Background Questionnaire
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Parish Requirements

• Must read and sign the Diocesan Sexual Misconduct
  Policy
• Must sign the Background questionnaire concerning
  Sexual Abuse
• Must read and sign the Guidelines for Ethics and
  Integrity in Ministry.

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Acknowledgement of Receipt
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Parish Requirements

• Must read and sign the Diocesan Sexual Misconduct
  Policy
• Must sign the Background questionnaire concerning
  Sexual Abuse
• Must read and sign the Guidelines for Ethics and
  Integrity in Ministry
• 4. All new employees or volunteers must have a
  criminal background check.
• Paid staff use the form from the Minnesota
  Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).
• Volunteers should use the form from Mind Your
  Business, Inc.

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Background Check Forms
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Parish Requirements

• All employees and volunteers who have previously
  read and signed the Diocesan Sexual Misconduct
  Policy, the Background Questionnaire Concerning
  Sexual Abuse and the Guidelines for Ethics
  Integrity in Ministry MUST initial these forms
  annually.
• ( It is recommended that this signing and all
  training takes place at the beginning of the
  academic year)

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Parish Guidelines

• Keep records of the persons whom the parish has
  submitted background checks
• Keep sign off forms for Sexual Misconduct policy
  and Ethics and Integrity Guideline in
  personnel/volunteer files.
• Background checks need to be completed once and
  upon notification of the Vicar General.
• Pastors will be notified if a concern arises. The
  pastor must act on this concern. Criminal
  background checks will point out felony
  violations.

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Parish Guidelines (cont)

• Each parish should have a safe environment
  contact person. This person should attend the
  safe environment training annually.
• All staff and volunteers are expected to view the
  2006 - 2007 powerpoint Keeping Boundaries.

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Parish Guidelines (cont)

• A curriculum for all students in schools and
  religious education programs must take place.
• A parish bulletin/newsletter announcement is
  provided to share with parents prior to the
  presentation of the curriculum.
• The policy and guidelines, the powerpoint,
  Keeping Boundaries needs to be available for
  parents in every parish.

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Parish Compliance Reports

• Each year parishes are expected to complete a
  parish compliance report and submit this to the
  Chancery no later than June.

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Safe Environment Resources

• If you need additional resources from past
• years training go to

www.stcdio.org/safeenvironment