At the 2019 Susquehanna Annual Conference, it was announced that the Safe Sanctuaries training would be delivered online, to provide for greater consistency of training and the ability to better track background checks for all of our children and youth volunteers. The new online training platform: MinistrySafe is now available.
MinistrySafe was created by legal professionals who are sexual abuse experts. 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. Used by several other United Methodist Conferences across the country, MinistrySafe trains 25,000-30,000 people each month—live and online. Their mission is to prevent child sexual abuse in ministry contexts.
Every church has an organization profile where they can create user profiles for all of their staff and volunteers, and they can upload all clearances to be stored digitally.
The October roll out for our new online Safe Sanctuaries platform was a little bumpy, but working together we identified a coding error and resolved all of our “known” issues. Thank you for your patience.
You can find more information, a step by step guide, and the training links at susumc.org/safe-sanctuaries. Training does not need to be completed in one session - you can come back to it.
We are requiring our churches fully implement the program beginning January 1, 2020. For those needing immediate Safe Sanctuaries Trainings, in-person training will be honored through the end of 2019. Please contact safesanctuaries@susumc.org with any questions.
If you have problems, let us know by email at safesanctuaries@susumc.org or call 717-766-7441 and our staff can help you.
Thank you for putting children first!
