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NESA NETWORKED LEARNING

Child Protection Response Team Member Workshop Level 1

Offered by NESA in partnership with ECIS & the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC)

NESA ECIS ICMEC
LED BY DEBBIE DOWNES

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DATE

NOV 7, 14 & 21, 2024

CERTIFICATE

CERTIFICATE OFFERING

ELIGIBILITY

OPEN TO ALL SCHOOLS

COST

INDIVIDUAL

AUDIENCE

FOR CP RESPONSE TEAMS

EVENT TYPE

ONLINE


SUPPORTED BY
International Schools Services

Strengthen your school's child protection safeguarding with this in-depth ICMEC training.

School-based child protection team members are invited to participate in this foundational workshop, which offers deep training through six essential synchronous modules:

      1. Rights-Based Child Protection
      2. Online Safety
      3. Policies and Procedures
      4. Establishing a Team Approach
      5. ITFCP Managing Allegation Protocol
      6. First Responder Training

Within these modules, we will delve into additional topics including:

      • Definitions and possible indicators of abuse
      • Professional boundaries
      • Creating a school climate of safeguarding
      • The grooming process
      • Child-on-child abuse

Case studies will be employed throughout to support schools in strengthening safeguarding procedures. Resources and support for whole staff training will be provided through the training-of-trainers approach.

Participants will earn an ICMEC Level I Certificate upon completion of the workshop, valid for three years.

OUTCOMES

      • Understand child protection accreditation standards and foundational beliefs.
      • Determine needed policies and stages of implementation.
      • Identify supporting resources, including ITFCP Allegation Protocol, audits, and CP policy samples.
      • Work as a team to enhance or create CP policies and procedures.
      • Prioritize supplemental policies.
      • Understand basic victim and offender behavior.

Prerequisites

Prior to beginning this Level 1 course, participants will be asked to complete to complete 4 self-paced, asynchronous training modules that make up ICMEC’s “Intro to Safeguarding” asynchronous course. Each module will take roughly 45 minutes to complete. After successfully completing all 4 modules, participants will be issued a Certificate of Completion for the Intro to Safeguarding course. Participants will be asked to share those certificates at the completion of the synchronous course in order to receive the final Level I Certificate.

AUDIENCE

This training is recommended for all child protection team members, including:

      • Child protection designates and deputies
      • Senior leaders and designated board members
      • Counselors
      • HR professionals
      • Athletic and activity directors
      • Nurse/medical staff
      • Staff with special child protection responsibilities (IT, SEL, trips/service learning) and curriculum areas of vulnerability (early years, special needs/SEN, athletics, music, performing arts)

SCHEDULE

The three 2-hour sessions will take place on Thursdays, from 2:00-4:00pm Athens, Greece time (GMT+2):

      • Session 1: November 7, 2024
      • Session 2: November 14, 2024
      • Session 3: November 21, 2024

Debbie Downes

DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL SCHOOL INITIATIVES, ICMEC

In August 2022, Debbie Downes joined the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children as the Director of Global School Initiatives. In this role, she develops and provides child protection training, support, and resources to schools around the world. She has been supporting ICMEC’s work as a regional trainer since July 2020.

Debbie has worked in international education for 18 years, first as an elementary teacher, then as school principal, and then as Accreditation and Child Protection Lead for Quality Schools International. She developed and revised handbooks, policies, and resources to support child protection efforts at a group of 36 international schools. She also supported schools with on-site and virtual professional development.

Debbie’s background in child protection includes an MSW from the University of California at Berkeley and several years of experience working in the court unit of Children and Family Services in Contra Costa County, California. Debbie’s overseas career began with three years as a health education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Kolda, Senegal. She has since lived with her husband, two children, and two rescue dogs in Thailand, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Slovenia, and her current location of Minsk, Belarus.   


Registration Fees

  • NESA A/OS-assisted Schools: $50 / person. Please email maria@nesacenter.org for the discount code.
  • Non-A/OS Assisted NESA Member & Affiliate Schools: $125 / person.
  • Non-Member Schools: $155 / person

ECIS Member & ECIS A/OS Schools: please contact events@ecis.org to request your discount code.

NOTE: Promo codes must be entered during registration, and cannot be applied retroactively to paid invoices.

For program-related inquiries, please contact ICMEC Director of Global Initiates Debbie Downes at ddownes@icmec.org.
For registration assistance and all other inquiries, please contact maria@nesacenter.org.