Preemptive Strategies
This nominal feat will make preventing unwanted behaviors or incidents much less likely to happen.
What is learn every Childs' name?
This safety practice should happen before leaving, upon arrival and every thirty minutes.
What is Head count?
When a Youth Worker puts on their work glasses they see risk management these opposite lenses.
What are Positive Risk Taking and Negative Risk Mitigation?
You'll be all wet if you refuse to do this on a beach or pool trip.
What is go into the water?
DAILY DOUBLE-What the Scenario?
During a kickball game, the ball hits an overhead light knocking it off from one of its four chains connecting it to the ceiling, act out a scene including the three things you should do which are...
What are, clear children and staff from the area below the damaged light, report the broken equipment to your Center Director and fill out an incident form, if asked to?
Before you leave the youth center with young people, you must have these three safety supports.
What are; off-site lists, first aid kits with allergy and emergency contact lists and any necessary medication?
This visionary policy is a good look in negative risk mitigation and could keep you out of a Code Blue.
What is every child remains in sight of a caring adult at all times?
If you have forgotten to pack your staff shirt for work you have these three supports.
What are travel home "off the clock" and return with your uniform, borrow a shirt from a colleague, or borrow a shirt from the youth center, if they have one and return it next day washed for the next user?
Mitigating risk and responding effectively are the goals of what "woke" state of being?
What is situational awareness?
This is need to practice "carry in, carry out".
What is a trash bag?
A young person who has recently changed their pronouns to She/They arrives at the center in a sundress, you identify the situation as this and practice these.
What is a positive risk? And what is supporting the youth with tools and strategies?
This "Handy" reference can be your go to for all things CYP.
What is the CYP Employee Handbook?
These are the only four elements contained in our periodic table of youth development safety.
What are observation, orientation, decision and action?
To lower the risk of heat exhaustion or heat stroke, staff will do this frequently.
What is remind children to stay hydrated? AKA drink from their water bottles.
Daily Double!!! What's the Scenario?
Act out this scene correctly. A young person jogs off the soccer field breathing heavily and asks for their inhaler and you do this.
What is open the first aid kit you have, check the allergy list, confirm that this child has a rescue inhaler, check the name on the inhaler in the medical travel bag, let the child administer (if allowed to), check to see if the symptoms have been repressed, report to supervisor and record dose in the medical log?
Good fences make good neighbors and good decisions makes for healthy developmental relationships when this policy is adhered to.
What is the boundaries Policy?
Incident or accident?
A child wildly slides into second base in Matt Ball causing two children to fall over onto each other and him. After checking in they all report feeling okay & want to play again. You notice a pocket knife has dropped from the slider's pocket, they admit it is theirs & that they stole it on your last field trip.
What is incident?
Both having a pocket knife and shoplifting should be reported and documented. The three children were physically fine and able to return to play. There were no head injuries or first aid administered
If a child in your group has been missing for five minutes or more you will do this.
What is; you will call a Code Blue. You will make sure the director on the trip, the Youth Center Director and the Division Head are contacted. You will leave group with the second Youth Worker or Group Lead and search for the child. If asked to, you will contact the Caregiver about the situation.
Name this quartet of potential social media risks.
What are cyberbullying, unwanted visibility, consent and boundaries?
CYP practices these six moral maxims.
What are, Living Social Justice, Building Community, Embracing Energy, Honoring Youth, Facilitating Fun, Fostering Growth & Transformation?