Participate in Church Safety and Sexual Abuse Awareness Training
MinistrySafe Training hosted by Denver Seminary, Sat., April 9, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. (MST)
Littleton, Colo. – Ministry leaders and staff are invited to attend a church safety and sexual abuse awareness training webinar led by MinistrySafe and hosted online by Denver Seminary on Sat. April 9, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m., MST. The online event is free and open to the public. Learn more and register at: DenverSeminary.edu/MinistrySafe.
The training will address common misconceptions, offender characteristics, offenders’ “grooming process,” common grooming behaviors, indicators and impact of abuse, peer sexual abuse, and reporting requirements.
MinistrySafe works to help ministries meet the legal standards of care and reduce the risk of sexual abuse litigation. The training will be led by Kimberlee Norris, director and co-founder of MinistrySafe. Norris is a sexual abuse trial attorney, who represents victims of abuse and provides crisis management and allegation response counsel to child-serving organizations.
This training is vital for church staff, volunteers, pastors, lay leaders, students, and ministry professionals, so they are better equipped to protect children in their care.
Since its inception, MinistrySafe has worked with more than 20,000 organizations and has trained over 1.2 million staff members and volunteers, on six continents in various languages. On average, MinistrySafe trains 30,000-35,000 people each month—live and online.
For more information and to register, visit: DenverSeminary.edu/MinistrySafe. For more information, contact Andrea Weyand, senior director of communications.
About Denver Seminary – is a non-denominational graduate school of theology located in Littleton, Colo. The Seminary’s mission is to prepare men and women to engage the needs of the world with the redemptive power of the gospel and the life-changing truth of Scripture. Established in 1950, Denver Seminary offers on-campus, fully online, and hybrid degree programs, and has an extension campus in Washington DC and a Korean Global Program. In addition, the Seminary offers programming for lay ministry through its Hispanic Church Program and Black Church Program.
About MinistrySafe – MinistrySafe’s mission is to protect children and those who serve them. 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 by creating preventative measures tailored to fit the needs of churches and ministry programs.