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Primary Activities/Services
Eliminate risk-exposure of
children to sexual abuse from (Problem One) detectable
predators with criminal histories who apply or volunteer, and
from (Problem Two) undetectable predators without criminal
histories who have already infiltrated program staffs.
______ Serial preferential sexual predators, the ones
responsible for the majority of victims, must infiltrate
children's programs in order to feed their craving for a
new victim every few months. They are undetectable
because they are expert at deception, at earning and
maintaining high trust, and at looking "perfect." In
fact, research shows such predators face a detection risk of
only 3%. The rest, 97%, are never apprehended. This means only
3% will have a criminal history. These comprise the Problem
One predators who are readily screened out with today's
background checks. But the risk exposure of
the children remains high despite good Problem One screening.
This occurs because Problem Two predators, the UNdetectable
kind, are thirty-two times more prevalent, and because Problem
One screening does not contain the tools necessary to address
Problem Two. In addition, Problem One screening is all that is
needed to almost eliminate the threat of losing a lawsuit for
"negligent selection." It is tempting for
leaderships to portray Problem One screening as both necessary
and sufficient to protect the children. It truly is necessary,
but definitely not sufficient. It is only sufficient to
protect against losing the lawsuit. ______
The New Precautions eliminate Problem Two risk exposure
because they cause predators to self-select and quietly,
voluntarily, depart from the staff on a pretext. This occurs
because The New Precautions interrupt the opportunity to groom
future victims, a calamity for the serial pedophile. Part of
the uniqueness of The New Precautions is that this is
accomplished without naming or shaming any individuals. It
thus avoids the large liability which occurs when Problem One
methods are misapplied in an attempt to screen out Problem Two
predators.
Protect high-profile groups from being blind-sided by delayed
complaints alleging sexual abuse in the distant past by one of
"your"
current workers or past trainees.
______Most victims are terrorized into dependable silence
for life...a very unhappy and confused life, and one that
infects succeeding generations. Some, however, emerge from
therapy decades later and complain anew, this time in a more
sympathetic era, as capable credible adults. With the help of
victims' groups the victims readily locate their tormentor who
has perhaps been your trusted worker for years without
complaint. Now it will be your turn (as the employer) to be
"abused."
______ Since
the criminal statute of limitations has likely run out the
victim's hope for redress comes from your (the high-profile employer's) insurance
source. To exert leverage, the Press is baited with a
sensational story, that "you" selected someone you
"knew-or-should-have-known" was a pedophile to care for the children. Panicky parents provide
the drama as on-scene reporters thrust microphones into car
windows. (Click on the TV news story, lower right corner of
this website's home page.) After the forced settlement, the
reputation of the employer, who may have relied on criminal history
background checking if any checking was done way back then, is
wrecked. It was simply "collateral damage" from the
victim's quest for revenge. ______
SHR's tools for addressing Problem Two may be the only vaccine against this tactic. Knowledge
of workers' and graduates' Appearances of Potential for
Complaint prevents being blind-sided by the tactic. If the
complaint potential appears great enough in any individual
case, action is indicated to preclude bearing the effects of
the complaint, or to preclude the complaint itself. Need for
this proactive form of risk management can be estimated by
running a statistical sample of backgrounds through the
licensed SHR process.
Provide the policy, procedure, and training required to be
safe from Problem One and Problem Two predators.
______ Acquiring SHR's license includes a policy and
procedures draft document, coordinated with your insurance
coverage and made specific to the various programs run by the
organization. The document provides SHR a means to conduct
practical inspections for compliance with its processes so
that the accreditation can be renewed. Training of staff,
children and parents is available from professional sources
through SHR to provide additional safety values and avoid
vulnerability to fake complaints. Compile
and deliver detailed background dossiers discerning
Appearances of Potential for Complaint, with a confidential
process for handling them that doesn't name or shame anyone.
