Vendors

Legal Services to Nonprofits
Our Mission is to be trusted legal advisors at the forefront of nonprofit law, offering skilled expertise and excellent client service to advance our clients’ missions. Our firm’s legal services to nonprofits include corporate governance and structuring, tax exemption, employment, risk management, dispute resolution, charitable fundraising, and real estate. We love the work and the opportunity to help our nonprofit clients achieve their unique missions.

We assist churches, schools, camps, childcare centers, and other youth-serving organizations with all aspects of child protection and responding to claims or lawsuits.

Legal Services
Rely on our experience in criminal defense, litigation, business, church & non-profit law, estate & family law, intellectual property & licensing & more.

Reducing the Risk Training
Child sexual abuse remains a very real problem in ministries today. The good news is you can protect the precious children of your church and decrease your church’s risk of a costly allegation when you implement a training program like Reducing the Risk. Created by noted legal expert Richard Hammar, JD., LL.M., CPA, Reducing the Risk is designed to help churches train pastors, staff members, and volunteer leaders every year with ease.

50-State Survey of Child Abuse Reporting Laws
Every state has a child abuse reporting law—and many apply to clergy. Learn what your church needs to know, how to comply, and why immediate action is critical through Church Law & Tax’s regularly updated 50-state survey of child abuse reporting laws.

MinistrySafe provides access to resources to implement an effective 5-Part Safety System:

Sexual Abuse Awareness Training
Sexual Abuse Awareness Training is the foundational element of a Safety System. Awareness Training equips staff members and volunteers with a better understanding of abuser characteristics, the abuser’s grooming process, common grooming behaviors and more.

Skillful Screening Process
The Skillful Screening Process identifies high-risk indicators of an abuser through the use of effective screening forms, with training in the use of those forms.

MinistrySafe offers sample screening forms (application, reference checks and interview) designed to elicit high-risk answers, as well as Skillful Screening Training, allowing hiring and screening personnel to recognize high-risk responses. The Skillful Screening Process enables administrators, hiring managers and ministry leaders to evaluate whether an applicant or volunteer has an inappropriate motive for working with children.

Policies & Procedures
Policies & Procedures intended to address the risk of child sexual abuse should be rooted in an understanding of the abuser’s grooming process and how grooming may unfold in a particular ministry program. MinistrySafe offers a variety of sample Policies & Procedures tailored to various types of church and ministry programs, which dovetail with Sexual Abuse Awareness Training and Peer-to-Peer Sexual Abuse Training.

Background Checks
Serving only churches and child-serving organizations, MinistrySafe is the industry leader in Background Checks for ministries. The MinistrySafe Background Check service is designed and overseen by sexual abuse legal experts who understand the risks inherent in ministry programs. MinistrySafe Members choose from seven pre-created packages or customize searches to address program needs.

Monitoring and Oversight
Our online Control Panel allows MinistrySafe Members to manage each element of the 5-Part Safety System, including Training compliance, Background Checks and the Skillful Screening Process.

Policy Development
This service includes customizing a full set of policies and procedures, taking into consideration your responses to a questionnaire, your context, the current recognized standard of care, best practices, insurance requirements, and local legal legislation. At your request, we will also incorporate existing policies and procedures that you have in place and develop forms that reflect your updated policies and procedures.

Training
We provide a myriad of training options for your team, be it Board Members, Staff, or volunteers. Our online certification courses include professional development for Administrators and Leaders (Admin/Leader Level 1 & 2), Trainers (Train the Trainer 1, 2, and Evergreen), and Board members and Sr. Leaders (Crisis Response and Management). Our most popular courses, Plan to Protect® Orientation and Refresher, are designed for front-line workers and meet insurance requirements.

Investigations
We provide investigative services for organizations that have received allegations or disclosures of historical abuse or clergy sexual misconduct where a legal duty of report does not apply. Following the investigation, we provide a written report outlining our discovery. The report would include the stated allegations of abuse, outline the process taken for the investigations, parties spoken to, what allegations have been substantiated based on a preponderance of evidence, and recommendations for communications, including recommendations for consideration to improve systems, policies, training, and supervision.

MinistrySafe provides risk management software designed to deploy, track and refresh sexual abuse prevention elements for staff members and volunteers, including:

Sexual Abuse Awareness Training
This foundational Training equips volunteers and staff with a clear understanding of abuser characteristics, the grooming process, common grooming behaviors, and more. It empowers volunteers to recognize red flags and take preventative action—serving as the first and most essential step in abuse prevention.

Skillful Screening & Training
Skillful Screening empowers volunteer coordinators and ministry leaders to identify high-risk indicators of an abuser during the application and interview process. With Training and customizable screening forms, this helps ensure volunteers are carefully evaluated for any inappropriate motives before being entrusted with children’s safety.

