April is Childhood Protection Month
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month The Archdiocesan Safe Environment Office takes this opportunity to highlight our ongoing efforts to protect the children and vulnerable adults in our care. Including new training on Healthy Boundaries for Adults, assigned to employees plus a similar training, specifically for clergy.
April 7, 2024
Our lives are made up of relationships with the people around us. We have personal and public relationships. Healthy boundaries allow them to flourish and contribute to the possibility of living joyful lives. Appropriate boundaries help to maintain a safe environment, serving to protect us, the people around us, and the people in our care.
April 14, 2024
Boundaries are limits that we set between ourselves and others. Lines to separate our personal space, emotions, and behaviors for ourselves and with others. Boundaries also include the limits of what is appropriate in a specific situation. There are several different types of boundaries, including physical, technological, emotional, behavioral and boundaries involving sexual misconduct.
April 21, 2024
All employees and volunteers have a responsibility to behave appropriately and uphold a specific set of standards, even if your role does not directly involve minors or vulnerable adults. It is still your responsibility to be a safe adult, which means upholding healthy and appropriate behaviors when interacting with them. We take particular care when addressing environments and interactions involving minors because of their inherent vulnerability as children. Our behavior can make children less or more vulnerable, and less or more able to be manipulated (and possibly abused).
April 28, 2024
There are a variety of reasons for maintaining appropriate boundaries. Personal boundaries are critical for self-care and promoting mental and emotional health. We set them to protect ourselves. When we are involved within an organization, there are expectations of appropriate behavior within relationships and interactions. Most people have good intentions, but this does not always equal appropriate behavior. We need to be mindful of our own behavior that reflects our boundaries, the perception and possible impact of our behavior, the expectations within an organization, what boundary violations look like, and how to communicate concerns.