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The courses will launch on June 14, 2021. The steps below need to be completed by August 15, 2021. 

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title2024 Annual Required Education

Reliant Staff and Associates will receive emails in their Reliant inbox on June 1, 2024, with links to the courses and survey.

Please complete the items below by July 31, 2024.


Six Steps to Complete

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Look over the helpful details about the Required Education Courses. 


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Review the Child and Vulnerable Adult Safety policy.


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Complete the Child & Vulnerable Adult Abuse Awareness course. You 'll will receive an email invitation. The subject line will start with "Here is your link to the..." and will include your unique link to the MinistrySafe course.from learn@reliant.org and an additional email from Reliant with your enrollment information.

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Review the Workplace Harassment and Discrimination policy.


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Complete the appropriate Workplace Harassment and & Discrimination Prevention course for your staff level. course. You will receive an email from learn@reliant.org and an additional email from Reliant with your enrollment information. If you are a supervisor or leader, you will also need to complete the Supervisor Responsibilities portion of the course.


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Complete the Policy & Safety Review course. You will receive an email from learn@reliant.org and an additional email from Reliant with your enrollment information. 


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Complete the Ministry Experience Survey (optional but encouraged). You will receive an email from learn@reliant.org and an additional email from Reliant informing you of your enrollment in this SurveyHere is a direct link to Telios Teaches to log in and complete your training.


Helpful Questions to Get Started

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LEARN issues? email learn@reliant.org

MinistrySafe issues? email hr@reliant.org

Telios Teaches (Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Prevention):

MinistrySafe (Child Abuse Prevention):

Email learning@reliant.org. 


The Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Prevention Course you complete is dependent on your supervisory or staff level: 

  • Preventing Sexual Harassment & Discrimination in the Christian Workplace (length: 1.5 hours): Take this course if you do not have anyone reporting to you OR are not at a staff level of Pastor, Minister, Manager, or Director.
    • Manager Training 2021: Quelling Misconduct (length: 2.5 hours): Take this course if you supervise other Reliant staff OR are at a staff level of Pastor, Minister, Manager, or Director. 

    All employees must take the Abuse Awareness Course (length 1.5 hours).

    • For 2021, the Skillful Screening Course (length: 2.25 hours) is optional. This course may be helpful to you if you oversee a children's or youth ministry or if you are involved in interviews or the hiring process for staff or volunteers. If you would like to take the course and do not see it on your MinistrySafe home page, email learning@reliant.org.

    For most staff, the training will take about 3 hours. For staff in supervisory or leadership roles, the training will take about 4 hours. All of the courses can be taken at the user's own pace and they do not have to be completed in one sitting. Here's more detailed information about the Required Education Courses.

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    You'll begin receiving communication to your Reliant email address the week of June 14. And you will have until August 15, 2021, to complete the steps listed at the top of this page. We challenge you to complete these steps sooner, rather than later. It's at least 3 hours' worth of work.

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    titleI completed the courses as part of my New Staff Training with Reliant. Do I need to take them again?

    If you attended New Staff Training (NST) since January 2021 and completed the courses, you do not need to take them as part of the Annual Required Education for existing staff. All Reliant Staff that attended NST prior to January 2021 will need to complete them again as part of the Annual Required Education. 

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    If you are planning on exiting staff with Reliant before October 1, 2021, you do not need to take the courses this summer. If your Program Team is aware of your planned exit, they may have removed you from the list, and you should not have been emailed the links to the courses. However, if you did receive the links, please let your Program Team know so that they can note that you are excluded from the training requirement.

    Please see the Annual Required Education for Existing Staff for the full details.


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    Start with contacting your Program Team:

    You can also reach out to the HR Compliance team at learning@reliantat hr@reliant.org. 

    If you have any issues accessing LEARN, please contact learn@reliant.org.




    Reliant is committed to fostering a safe and healthy ministry environment for employees and for those to whom they minister. Therefore, it is beneficial for us all to be trained and educated on a regular basis on best practices around child safety and workplace harassment and discrimination prevention, two areas that are essential for creating safe ministry and work environments. It also gives you a chance to review the policies that are related to these topics. Plus, some states require annual training on workplace harassment, and this ensures that we are compliant with those state laws. 

    The Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Prevention courses by Telios Teaches have been updated for 2021 with new content. The Abuse Awareness training by MinistrySafe is the same course that you took in 2020, but it is such a vital topic for churches and ministries today that the information that is covered in the course must remain top of mind for anyone who works with children, youth, young adults, or any vulnerable population.

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    titleWhy did Reliant select Telios Teaches and MinistrySafe as vendors for this a vendor for New Staff Required Education training?

    Theresa Sidebotham, the instructor in the Telios Teaches courses, is an attorney and one of the leading experts in employment law for religious and nonprofit workplaces. She regularly presents at Missio Nexus conferences and events and is an Advisor at Large for Church Tax & Law. Plus, she was an "MK" and spent much of her childhood in Indonesia, where her family served as missionaries. You can learn more about Ms. Sidebotham and Telios Teaches here. 

    MinistrySafe MinistrySafe has literally trained millions of church and ministry staff members and volunteers since its inception. After decades of litigating sexual abuse cases, Gregory Love and Kimberlee Norris founded MinistrySafe to help ministries meet legal standards of care and reduce the risk of sexual abuse by creating preventative measures tailored to fit the needs of churches and ministry programs. With over 50 years of combined experience in sexual abuse litigation, consultation, and crisis management, Love and Norris understand the risk of sexual abuse and how it unfolds in children’s programming. You can learn more about MinistrySafe here.


