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Telios Teaches (Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Prevention):
MinistrySafe (Child Abuse Prevention):
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The Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Prevention Course you complete is dependent on your supervisory or staff level:
All employees must take the Abuse Awareness Course (length 1.5 hours).
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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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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Telios Teaches 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 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 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 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.
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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. |
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Employee Level: Preventing Sexual Harassment & Discrimination in the Christian Workplace Content:
2021 Manager Training: Quelling Misconduct The training includes the content in the Employee-level course outlined above and also:
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Email learning@reliant.org. |
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Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Prevention courses from Telios Teaches
Abuse Awareness course from MinistrySafe
Skillful Screening course from MinistrySafe
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