Figuring out what needs to be in your camp ministry’s child and youth protection policy can be overwhelming. This session will tell you how to evaluate and improve your policies, one step at a time in order to build a camp-specific protection program. You also will learn how you can make child/youth protection not just another policy, but an integral and living part of your camp culture. In addition to screening and training, this webinar will address camp and overnight-specific safety measures to aid in camp and youth retreat contexts.
This event is free for ECAP Members and $20 for non-members.
Attendees will recieve a copy of Protecting Other People’s Children by our webinar presenters, Debbie Ausburn & Tom Rawlings.
Debbie Ausburn has served as a camp counselor and supervisor and has decades of experience in child welfare and youth organizations. She has spent more than 30 years as a social worker, foster parent, criminal prosecutor, and civil trial attorney. Her experience includes successful cases before the United States Supreme Court in constitutional claims, extensive work in free speech and religious freedom issues, and dozens of successful jury trials. That experience has given her a national presence with organizations that serve young people.
Ms. Ausburn’s background has given her unique insights into defending childcare centers, camps, schools, and mentoring organizations. She has conducted numerous investigations of claims of historic child abuse and sexual assault or harassment claims. She also advises youth-serving organizations about child protection policies, staff screening, conduct standards, cyberbullying, and best practices for protecting the children in their care.
Tom Rawlings has served as a juvenile court judge, Georgia child welfare ombudsman, Guatemala country director for International Justice Mission, director of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services, and attorney for youth organizations. He has spent more than 20 years representing and serving institutional clients with a focus on vulnerable populations, including children and families, juveniles, and individuals living with poverty, food insecurity, and medical disabilities.
During his time as the Guatemala country director for International Justice Mission, he built and led a team of Guatemalan professionals who worked with government prosecutors and courts to protect and treat child sexual abuse victims, prosecute offenders, and train child abuse professionals. He has trained child welfare, justice, and human rights professionals across the US as well as in Armenia, Romania, and Thailand.
The team of attorneys at Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman, LLC is dedicated to providing creative and effective solutions for our clients. We begin each client relationship by committing ourselves to understanding our client’s unique goals and objectives, and by ensuring we understand how the client defines a “win.” We then dedicate our considerable legal expertise, resources, passion and experience to achieving that result.
We value our clients and try to treat them like family. It is important to us that our clients sleep better at night knowing that we have their backs. And we get great pleasure in doing everything we can to help each client achieve a “win,” using that client’s own definition of what that term means in any given set of circumstances. Discover Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman
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