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SUMMARY:Creating a Strong Camp Child & Youth Protection Program Webinar
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThis event is free for ECAP Members and $20 for non-members. \n\n\n\nAttendees will recieve a copy of Protecting Other People’s Children by our webinar presenters\, Debbie Ausburn & Tom Rawlings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout our Presenter:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDebbie 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. \n\n\n\nMs. 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. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTom 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. \n\n\n\nDuring 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. \n\n\n\nAbout our Sponsor: Chalmers\, Adams\, Backer & Kaufman\, LLC\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nWe 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
URL:https://ecap.net/event/creating-a-strong-camp-child-youth-protection-program-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:ECAP Events,Virtual Events
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SUMMARY:Public Relations For Ministries Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Public relations is more than communication or “spin”—it’s a reflection of leadership and how your church is perceived in the community. Positive PR plays a crucial role in crisis preparedness\, and we’ll explore how to build community goodwill\, craft statements\, designate a spokesperson\, and minimize the impact of challenging situations. This webinar will empower church leaders with practical strategies to ensure that their outreach\, events\, and ministry efforts foster a positive image of the church and ultimately point others to Jesus. You’ll learn how to publicize events and initiatives effectively by strengthening relationships with the media\, establishing a clear and consistent communication plan within your congregation\, and without appearing self-promotional.  \n\n\n\nWhether you’re new to PR or seeking to enhance your approach\, this session will provide actionable insights to help your church become a visible and trusted presence in the community. \n\n\n\nThis event will be free for ECAP Members and $25 for non-members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobbie Harper: Born and raised in Central Florida\, Robbie is a sixth-generation Floridian. Robbie attended college at Stetson University in DeLand\, Florida\, and upon graduation\, he entered his family’s agribusiness where he learned valuable skill sets such as branding\, leadership and supply chain management. He returned to Stetson and received his MBA.  \n\n\n\nAfter his family’s business was sold\, Robbie worked for a public relations company focusing on large\, corporate law firms. As a senior account executive\, he attained placements for clients in local\, regional\, and national media such as Fox Business\, the New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and the Washington Post.  \n\n\n\nRobbie founded Blue Bridge PR in 2015 out of the passion to be an entrepreneur\, but to also help small business leaders build a communications platform to propel growth. Since then\, he has worked to get results for his clients\, including key placements in national media such as Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.  \n\n\n\nIn 2023\, Robbie and his wife Nicole started the Sidebar Media Podcast\, a podcast where they interview media personalities and tell their personal stories.  \n\n\n\nRobbie lives in DeLand\, Florida. with his wife and three children and enjoys spending time outside fishing\, mountain biking and scuba diving. \n\n\n\nAbout Our Sponsor:  \n\n\n\nBlue Bridge Public Relations specializes in effective storytelling and strategic media communications. We collaborate with our clients to attain high-level media presence and create measurable increases in exposure. Your ability to communicate expertise in your field is the key to jumping ahead of your competitors.  \n\n\n\nDiscover Blue Bridge Public Relations
URL:https://ecap.net/event/public-relations-for-ministries-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Trauma Aware Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Trauma is a pervasive problem\, and many people feel ill-equipped to respond. What is trauma? And how do we offer help that is biblically faithful and empathetic?Licensed and trauma-trained counselor Eliza Huie will share helpful insight with us from her forthcoming book\, Trauma Aware. Her goal in writing this book was to equip helpers with biblical foundations and clinical insights to better understand trauma and offer care to those suffering from its debilitating effects. Trauma can entangle the soul\, freeze the body\, and cloud the mind. In the face of this struggle\, Eliza brings to us an essential resource and a compassionate and informative expertise to help you demystify trauma and care for others.  \n\n\n\nYou will learn how to: ·  understand the essential connections between brain\, body\, and soul \n\n\n\n·  promote healing through useful assessments and practical tools  \n\n\n\n·  improve care for others with proven strategies that lead to growth and change \n\n\n\n Whether you’ve personally experienced trauma or desire to help those who have\, this will provide you with practical direction on a path to recovery.  \n\n\n\nThis event will be free for ECAP Members and $20 for non-members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout our Presenter:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEliza Huie is a licensed clinical professional counselor and serves as the Director of Counseling at McLean Bible Church in Vienna\, Virginia. She holds certifications in biblical counseling from The Christian Counseling Educational Foundation (CCEF) and The Association of Biblical Counselors (ABC). She is also the author of several books including Raising Kids Emotionally Healthy Kids\, Teens and Anxiety: Help for Parents\, The Whole Life\, 52-Weeks of Biblical Self-care\, Count Yourself Clam\, I’m Stressed: A Path from Pressure to Peace\, Raising Kids in a Screen-Saturated World\, and other titles.
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