3000-2060 Child Sex Abuse Prevention

For evidence--based, adult--focused child sexual abuse prevention initiatives that provide technical assistance to communities, youth--serving organizations and schools to: (i) organize local coalitions dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse; (ii) recruit, train and certify local volunteers to provide free prevention education for parents, students and professionals; and (iii) strengthen the core standards around the screening of prospective employees, the development of codes of conduct, the assessment and modification of physical spaces to reduce opportunities for sexual abuse, the responding to and reporting of boundary--violating behaviors and suspected acts of sexual abuse and the training of staff and volunteers on ways to prevent adult perpetration and child--on--child sexual abuse; provided further, that initiatives supported through this item shall be administered by the Children's Trust Fund established in section 50 of chapter 10 of the General Laws and the office of the child advocate; and provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for Enough Abuse, Inc. to provide technical assistance to and training for schools and communities