Adopt Child-Safe Standards

Preserving Their Innocence: Standards for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

If we hope to end child sexual abuse, we need to engage youth-serving organizations as leaders in the prevention effort to help them become places where policies and practices at every level better protect children in their care. Organizations in New Jersey serving youth, share in the responsibility to take reasonable, necessary, and appropriate steps to protect youth from the risk of child sexual abuse while they are under the care or supervision of employees or volunteers. To that end, we have outlined a series of policy and procedural actions that organizations which serve youth should take to protect children from the risk of child sexual abuse.