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Lisa Williams posted a reply on Re: Sensitive Topic : Parents hitting child whi...
Thursday, Jan 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Said: We do train our staff to have situational awareness and to report any suspicious behavior to the managerial team. Once a year we do Child Abuse training as well as when an employee is onboarded. We are lucky to have off-duty police offi...
Brianna Borka posted a reply on Re: Sensitive Topic : Parents hitting child whi...
Thursday, Jan 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Said: Our museum is part of a Child Abuse Prevention Coalition run by First Witness. They provided us with "no hit zone" signage that states around the edge something to the effect that no child should hit another child, no child...
Meg Hagen posted a reply on Re: Sensitive Topic : Parents hitting child whi...
Wednesday, Jan 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Said: Thank you, Khadija for posting and Julie for sharing your policy. I don’t have experience to share thus far as we are a new Museum opening our doors in the coming months. We are in the process of writing our policies so this will be ver...
Julie Burtnette posted a reply on Re: Sensitive Topic : Parents hitting child whi...
Wednesday, Jan 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Said: After 7 years of never having this situation and not having a procedure we had to create one last month. There was a mom who started getting reported to staff by visitors of worrying behavior. Staff didn't see anything the first time, b...
Jessie Goodwin posted a reply on Re: Sensitive Topic : Parents hitting child whi...
Wednesday, Jan 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Said: Thank you Khadija for asking this - we are currently having the same discussion. We just had two incidents yesterday with separate families where a staff member or guest observed a spanking or physical interaction that made the...
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