Creating Safe and Sacred Places

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Creating Safe and Sacred Places

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Creating Safe and Sacred Places for Young Adolescents
Sexual Abuse Educational Sessions for 5th to 8th Graders
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978-0-88489-983-9
$20.95

Your ministry with young people begins by building relationships that include appropriate boundaries. Creating Safe and Sacred Places is the first resource of its kind in response to The Charter for the Protection of Children and Youth (issued by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops). The charter calls, in part, for dioceses, schools, and parishes to establish "safe environment" programs.

Creating Safe and Sacred Places is written by an expert in the field of sexual abuse and by a veteran youth minister. The manual provides information on procedures and strategies to promote a safe environment, including material for training parents, ministers, educators, and church personnel in identifying, preventing, and healing sexual abuse.

Creating Safe and Sacred Places for Young Adolescents was written in response to the ever-growing need to educate young adolescents (grades 5-8) in the prevention of sexual abuse. The manual includes three sixty-minute educational sessions for 5th and 6th graders, as well as three sixty-minute sessions for 7th and 8th graders.