Background Screening: Summer Volunteers
Just because school is out doesn’t mean your ministry can take a vacation from safety. Properly screen and train all staff and volunteers who work with youth, even if they're filling summer positions.
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Youth Ministry
Ministering to today's youth often involves a good deal of high adventure and high risk. Such activities can draw young people to your church or ministry, but they can easily result in serious injury if not carefully managed.
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Add "Safety" to the Youth Leader Mindset
It's the leader's role to stop an activity or situation from going too far. Teenagers aren't likely to be levelheaded in times of tough competition or high emotions. Be ready to step in when it counts.
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Youth Ministry: Overnight Events
A successful overnight ministry event starts with the basics of good supervision.
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Screening Guidelines: Preventing Access in a Camp Setting
Robust screening policies are essential for minimizing the risk of a sexual predator gaining access to children, youth, and vulnerable adults—its importance cannot be overstated.
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Modify Your 15-Passenger Van
If you can't afford to replace your van, these two tips can help improve safety.
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Managing Youth High-Risk Activities
High-risk activities can be great for team building and ministering to young people, but they quickly can result in serious injury or death if not carefully managed.
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School Field Trips: Transportation
Safety is your number one priority. Consider all options for transporting students to your field trip location.
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Does Your Youth Group Play Crazy Games?
Games play an important part in today’s church youth groups because they lay the groundwork for healthy social interaction. But physical games can end with someone getting hurt. Be smart with the games you play in youth group.
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Youth Ministry: Stay Safe and Have Fun
Learn how your ministry's youth workers can combine safety and fun and avoid common mistakes.
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Floating Inflatables: Decrease the Risk
Church youth leaders need to be equipped with information that can prevent kids from getting injured or drowning on inflatable water amusements while at camp or on an outdoor excursion.
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School Field Trips: Plan for Success
Your plan for success should also include chaperone screening, planning for emergencies, safe transportation, and more.
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School Field Trips: Prepare for Emergencies
Prepare for common emergency situations before you go.
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Check Out These Youth Group Games
A safety mindset can help you be more selective with the games you play in youth ministry. Here are three examples of games that can be both safe and fun.
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Smart-Phone Safety for Churches
If a photo containing GPS coordinates in its EXIF data is posted on the Internet, anyone with a free browser add-on can access this sensitive information.
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Use Caution when Planning Hayrides
Make your church's hayride a safe and fun experience for the children and youth involved.
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Safely Ministering to Youth in a Camp Setting
Youth counselors, in particular, may develop strong bonds with your camp’s young people. The downside is that those same beneficial bonds may also contribute to forming unhealthy relationships.
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Tough Issues: Registered Sex Offenders in Ministry Activities
A white paper guide, written specifically for ministries. Includes how-to steps for creating a safe environment, developing procedures for participation, and organizing a response team.
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Boost Youth Workers' Safety Mindset
Back-to-school season is a great time to build momentum for your youth program. It’s also an ideal time to review the safety mindset of youth group leaders.
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Skateboarding Ministries: Consider the Cost
If your ministry is thinking of opening a skate park, here are some things to consider.
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Hiring Youth for Ministry Work
If you’re looking to employ someone under 18, be aware that employment rules that apply to most businesses generally apply to your ministry as well.
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Fireworks as a Fundraiser
Selling fireworks for the Fourth of July may seem like an easy way for volunteers to raise money for church activities. However, there are some drawbacks to consider, such as injuries and increased liability.
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Youth Ministry: Develop a Digital Communication Policy
Digital communication, such as text messages, can open your ministry to liability in many ways, especially when adults are interacting with minors involved in your youth ministry.
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Inflatable Amusements Can Cause Injuries
Protect your ministry by assessing the risks involved with inflatable amusements like moon walks, and the injuries or emergency room visits that have ensued.
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Mission Travel: Safety Tips
By taking steps in advance, you can travel safer and be better prepared for emergency situations.
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Youth Texting/Communication Checklist
Do you follow a published set of guidelines and policies that govern texting and messaging practices for your ministry’s employees and volunteers who work with youth? Use this checklist to uncover areas that might expose your ministry to risk.
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Mission Travel: Did You Forget These?
Successful mission travel is all in the details. But it's hard to think of everything. These five tips can help you avoid last-minute scrambling.
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Social Media: Best Practices for Ministries
Use these guidelines to help your ministry use social media safely and effectively.
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Developing Special-Needs Ministries at Church
To lay the foundation for a successful special needs ministry, be sure to find qualified program leaders, establish proper policies, screen and train all workers, and engage church leadership.
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What Should Your Ministry Know about Youth Texting Exposures?
If guidelines are not established, young people can hurt themselves or others by sending or receiving inappropriate text messages.
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A Warning about Water Walking Balls
The Product Safety Commission urges consumers to stop using water walking balls, large, see through, plastic balls inflated by a blower, due to potential risks of suffocation, drowning, and impact injuries.
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Activity Participation Agreement: What It Does For Your Ministry
Here's how to make an activity participation agreement work for both your organization and your participants.
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Planning a Short-term Mission Trip
Anticipate potential problems to better manage them during your trip.
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Camp Kitchen Checklist
When you’re feeding a group of people, there’s always the potential for contaminated food that can make people sick. Start with our checklist to help control the risk.
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Youth Activities Safety Checklist
Whether your youth ministry involves low-risk activities like boxing up canned goods for a food bank, or high-risk activities like rock climbing, this checklist helps you manage things safely.
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Non-Owned Vehicles Driver Checklist
If your ministry rents vehicles or parents transport children for field trips, this checklist helps you ask the right questions to protect your drivers and passengers.
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Supervision and Discipline / Youth Checklist
Leaders can face supervision and discipline challenges that spoil the fun for all. Get everyone in your group on the same page with our checklist.
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Short-term Mission Trip Release Form
Download this Acknowledgement and Release Form for your short-term mission travel participants.
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