The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention has published "Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures."
Designed to assist youth service organizations in adopting strategies to prevent child sexual abuse, the guide identifies key components of child abuse prevention and describes goals and strategies for each. The report includes discussion of screening and selecting employees and volunteers, monitoring behavior, ensuring safe environments, responding to allegations and suspicions of child sexual abuse, and training for sexual abuse prevention.
