Plan to Correct

The YMCA of Greater Tulsa publicly demonstrates our commitment to safety and adherence to the highest standards in abuse prevention. To uphold these standards, we have joined Praesidium Academy. This gives our organization access to best practices, written resources to strengthen prevention efforts, and consultation with our expert. Our staff will all be required to complete these trainings before returning to our Day Camp program: • Abuse Risk Management for Supervisors: Supervising for Safety (Required for all Supervisors) • Keeping Your Day Camp Safe (Required for all staff) Additionally, all staff are required to review and provide an updated signature on our Employee Handbook. An in-person training course will be held to review items 14.1 and 12.8 from our policies and procedures that they will be held accountable. 14.1 Youth-to-Youth Interactions Employees and volunteers must effectively monitor and supervise youth-to-youth interactions to prevent inappropriate youth behaviors and abuse. When supervising youth, it is important to remember that adult employees and volunteers’ model appropriate behavior, and youth should not determine what is and is not acceptable behavior. Employees and volunteers should ensure: • Youth interactions are age and developmentally appropriate. • Youth respect each other’s boundaries. • Youth are not bullying, teasing, dominating, or displaying sexualized behaviors toward others. • Youth solve problems without fighting. • Youth are not engaging in one-on-one interactions together that aren’t observable or interruptible. • Appropriate adult-to-youth ratios, as defined by the YMCA, depending on the activity and age of youth. Employees and volunteers will utilize monitoring and supervision best practices such as line of sight supervision, zone monitoring and listening and observing for inappropriate behaviors between youth. Using these methods, employees and volunteers consistently monitor high-risk areas and activities where inappropriate behavior between youth is most likely to occur. 12.8 Child Protection Policy We take our responsibility to those we serve very seriously. The safety and well-being of children in our care always has been and always will be a top priority. Each employee & volunteer has a legal responsibility to make sure that actual or perceived child abuse is not happening to our members or program participants inside or outside of the YMCA. Policy: A principal endeavor of the YMCA is to provide a healthy atmosphere for the growth and development of youth and children. Because of its concern for the welfare of children, the YMCA has developed procedures, standards, guidelines, and training to aid in the detection and prevention of child abuse or neglect. In addition, all employees are screened, and a background check conducted upon hiring, rehiring or at any time the YMCA desires to do so. All volunteers are also screened. Additionally, all employees, volunteers, parents, etc. are given child protection information or have the opportunity for training in recognizing, reporting and preventing child abuse. For more information regarding safety of children and our YMCA staff expectations please read the Code of Conduct.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-287(a) - Supervision. Supervision is the function of observing, overseeing, and guiding a child or group of children, including an awareness of, and responsibility for, the ongoing activity of each child, and being near enough to intervene when needed. The program is required to maintain supervision at all times.