Joy Thornburg Melton, Safe Sanctuaries: Reducing the Risk of Abuse in the Church for Children and Youth. Discipleship Resources, 2008.
Referenced in: Church Administration – Tax, Legal, and Risk Management
Companion volume: Melton, Safe Sanctuaries for Ministers
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is recognized as the standard on the issue of creating safe environments for children in churches. It includes:
- Recruiting, screening, and hiring workers
- Basic procedures for safe ministry with children and youth
- Safe sanctuaries for seniors and vulnerable adults
- Developing a plan for responding to allegations
- Implementation strategies for congregations
- A model for training workers
- Sample forms
From the Publisher
This ten year anniversary edition of the best-selling Safe Sanctuaries series brings together in one volume the transformative and foundational information found in Joy Melton’s previous two volumes. Today it is still the only resource of its kind to offer the tools necessary to train leaders of the church, so that the next generation of leaders is safe. This new volume is updated and includes valuable information on keeping children and youth safe from predators who approach them via the internet.
About the Author
Joy Thornburg Melton is a Christian educator and a family and church law attorney in Atlanta, GA. An ordained deacon in the North Georgia Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, she has written United Methodist curriculum and the books Safe Sanctuaries: Reducing the Risk of Child Abuse in the Church and Safe Sanctuaries for Youth. Joy has become a recognized national leader in the area of developing abuse prevention policies. She has provided training and consultation for numerous annual conferences and other groups on this topic. For the last several years, Rev. Melton has been working with her conference in the area of risk reduction for children and abuse issues. Recently she has been providing risk reduction management training for the camp counselors at Camp Glisson in North Georgia. She is uniquely qualified to understand both the legal and church issues related to abuse with the church.
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