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Safe Environment Lesson Plans
1. VIRTUS Lesson Plans - English and Spanish Note from the office of Safe Environment: "The Diocese of Green Bay has subscribed to these Lesson Plans from VIRTUS in September of 2016 to provide a consistent Safe Environment foundation for our children. It is the shared responsibility of parents, teachers and catechists to give our children the awareness and tools they need to overcome anyone who intends to do them harm. It is an expectation that all Catholic Schools and Faith Formation programs use these lesson plans. Additional resources to supplement and build on what is provided here" is available on this website. Supplemental Materials 1. K-8 Lesson Plan Set 1 Booklets (Written by Dawn Johnson from St. Anthony, Niagra)
from Angeline Heiberger (Good Shepherd Parish, Chilton) |
Virtual Safe Environment Lessons for RE students
The diocese had purchased the VIRTUS safe environment lesson plans for children in 2016. The expectation is that these lesson plans are the basis for all children’s safe environment training. All the lesson plans per grade level can be accessed from the diocesan website. Hovering over the Protecting Our Children tab across the top, click on Lesson Plans and Resources for Children. All of the lesson plans are downloadable and all the videos are available to all. The leader of the virtual learning experience can pull pieces of information from the various lesson plans to address the different grade levels that may be present. It’s also a great opportunity for adults to have the information shared with them as a reminder of what they learned in their safe environment training and to support enforcing it. Here is a link to the lesson plans: https://www.gbdioc.org/protecting-our-children/safe-environment-lesson-plans-and-resources-for-children Virtual Instruction/Youth Meetings (Safe Environment) As long as teachers/catechists are using a delivery platform approved by the school/parish and the invitation to the session either goes through or copies parents, and parents are invited to sit in and the site leader (Principal or Pastor) is invited and occasionally joins that is pretty similar to how the physical classroom works from a Safe Environment standpoint. There should be an expectation on the part of the teacher/catechist that the DRE or RE coordinator or some other Virtus trained adult may pop in to the virtual session at any point during the session. It would be a best practice for the DRE/CRE or the pastor to pop in to each session/breakout room if possible. It would be better still, to always have another Virtus trained adult in the session with your teacher/catechist. Safe Environment Social Communications Policy
Click Here for Policies General Safe Environment Information 1. How to Report Abuse 2. Safe Environment Website 3. Virtus Training 4. Virtus Online Training 5. Safe Environment Information 6. Safe Environment List of Lesson Plan Resources 7. Safe Environment Opt Out Form 8. Safe Environment Policies_Diocese of Green Bay |