Background Checks
Serving only churches and child-serving organizations, MinistrySafe is the industry leader in Background Checks for ministries. The MinistrySafe Background Check service is designed and overseen by sexual abuse legal experts who understand the risks inherent in ministry programs. MinistrySafe Members choose from seven pre-created packages or customize searches to address program needs.

Policies & Procedures
MinistrySafe provides sample Policies and Procedures, equipping ministries to reduce risk and support safe volunteer engagement across all programs. Clear, well-communicated Policies & Procedures help volunteers understand expectations, boundaries, and ministry standards.

Property and Liability Insurance
With help from our friends at Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company, we construct our coverages to fill the gaps that can leave ministries vulnerable to risks. We cover property to general liability protection to safeguard your organization, leaders, staff, volunteers, and appointed representatives against claims of bodily injury or property damage caused by negligent acts, errors, or omissions of your ministry or its representatives.

Employee Benefits
Brotherhood Mutual and Lightwell Insurance Advisors have formed strategic alliances with benefits partners to redefine how churches care for their employees. We connect you to affordable, customizable health, vision, and dental plans, regardless of staff size. Benefit options include critical illness and short- and long-term disability, plus employee accident insurance and life insurance.

Mission Protection
Conveys virtually all the liability and medical coverages of a Brotherhood Mutual policy to the ministry, its covered representatives, and travelers related to short-term ministry activities anywhere in the world. So if a lawsuit is filed against you in a foreign country because of an issue that arose during a short-term mission trip, you would still be covered.

Accident Insurance
Provides medical and dental expense coverage for participants injured during covered supervised ministry activities. Includes Accidental Death, Dismemberment, and Paralysis benefits for short-term emergency sickness. Can be customized to cover attendees, staff, groundskeepers, volunteers, and specific events, clubs, or activities.

Workers’ Compensation
Provides medical, disability, rehabilitation, and death benefits for employees in relation to work-related injuries or diseases specified by state law.

Directors & Officers
Provides financial protection and legal defense for claims of financial damage that result from decisions made by your organization’s leaders.

Cyber Insurance
Pays for defense costs and damages from computer use errors, data breaches, and e-commerce errors. Provides reimbursement for responding to a data breach, such as sending notifications, providing credit monitoring services, or hiring a PR firm for communication and reputation management.

Accreditation
Accreditation is an independent process of compliance verification which determines if an organization meets defined standards. ECAP awards accreditation to ministries that demonstrate compliance to Child Safety Standards through an assessment and audit process.

ECAP also offers several membership tiers and types so that you can choose the option that best fits your ministry’s context and support needs for child safety and abuse response.

Coaching
Recieve personal coaching on creating child protection policies and/or abuse response. Member ministries recieve coaching as a benefit of membership.

Initial Assessment
Have your ministry’s child safety program reviewed by our staff so that you can find our where you already align with industry standards concerning child safety and where you could use improvement. Member ministries recieve an initial assessment as a benefit of membership.

Discounted Background Checks & Sexual Abuse Training
The Lifeway One Source program provides discounted prices on background checks for churches and religious organizations looking to protect their ministries. Screen your staff, volunteers, treasurers, teachers, bus drivers, camp counselors and more! Through the Lifeway One Source program, churches and religious organizations can receive discounted background screenings through Clear Investigative Advantage (CIA). CIA is a full service background screening agency providing churches with background checks since 2001. Free Sexual Abuse Awareness training is free with every background check purchase.

Background Checks
Serving only churches and child-serving organizations, MinistrySafe is the industry leader in Background Checks for ministries. The MinistrySafe Background Check service is designed and overseen by sexual abuse legal experts who understand the risks inherent in ministry programs. MinistrySafe Members choose from seven pre-created packages or customize searches to address program needs.

Skillful Screening Training
Skillful Screening Training identifies high-risk indicators of an abuser, allowing hiring and screening personnel to recognize an applicant’s high-risk responses. In coordination with sample screening forms, Skillful Screening Training enables administrators, hiring managers and ministry leaders to evaluate if an employee or volunteer has an inappropriate motive for working with children.

Skillful Screening Training Sample Documents
MinistrySafe provides a variety of sample screening documents tailored to employment and volunteer positions. MinistrySafe Members receive access to our online Document Library, including:

• Sample Employment Application
• Sample Teen Volunteer Application
• Sample Adult Volunteer Application
• Sample Interview Form
• Employee and Volunteer Document Checklists
• Reference Forms

Background Screening
Ministries across the U.S. trust Protect My Ministry to provide customized background checks to create a safe environment by thoroughly vetting staff and volunteers. Our comprehensive screening services include National Criminal and Sex Offender Database, County and State Criminal Records, as well as Education and Employment Verification, Motor Vehicle Records (MVR), Social Media and Credit Checks.

