Child, Adult, & Community Safeguarding

Child, Adult, & Community Safeguarding

Protection of children, youth, and adults served by your organization is essential to actualize its mission. We will partner with you to design, develop, and implement robust child, youth & adult safeguarding strategies, practices, protocols and conduct investigations for your organization.


What Types of Services Do We Offer?

Governance & Culture

  1. Policy, Procedures, and Protocol development (e.g., general, child-facing, elder-facing, Anti-Trafficking/Modern Slavery, protection against sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment or PSEAH, all-in-one policies, etc.)
  2. Safeguarding Framework including Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  3. Annual Safeguarding Plans (templates)
  4. Safeguarding Self-Assessment tools
  5. Safeguarding Strengths & Gap Analysis
  6. Safeguarding inclusion in Risk Registers & Risk Management Framework
  7. Safeguarding Communications, Marketing, and Media Guidelines
  8. Safeguarding Strategies and Infrastructure

Prevention

  1. Safer Recruitment
  2. Safer Programming (including budgeting, proposal writing, and project/ program design)
  3. Safe Partnerships
  4. Safe Technology (e.g., online, social media, indirect contact)
  5. Risk Assessments for project, program, and activities (templates, support)
  6. Volunteer Management
  7. Community Engagement & Child Participation protocols and plans

Training & Awareness (Engagement & Learning)

  1. Development and delivery of mandatory training
  2. Design of contextualized training
  3. Training of Trainers (ToT) or Facilitators (ToF)
  4. Verbal briefing scripts and training
  5. Awareness-raising materials tailored to children, adults, persons living in vulnerable communities, and organizational representatives
  6. Safeguarding Focal Point certification

Reporting

  1. Reporting Procedures
  2. Reporting Channels (e.g., how to establish, assess functionality, create hybrid mechanisms, and regularly test)
  3. Donor reporting requirements (e.g., creating donor library)
  4. Community Feedback Procedures

Response

  1. Intake Procedures (i.e., screening and triage)
  2. Response Procedures including Investigation Procedures
  3. Legal Mapping tool
  4. Safety & Risk Assessment for investigations
  5. Action Plans (for safety & risk assessments and investigation after-action)
  6. Investigations (e.g., conducted by Safe Organizations)
  7. Investigations training certification via SOLA
  8. Case Management (e.g., managed by Safe Organizations)
  9. Case Management certification via SOLA
  10. Aftercare Directory (template)
  11. Aftercare Delivery and Consultation (e.g., survivor care)
  12. Case Reviews

Other

Don't see a Safeguarding service or product you need? Please contact us and we will assess if we can provide the service or product.