Attorney Richard Hammar was among the first to caution Protestant churches about the need to protect kids and use screening and selection processes for the people who work with children and youth in their care.
When he crafted the Reducing the Risk abuse-prevention awareness training program in the early 1990s, Hammar recommended a five-step checklist. Three of those steps–a written application, interview, and reference checks–occurred before a person even set foot in a Sunday school classroom or youth-group gathering.
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