Safe Environment Training and Requirements

Safe Environment Training is a program designed by the Diocese of La Crosse to prevent child sexual abuse.  All employees and volunteers, including youth ministers and chaperones, are required to complete the program before working with children.  To successfully complete the Safe Environment Program, the following steps need to be taken:

• Read

• Green Booklet

• Maroon Booklet

• Pages 7 & 8 in Safe Environment Program Packet

• Red Flags in Children

•  Red Flags in Adults

• 5 Steps to a Safe Environment
  
  

• Read (and teach to your youth if you are the Youth Minister) appropriate age-group plan

• High School Safe Environment Plan

• Middle School Safe Environment Plan

• Intermediate Grades (3-5) Safe Environment Plan

• Primary Grades (K-2) Safe Environment Plan
  
  

• Fill Out and Sign Both Pages of:

• Employee and Volunteer Questionnaire
  
  

• Background Check:

• Fill out Basic Background Check form and send into parish or Diocese

• Have a Basic Background Check done every three years.
  

• Watch

• The new Safe Environment Video (Click Here)

 *Note: If completing the Safe Environment Program is being asked of you, your parish can assist you in completing the above requirements.  The parish priest, the Director of Religious Education, and/or parish office, should have all of the materials needed.  If your parish does not have these materials, the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry will assist you in successfully completing the program. 

Simply read the materials listed above, and send the Basic Background Check and both Employee Volunteer Questionnaire forms, along with $2 for each background check to be done to:

Diocese of La Crosse
                                          Attn: Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry
     3710 East Avenue South
La Crosse, WI 54601

 If you have any questions, please contact Jen Mickschl, Secretary of Youth and Young Adult Ministry by phone (608) 791-0161 or email jmickschl@dioceseoflacrosse.com.

*NOTE:  Youth Ministers should have record of their completion of the Safe Environment Program with the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry at the Diocese of La Crosse.  Those who volunteer or chaperone must have records of their completion of the program at their parish.