The elements of Cares include the following:

• Six online training courses

Courses for Supervisors, Professional and Other Staff Working in Nonprofit Organisations on the following topics:

• Seven Principles of Youth Protection,
• Screening Employees and Volunteers,
• Responding to Abuse Allegations and Incidents,
• Youth Protection Policies,
• Principles of Youth Development, and
• Bullying Awareness and Prevention.

In the future additional online training courses on various topics will be introduced as we receive user feedback.

• Best Practices Inventory

This component contains several dozen informative factsheets on a wide range of youth protection topics, including interviewing prospective staff, application forms, disciplinary measures, programme design, safety education for parents and children, and more.

In the future additional best practices on various topics will be introduced as we receive user feedback.

• Resources

The following resources are available free if you are Cares subscriber:

• Downloadable Books - Two informative texts are available:

• The Season of Hope: A Risk Management Guide for Child and Youth-Serving Nonprofits - This informative guide covers a wide range of issues, from youth development to child abuse prevention, and

• More Than a Matter of Trust: Managing the Risks of Mentoring - If your nonprofit provides mentors this book contains helpful information on managing risks that emerge in mentoring programmes.

• Web Links relating to risk management, child and youth protection, bullying, mentoring and other risk management topics.

In the future additional resources on various topics will be introduced as we receive user feedback.

• My Risk Evaluator

www.myriskevaluator.com.au

My Risk Evaluator is a web-based risk management tool specifically designed for Australian schooling, child care, nonprofit, religious, aged care, volunteering and community organisations. The modules within My Risk Evaluator assist organisations in understanding the basic concepts of risk management, as well as provide help identifying risks.

The programme offers specific recommendations, checklists and templates to help your organisation manage critical risks.

For further information about My Risk Evaluator, please download, view or print the My Risk Evaluator background information document and brochure at www.myriskevaluator.com.au.

The flexibility of the Cares website and the ease with which it can be updated, customised to your organisation's needs and supplemented are invaluable and cost-effective features that cannot be duplicated in more traditional risk management tools, such as in-person workshops, loss prevention manuals and the like.

Recent media coverage has reinforced the need for child and youth serving organisations to have in place effective risk management procedures to protect children from harm. These procedures are in addition to the various screening processes eg police checks, currently being implemented or undertaken across the various States in Australia.

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