Webinars and Online Content
CTHN offers training and equipping resources for people-helpers who want to provide Christ-centered trauma care to survivors. Our webinars feature topical content on the various aspects of traumatization and healing from trauma, and our written content pieces provide practical guidance for helping survivors work through their struggle.

Christian Trauma Care Provider Certification
CTHN’s Level 1 Training is a ten-hour training designed for Christian professionals and lay counselors who desire to learn the basics for counseling clients who have experienced past trauma.

Reducing the Risk Training
Child sexual abuse remains a very real problem in ministries today. The good news is you can protect the precious children of your church and decrease your church’s risk of a costly allegation when you implement a training program like Reducing the Risk. Created by noted legal expert Richard Hammar, JD., LL.M., CPA, Reducing the Risk is designed to help churches train pastors, staff members, and volunteer leaders every year with ease.

50-State Survey of Child Abuse Reporting Laws
Every state has a child abuse reporting law—and many apply to clergy. Learn what your church needs to know, how to comply, and why immediate action is critical through Church Law & Tax’s regularly updated 50-state survey of child abuse reporting laws.

Sexual Abuse Awareness Training
Sexual Abuse Awareness Training is the foundational training of an effective Safety System by equipping staff members and volunteers with a better understanding of abuser characteristics, the abuser’s grooming process, common grooming behaviors and more.

Peer-to-Peer Sexual Abuse Training
Peer-to-Peer Sexual Abuse Training provides guidance related to inappropriate sexual behaviors between children. This training defines and describes the risk, imbalances of power and risk indicators, methods to reduce the risk, and reportability.

Skillful Screening Training
Skillful Screening Training identifies high-risk indicators of an abuser, allowing hiring and screening personnel to recognize an applicant’s high-risk responses. In coordination with sample screening forms, Skillful Screening Training enables administrators, hiring managers and ministry leaders to evaluate if an employee or volunteer has an inappropriate motive for working with children.

Background Checks Training
While the Background Check provides an important element of an effective Safety System, many ministries fail to strategically deploy this screening resource. This Training explains the record-gathering process and a variety of breakdowns associated with reporting criminal histories – especially those related to child sexual abuse. This Training highlights misleading practices by vendors that lead to missed records and contractually limited search results. This free Training provides ministry leaders with the information necessary to develop an effective Background Check strategy.

Parent/Guardian Training
Parent/Guardian Training equips parents with a basic understanding and awareness of child sexual abuse risk and the grooming process of the abuser, equipping parents to protect their own children.

Policies and Procedures Training
Learn how to create and implement effective Policies and Procedures addressing child sexual abuse risk in your ministry.

Sexual Harassment Trainings
Sexual Harassment Trainings assist ministries and child-serving organizations in the creation of an environment of respect for all employees and volunteers. MinistrySafe offers two versions of this training – employers/supervisors and employees/volunteers. The topics and content of this training comply with federal law requirements for sexual harassment training.

Child Safety Training
In addition to conducting regular background checks, the Child Safety Training program by Protect My Ministry is one of the best ways to help safeguard your ministry from predators by learning to recognize the signs of grooming and the formation of inappropriate attachments early.

This online training focuses on preventing child sexual abuse, and participants must pass a quiz with at least 70% to receive a certification of completion.

Child Safeguarding Training
Helps your organization be on the watch against evil and become the capable guardian of your flock

Biblical anti-harassment training
Create a safe, respectful workplace where people thrive. Learn how to prevent harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and bullying before they destroy trust, morale, and your mission.

HR compliance training
Legally compliant training from a perspective of Imago Dei (image of God).

Telios Teaches Learning Management System
An easy, affordable online LMS training platform for one employee or thousands, with tracking and certification.

Courses in child protection policies
These include how to audit and create strong policies, screening employees and staff, recognizing signs of abuse, mandated reporting, and understanding the difference between mentoring and grooming.

Courses in understanding trauma
These include parenting foster, adoptive and blended families, encouraging resilience, understanding the effects of trauma, and boosting self-esteem.

Legal Advice in Abuse Prevention and Response
Policy review and implementation give your team an actionable plan to prevent abuse in the first place.

Advice on child protection and responses to allegations helps ministries be compassionate, scriptural, and in line with best practices.

Independent Investigations into Abuse Allegations
Independent third-party investigations into current and historic allegations of misconduct may be part of an appropriate response.

Webinars and Online Content
CTHN offers training and equipping resources for people-helpers who want to provide Christ-centered trauma care to survivors. Our webinars feature topical content on the various aspects of traumatization and healing from trauma, and our written content pieces provide practical guidance for helping survivors work through their struggle.

Christian Trauma Care Provider Certification
CTHN’s Level 1 Training is a ten-hour training designed for Christian professionals and lay counselors who desire to learn the basics for counseling clients who have experienced past trauma.

Individual, Marriage, and Family counseling.