During
Summer 2008, we held a series of webinars on making sure
that tutors and mentors report child safety concerns.
Since the first pilot of the
America
Learns Performance Measurement & Learning Network
in 2003 and 2004, we found that volunteer tutors and mentors
sometimes have valid concerns about the safety of the
children they serve; however, despite being told about
mandatory reporting requirements during pre-service
trainings, some of those volunteers do not report their
concerns.
Webinar participants spent 30 minutes learning about the
steps we've taken with the organizations we serve to help
ensure that their volunteers always report safety concerns
as soon as possible.
Takeaways
Following the webinar, participants received
two takeaways:
-
Language to include on their own tutoring and mentoring
session logs to track the safety concerns of volunteers
who are hesitant to share their concerns in person, or
who write about their concerns in portions of their
session logs that are not intended to for child safety
discussion; and
- The
description of physical, emotional and mental safety
that we developed with the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation, which can be shared with volunteers during
trainings and can be attached to paper-based or
electronic session logs.
Note
on What this Webinar Did Not Cover
The webinar did not:
- Dive into the details of mandatory reporting laws;
- Discuss the intended and unintended consequences of making
reports; and did not
- Involve a thorough tour of our main service for tutoring
and mentoring programs, the America Learns Performance
Measurement & Learning Network.
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