# Screening and Training

- Link: https://nweparchy.ca/training/
- Published: 2021-05-28T19:58:11-07:00
- Author: Website

# **Safe Environments**

**The policy for _Safe Environments and the Protection of Children, Youth and Vulnerable
Adults_ acknowledges the need to provide safe pastoral environments and protect 
those most vulnerable in our parish communities.**

**It establishes best practices not only to protect those to whom we minister, especially
children, youth and vulnerable adults, but also to ensure the integrity, safety 
and reputation of those who minister, namely, clergy, religious, staff and church
volunteers, and the ministries they provide.**

**Together, we can better promote wholeness, accountability, trust and care within
the Church by fulfilling our spiritual, ethical, moral, and legal responsibilities.**

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## Responsible Ministry

- Overview
- What is abuse?- Glossary and Further Reading

[Learn More](https://nweparchy.ca/policy/)

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## Screening and Training

- For Volunteers and Parishes
- For Clergy and Consecrated Persons- For Lay Employees
and the Eparchy

[Learn More](https://nweparchy.ca/training/)

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## Reporting and Responding to Abuse

- Report Abuse
- What happens when abuse is reported?- Care and Healing

[Learn More](https://nweparchy.ca/reporting/)

# **Screening and Training**

### **Volunteer and Employee Screening**

All parish and eparchial individuals providing ministry, including all clergy, religious,
seminarians, laity, employees and volunteers, will undergo volunteer and employee
screening according to eparchial procedures to determine their suitability for ministry
and/or employment.  This is to ensure current and new volunteers and employees meet
set standards and to ensure that ministries, programs and activities are managed
in a safe and professional way. 

 

Screening checks (police record checks) include information that is available to
police services at the time the check is being processed. There is no guarantee 
that the information will still be accurate and complete within a few months, weeks,
or even days. For this reason, applicants may be asked to repeat the process when
seeking new positions or when seeking a move to existing positions that they do 
not currently hold.

### **Safe Environment Training**

All parish and eparchial individuals providing ministry, including all clergy, religious,
seminarians, laity, employees, and volunteers, will undergo Safe Environment Training
as required by their ministry and/or employment.

 

Safe Environment Training teaches us how to identify abuse, not only in our Church,
but also in our families and communities, and sets standards of appropriate behaviour
within the Church so that inappropriate behaviour is easily noticeable and can be
addressed immediately.  It also teaches us when and how to report abuse to church
and civil authorities.

### **Requirements **

All parish and eparchial individuals providing ministry, including all clergy, religious,
seminarians, laity, employees and volunteers will:

 1.  a.  Complete a Police Record Check
     b.  Complete the online safe environments training modules
     c.  Complete the Ministry Suitability Form
     d.  Read the Sexual Abuse Policy of the Eparchy of New Westminster
     e.  Sign the Code of Conduct