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    We realize that not all of our Reliant Missionaries employees and Associates associates work directly with children under the age of 18 in their church or ministry. However, many do work with college-aged students, young adults, or other members of a vulnerable population who may be susceptible to grooming and abuse. The principles shared in the training can also apply to those groups. And even if you don't feel like what you learn about in the MinistrySafe course is relevant to your day-to-day work, we hope the training increases your awareness of the issue and teaches you how to help recognize and prevent sexual abuse in any context that you may be.    

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    When you reach part 4/4 Titled: Sexual Harassment Prevention: Apply What You've Learned, there will be four Story Quizzes. This is a chance for you to use what you learned in a real-life scenario. The quizzes are written in a "choose your own adventure" style in which different choices will lead you to different conclusions. You'll even have a chance to "try again" if you don't like the conclusion that you ended on. But don't worry; you are not graded on the Story Quizzes, and you will earn your certificate regardless of how you answered the questions.

    To complete each quiz, follow the steps below.

    1. Complete each Story Quiz by scrolling down the page or by clicking "OK."
    2. Select "Next" to move on to the next page.
    3. Most Quizzes will give you the chance to either try again or start over. You can decide if you want to see if different decisions will lead to a different consequence. Or you can say "no" and continue on to the end.
    4. Each Story Quiz will end when it gets to the "Conclusion" portion and you click "Done."
    5. Once each quiz is complete, a Survey Monkey slide will appear.
    6. Simply click on the blue "Continue" button to move on to the next quiz.
    7. Once you've completed all four quizzes, a "Congratulations" note will appear. 
    8. Click on "Get Your Certificate" and it will open a new page where you will be able to download your certificate for your records. (Note: you do not need to send your certificate to Reliant.)
    9. You may exit the course. 
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    You may send an exception request to Julie Thomas, HR Compliance Officer, at julie.thomas@reliant.org with your reason for the exception. Please copy your supervisor and Program Team on the email.


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    The courses are available to you, your supervisor, and your ministry leaders (even if Reliant does not employ them). You will need to complete the course on your own. However, we encourage you to discuss as a team how this information and the related policies may impact your ministry work. 


    Employee Level: Preventing Sexual Harassment & Discrimination in the Christian Workplace

    Content:
    1. Overview: Introduction
      • Religious Organizations, Harassment, & Discrimination
      • What We Will Cover in This Training
      • A Theological Basis for Preventing Harassment & Discrimination
    2. Overview: Secular Laws
      • Title VII and Accompanying Laws
      • Other Laws Against Harassment & Discrimination
    3. Overview: Definitions
      • What is Harassment? What is Discrimination?
      • Types of Harassment & Discrimination
    4. Overview: Reporting, Investigation, and Discipline
      • When & How to Report
      • What Investigations Are & Are Not
      • Discipline & Follow-Up
    5. Sexual Harassment Prevention: Introduction
      • Do Churches Have to Worry About Sexual Harassment?
      • A Theological Basis for Confronting Sexual Harassment
    6. Sexual Harassment Prevention: Definitions
      • What is "Sexual Harassment?"
      • Components of Sexual Harassment
    7. Sexual Harassment Prevention: Costs and Risks
      • Sexual Harassment Prevention: Financial Costs of Sexual Harassment
      • Sexual Harassment Prevention: High Risk Environments
    8. Sexual Harassment Prevention: Response and Discipline
      • How Can Churches and Ministries Guard Against Sexual Harassment?
    9. Sexual Harassment Prevention: Apply What You've Learned
      • Story Quiz 1: Overly Affectionate Coworkers
      • Story Quiz 2: "The Pence Rule"
      • Story Quiz 3: Teacher at a Religious School
      • Story Quiz 4: Social Media Problems

    2021 Manager Training: Quelling Misconduct

    The training includes the content in the Employee-level course outlined above and also:

    1. For Managers: Risks to Religious Organizations
      • Risks to Religious Organizations
      • PR Risks
    2. Manager Training: Leadership Responsibility
      • Managers and Responsibility
      • Faragher Ellerth Defense
    3. For Managers: How Training Helps
      • How Training Helps
      • Anti-Harassment & Anti-Discrimination Policies
    4. For Managers: Laws and How They Apply
      • How Laws Apply to Religious Organizations
    5. Manager Training: Reports and Reporting Mechanisms
      • Designing a Reporting Mechanism
      • What about Matthew 18 Policies
    6. For Managers: Beyond Reporting
      • Beyond Reporting
      • Retaliations: Don't Do It.
    7. For Managers: Caring for Complainants & Witnesses
      1. Addressing the Complainant
      2. Safety Plans
      3. Resignations, Criminal Allegations, and Investigations
    8. For Managers: Discipline and Follow-up
      • Disciplinary Decisions
      • Follow-Up
    9. Litigation and Common Mistakes
      • Litigation and Legal Proceedings
      • Common Mistakes
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    Email learning@reliantPlease email hr@reliant.org.


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    Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Prevention courses from Telios Teaches

    • English subtitles are available on all courses. Click the CC button in the right-hand corner of the video player to start closed captioning.
    • The courses are not available in any other language at this time.

    Abuse Awareness course from MinistrySafe for New Staff Required Education

    • A version of the course is available in Spanish, with both the video and quiz in Spanish. 
    • A version of the course is available with the following subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, and Thai. Click the CC button in the right-hand corner of the video player to select the preferred language. The quiz is in English.
    • Please email learning@relianthr@reliant.org to request the training link to the Spanish version or the Multilingual/Closed Captioned version.

    Skillful Screening course from MinistrySafe for New Staff Required Education

    •  English and Spanish subtitles are available on the course. Click the CC button in the right-hand corner of the video player to select the preferred subtitles.


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