Ethnos360’s current safeguards and policies are up to date with World Health Organization standards and are reviewed regularly. Ethnos360 strives to keep children safe by reducing situations of risk, having accountability for adults in contact with children, and training members in our child safety policies.
Child Safety
Child Safety Training for Members
Ethnos360 trains all new members with a course that meets industry standards in the area of child safety. This training focuses on ways to reduce risk for children and increase accountability of adults in contact with children.
Additionally, Ethnos360 offers child safety training to parents and children at our Missionary Training Center based on material available through Praesidium Inc. You can view their training programs at http://website.praesidiuminc.com.
In an effort to make sure children are protected in every way possible, child care workers within Ethnos360 receive specialized training beyond the requirements for regular members.
All Ethnos360 members, employees, interns and students must complete a biennial review of Ethnos360’s Child Safety Handbook and complete the online Child Safety course.
Safeguards and Policies
Keeping children safe within Ethnos360 begins with our screening process. All applicants for Ethnos360 membership, both career and associate, must undergo background checks. All employees of legal age and interns also undergo background checks.
A portion of Ethnos360’s safeguards includes policies that govern situations in which adults are in contact with children who are not their own. Some of these policies are:
- Two unrelated adults are required to be present at all times in childcare.
- Classrooms are open to visits by administrators and staff at all times, and such visits are to be carried out without warning.
- Ethnos360 policy does not permit corporal punishment in Ethnos360 childcare or our mission-operated school situations.
Sometimes living cross-culturally requires different safeguards for children than are necessary in their home country. Specialized training is given to help our missionaries learn to exercise situational awareness and use appropriate safeguards as they move their family into another culture. We want to help our members’ families live safely in whatever host culture becomes their new home.
Historical Reviews
No matter how long ago it happened, any allegation of child abuse deserves serious attention. Because of this, Ethnos360 has commissioned independent reviews of historical allegations. Find out more.
