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The policies are live and the courses will launch on June 8, 2020. The steps below need to be completed by August 7, 2020. 

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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 information 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 will receive an email from learn@reliant.org and an additional email from Reliant with your enrollment information.

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Review the Read the updated Workplace Harassment and Discrimination policy.


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Complete the appropriate Sexual Workplace Harassment Prevention course for your staff level& Discrimination course. You 'll will receive an email invite from Telios Teachesfrom 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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Read the new Child and Vulnerable Adult Safety policy.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 appropriate Abuse Awareness course(s)- one course for all staff and an additional course for supervisors or leadersthe Ministry Experience Survey (optional but encouraged). You 'll receive two email invitations, one for each course, titled "Here is your link to the Child Abuse Awareness Training" with links to MinistrySafewill receive an email from learn@reliant.org and an additional email from Reliant informing you of your enrollment in this Survey.


Helpful Questions to Get Started

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LEARN issues? email learn@reliant.org

MinistrySafe issues? email hr@reliant.org

Reliant is committed to upholding the highest standards of behavior. Therefore, we take great care in creating policies and procedures that support a healthy and ethical culture. These specific policies have been put in place to ensure the safety of those doing ministry as well as those being ministered to. We believe the updates to the policy on sexual harassment (now called Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Policy) and our new Child and Vulnerable Adult Safety policy are extremely important additions to achieve these goals. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with all the new elements. 


From the two options, which Sexual Harassment Prevention Course you complete is dependent on your supervisory or staff level (see explanations below): 
  • Sexual Harassment Prevention for Employees (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.
    • Sexual Harassment Prevention for Managers (length: 2 hours): Take this course if you supervise other Reliant staff OR are at a staff level of Pastor, Minister, Manager, or Director. If you supervise volunteers or have other supervisory responsibilities and would like to take this course, go for it! The Managers course includes the same content as the one for employees plus about 30 minutes of additional material for supervisors.
  • All employees must take the first Abuse Awareness Course. Taking the second course is dependent on your supervisory or staff level: 
    1. Abuse Awareness (length: 1.5 hours): Take this course if you're a Reliant employee or Associate. 
    2. Skillful Screening (length: 2.25 hours): Take this course in addition to the Abuse Awareness course, if you supervise other Reliant staff OR are at a staff level of Pastor, Minister, Manager, or Director. If you are involved in interviews or the hiring process for staff or volunteers, this course is optional but recommended for you. Use your discernment or talk to your supervisor on if this course is right for you. 

    • For most staff, the training will take about 3 hours. For staff in supervisory or leadership roles, the training will take about 5 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 8. And you will have until August 7, 2020 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 four hours worth of work.

    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 team at hr@reliant.org. 

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




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    General Questions

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    titleWhy did Reliant select MinistrySafe as a vendor for New Staff Required Education training?

    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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    All Reliant Staff that attended New Staff Training (NST) as of May 2020 were required to complete the courses within 30 days of NST. If you attended NST since May 2020 and completed the course, you do not need to take them as part of the Annual Requirements for existing staff.

    Some Reliant Staff that are part of the Fixed Term program completed the Abuse Awareness training when they were hired. If you are a resident or intern and completed that training since January 2020, you do not need to complete that course as part of the Annual Requirements for existing staff. You will still need to complete the Sexual Harassment Prevention course

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    If you have taken courses on the topic of Sexual Harassment Prevention or Child Abuse Awareness in the last 12 months, you may request an exception. Email the following to Julie Thomas, HR Compliance Officer, as soon as possible:

    1. Name of the course
    2. Vendor/creator/author of course content
    3. Length of training
    4. Date you completed course
    5. Short description of course
    6. Proof of completion (if available)

    The exception is not guaranteed, and you may still be required to complete the course.

    General Questions

    Sexual Harassment Prevention for Employees

    • Ch. 1 Do Religious Organizations Need to Worry?
    • Ch. 2 Theology and the Secular Law
    • Ch. 3 The Definition of Sexual Harassment
    • Ch. 4 Organizational Policy & Procedure
    • Ch. 5 Investigation & Discipline
    • Vignettes that cover actual situations

    Sexual Harassment Prevention for Managers (additional content is highlighted in blue)

    • Ch. 1 Do Religious Organizations Need to Worry?
    • Ch. 2 Theology and the Secular Law
    • Ch. 3 Risks to Religious Organizations
    • Ch. 4 How Laws Apply to Religious Organizations
    • Ch. 5 The Definition of Sexual Harassment
    • Ch. 6 Organizational Policy & Procedure
    • Ch. 7 Policies and Reporting Mechanisms
    • Ch. 8 Investigation & Discipline
    • Ch. 9 Processing Compliants & Safety Plans
    • Ch. 10 Preparing for Investigation
    • Ch. 11 Internal Investigation Process
    • Ch. 12 Considerations When Dealing with Sexual Harassment
    • Supplement: Multicultural Work Places
    • Vignettes that cover actual situations
    I forgot my password or can't find the email with the training link
    don't work with children. Why do I need to take a course on Child Safety?

    We realize that not all of our Reliant employees and 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 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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    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 Lead on the email.


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    The courses are available to you, your supervisor

    and any non-Reliant ministry staff or volunteers your supervisor may think necessary. We recommend going through the content and quizzes on your own, but discussing

    , 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

    policy changes

    related policies may impact your ministry work.

    For example, maybe 

     


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    		What is the difference between the Sexual Harassment courses?
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    I think I was assigned the wrong course. What do I do?

    Telios Teaches (Sexual Harassment Prevention):

    MinistrySafe (Child Abuse Prevention):

    Email your Missionary Liaison (Kathy Zellinger, Bethany Orys, or Carly Erskine)

    Please email hr@reliant.org.


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    		Oops, I took the wrong Sexual Harassment training. What do I do?
    Are the courses available in other languages or with closed captioning?

    Sexual 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 hr@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.

    If you are not a supervisor or leader and took the Manager-level course, that's okay. You don't need to take the Employee version as all the content in the Manager-level course is in the Employee-level one.

    If you are a supervisor or leader and took the Employee-level training, you will need to take a few additional courses. See below for instructions on how to do that:

    Return to the Telios site and launch the Manager-level training. 

    Many of the “chapters” are the same, with some additional content in the Manager Level. So when you start the Manager-level course, and you begin a chapter that was in the Employer Level, you can just click the “Complete and Continue” button at the bottom to advance to the next chapter.

    Highlighted in blue below are the additional Manager-level chapters so that you can see the chapters that you need to still view. Just don’t forget to take the quiz at the end of the Manager-level course to get full credit!

    Manager-level Content:

  • Ch. 1 Do Religious Organizations Need to Worry?
  • Ch. 2 Theology and the Secular Law
  • Ch. 3 Risks to Religious Organizations
  • Ch. 4 How Laws Apply to Religious Organizations
  • Ch. 5 The Definition of Sexual Harassment
  • Ch. 6 Organizational Policy & Procedure
  • Ch. 7 Policies and Reporting Mechanisms
  • Ch. 8 Investigation & Discipline
  • Ch. 9 Processing Compliants & Safety Plans
  • Ch. 10 Preparing for Investigation
  • Ch. 11 Internal Investigation Process
  • Ch. 12 Considerations When Dealing with Sexual Harassment
  • Supplement: Multicultural Work Places
    • Vignettes that cover actual situations