planning for the safety of minors: routine and emergency situations
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Planning for the Safety of Minors: Routine and
Emergency Situations May 17, 2016
Ann H. Franke, Esq. Wise Results LLC Washington DC
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Who Are All These Kids Running Around?
Who’s Responsible For Them?
Not Me, I Hope!
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Today’s Program 1. Institutional Approaches to Child Safety
2. Challenges in Emergency Planning
& Response
3. Abuse & Neglect Reporting
4. Children Separated from Parent or Program
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1. INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES TO CHILD SAFETY
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Your institution may have a centralized, decentralized, or “wild west” approach to child safety.
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What youth programs are occurring on your campus today? Off campus?
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More Questions to Ask • Who’s got contact info for parent or
guardian of each child? Who should have it?
• What do we expect of outside groups that rent our facilities for youth programs?
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Some Compliance Issues Federal Law
• Clery Act • FERPA for enrolled
minors • Civil rights, e.g.,
– Disability – Harassment, assault – Age discrimination
• OSHA
State Law
• Camp licensing • Health & safety • Staffing ratios • Transportation • Emergency planning • Abuse & neglect reporting
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2. EMERGENCY PLANNING & RESPONSE
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Have a comprehensive emergency plan blending higher ed with principles for camps and K-12 schools.
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Kids’ Needs in Emergencies • Supervision • Emotional support • Communication • Nourishment • Shelter – cribs, playpens • Diapers!
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Check your state laws on camps. www.acacamps.org/resource-library/state-laws-regulations
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3. ABUSE & NEGLECT REPORTING
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Are you a mandatory reporter of child abuse & neglect in your state? At your institution?
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Suspicions to be reported • Child abuse • Child neglect • Of person under the state’s age of
majority
Reports of abuse & neglect in the home are more likely than in college program.
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Find your state law on abuse & neglect reporting at the Child Welfare Information Gateway.
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www.childwelfare.gov
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Let’s Get Operational.
Reporting Suspicions of Child Abuse
Within institution
To state government
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Decide in advance who would conduct a forensic interview of a child.
Interview should be: Child-centered Developmentally sensitive Unbiased Legally defensible
TRAINED interviewer!
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Integrate children into campus public safety SOP’s. • Temporary custody of kids • Domestic abuse investigation • Transport of kids • Care for kids who are under custody of
victim or suspect • Child abuse reporting • Protecting suspected child abuse victims
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4. CHILDREN SEPARATED FROM PARENT OR PROGRAM
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Releasing a child to an unauthorized adult is dangerous.
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Plan for lost kids at graduation and other public events.
• Develop procedures
• Train ushers
• No adult alone with kid in private – Two adults – Open-sided tent
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Develop a protocol for searching for a missing child.
• Coordinated – Code Adam – Team Adam
• Time critical
• Staff training
• Aquatics search – Swimming pool – Open water
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Unaccompanied minors on campus pose special challenges.
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Check out the Resource Materials. You’ll find, among other items: • Forensic child interview training • Lost camper protocols • Public safety procedures • Unaccompanied minors policies • Suggested rental contract terms • Federal and state law compliance analysis
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Youth Protection Network for Higher Education
• Began in 2013 • 180+ members • Monthly conference calls • List serve • Resource sharing • Benchmarking • FREETo join, contact [email protected]
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Thank You! Ann H. Franke
Wise Results LLC 2555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 218 Washington DC 20037 [email protected]
202-725-5044
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