______ The dossier part of the Problem Two solution is provided only to the worker herself
or himself, not to organization leadership. This gives the
worker a confidential means to rid the dossier of mistaken
data, such as when a namesake's data is included. SHR helps
get the data corrected, but does not bear fees that may be
charged by the data originators, unless SHR is the originator
such as with interview results. To see a list of the
proprietary inquiry methods used by SHR, visit this link:
http://www.IntellAssure.com/about_us.htm ______
Appearances of Potential for Complaint are detailed in the
dossier for the worker, but only summarized as to category in
a small table on the front page. It is this table the worker
is asked to voluntarily disclose in a private interview with
the organization's designated interviewers. ______
Interviews as well as data disclosure can be declined without
any clouding of a worker's reputation. Due to having
previously installed benign policies of job rotation and
apprenticeship, leadership assures workers are already
accustomed to exchanging roles and training apprentices who
accompany them while on the job with the children. Those whose
complaint potential seems high but who decline interviews or
fail to satisfy interviewers, will simply be offered bona
fide roles that lack "foreseeable opportunity for
unaccompanied contact with enrolled children." Of no
consequence to sincere workers, such reassignment is a
calamity for the (undetectable) serial pedophile who has set up an assembly
line to groom potential victims. This is the key to using the
data to deflect, not detect, infiltrated predators.
Alert parents and communities where The New Precautions are in
effect, through accreditation with the Seal of Safer Selection
Practices.
______ Accreditation is signified by publicizing and
displaying the Seal in local news, national news releases, on
table tops, windows, websites, and brochures. (Download the
Press and broadcast accounts of SHR by clicking on the
"In the Press" tab at the top menu row on the home
page.) ______ Local
publicity includes the special number 88-88-BE-SURE
(888-823-7873) which parents dial to see if their children's
programs are pursuing accreditation yet. Publicizing
the Seal, even where organizations are just beginning to
pursue accreditation, is healthy for a community because of
the "Sentinel Effect." Predators perhaps
infiltrating other nearby organizations are natural long-range
planners. They are intensely curious about SHR, and will
conclude that their program may be likely to adopt SHR's
Problem Two methods in the future. This affect their plans,
and begins ridding the entire community of infiltrated
predators who realize a threat to their habit, far more
serious than "detection," is looming.. Collaborate
with national groups to apply credible research findings for
improving child protection.
_______ SHR collaborates with Mothers Against Sexual
Abuse, several investor groups, local governmental and police
sources, and is a member and participates in the International
Child Abuse Symposia as well as regional meetings of Child
Advocacy Centers. SHR is a member of the Association for
Sexual Abuse Prevention and the National Association of
Professional Background Screeners. All the published research is monitored for
citations of new work. An example is the recent national
finding that child sexual abuse has been reduced by 40%.
Welcome on any basis, the reduction seems to have occurred
mostly for in-the-home abuse, not the extrafamilial kind where
Problems One and Two are found..
Deliver invited national workshops on "Solving the
Liability Dilemma in Worker Screening"
_______SHR is an invited workshop presenter for the
California Association for Education of Young Children (CAEYC-the
trade association for commercial child care), the Social
Enterprise Alliance, and the American Professional Society on
the Abuse of Children. Its founder provides program material
and speeches for Rotary, Sertoma, and other businesspersons'
service clubs on the topic, "Well Done on Problem One,
What do we Do about Problem Two?" The talks illustrate the liability dilemma and
highlight the disservice to children of portraying Problem One
screening as a solution to Problem Two infiltration.
Conduct professionally controlled experiments to test
specificity and accuracy of new screening profiles to thwart
Problem Two (undetectable) predators.
_______ SHR's advisory board epidemiologist has proposed
well controlled experimental protocols which will test and
continuously improve the SHR profiling model adapted from the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and author
FBI profiler Kenneth Lanning. (Download Mr. Lanning's
excellent profiling material from our home page, lower
left-hand corner.) ______
SHR has submitted proposals to, and is under contract with, a
large chapter of the
world's most recognized brand of mentoring. Implications from
experiments to be conducted by SHR and the mentoring agency's
own screeners may improve their insurability due to
significant reduction of risk to which their child clients are
exposed.
Participate in professional associations to improve the
legislative and legal environment for protecting children from
abuse. ______ SHR
participates on the Ethics Subcommittee's Consumer Protection
group of the National Association of Professional Background
Screeners, and is currently working with the Social Security
Administration to develop a means to ethically address the
problem of multiple users of the same social security number.
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