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The policies are live and 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 Harassment and Discrimination Prevention course for your staff level. Workplace Harassment & Discrimination 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 SurveyYou'll receive an email invite from Telios Teaches.


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 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 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 course by Telios Teaches has 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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titleWhich course What courses do I take? How long will it take?

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


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.
    • Quelling Misconduct: Sexual Harassment Prevention for Managers (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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    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

    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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    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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    titleHow do I complete the Story Quizzes 1-4 on Telios Teaches at the end of the course?

    When you reach part 4/4 Titled: Sexual Harassment Prevention: Apply What You've Learned, there will be four Story Quizzes. To complete each quiz, follow the steps below.

    1. Complete each quiz
    2. Once each quiz is complete, a Survey Monkey slide will appear
    3. Simply click on "Complete & Continue" to move on to the next quiz
    4. Once you've completed all four quizzes, a note will appear saying, "Congratulations! You completed Flagship Training 2021: Preventing Sexual Harassment & Discrimination in the Christian Workplace!"
    5. Click on "Get Your Certificate" and it will open a new page where you will be able to download your certificate for your records
    6. Then you can exit the course
    forgot my password or can't find the email with the training link. What do I do?

    Telios Teaches (Sexual Harassment Prevention):

    MinistrySafe (Child Abuse Prevention):

    • Email your Missionary Liaison (Kathy Zellinger, Bethany Orys, or Carly Erskine)
    Oops, I took the wrong Sexual Harassment training
    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 your ministry leaders (even if

    they are not employed by Reliant

    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

    policy changes

    policies may impact your ministry work.

    This is especially applicable to staff who work with children and youth (ages 17 and under) or vulnerable adults as the Child and Vulnerable Adult Safety policy and guidelines is new for Reliant.
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    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
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    think I was assigned the wrong course. What do I do?

    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 watch a few additional chapters. 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

    Please email hr@reliant.org.


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    Sexual

    Harassment 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 
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    • 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.