Crisis Response Webinar
FT Jeff Dalrymple
with Guest Host Julie Lowe
Responding to reports and allegations of abuse can be both an urgent and complex crisis for ministry leaders.
Whether you are responding to an internal allegation or reporting abuse from outside your ministry, what you do next can have lasting effects on victims, employees, volunteers, your own community, as well as your own career and witness before a watching world. Therefore, it is important to consider in advance how your church or ministry will manage crisis response. How and when should you report? How do you care for individuals impacted by abuse? How should you form and lead a crisis response team and who should that include? When and how should we notify parents, members, our congregation or other stakeholders? When do we need an attorney and how can my insurance company assist? This workshop is for any ministry leader including administrators, pastors, directors, board members, and trustees.
Jeff Dalrymple
is the Director of Abuse Prevention & Response for the SBC Executive Committee. Jeff has formerly served as executive director of the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention; and as a vice president at Southern Seminary in Louisville. His leadership experience also includes roles in public safety, higher education, non-governmental organizations, and parachurch ministry. Jeff is based in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife Kristil and their four children.
Julie Lowe
Julie Lowe is a former faculty member at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF). She holds an MA in counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary. She is a licensed professional counselor with over twenty-two years of counseling experience. She has extensive experience with marriage, women’s issues, sexual abuse, body image issues, parenting, and child maltreatment issues, and regularly speaks on these topics. Julie is a registered play therapist and has developed a play therapy office and resources to serve families and youth. She is trained in leading mandated reporter trainings and provides numerous trainings on child sexual abuse. Julie has a registered therapy dog that she works with both professionally and on a volunteer basis.
She has authored several books: Childproof: Parenting By Faith Not Formula, Building Bridges: Biblical Counseling Activities for Children and Teens, Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Your Worries are Big, and Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing the Hope.
