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III. Risk Management

A. Minimum Insurance Levels for Covenant Congregations | B. Managing Risk, Safety, & Insurance in the Congregation | C. Sexual Harassment and Abuse

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C. Sexual Harassment and Abuse

1. What Every Covenant Church Member Needs to Know about Sexual Harassment and Abuse Download the brochure.   
2. How Should a Church Process a Claim of Abuse or Harassment?

If an abuse or harassment charge is against a person who is a minister or staff minister with credentials with the Covenant, the church should immediately notify the proper persons: the conference superintendent and the executive minister of the Ordered Ministry 773-583-3211.

The following pamphlets and reference materials are available to churches through the Covenant Resource Center, 800-338-4332:

• Responding to Sexual Misconduct in the Context of the Church - (processing charges against a church member or worker and caring for the persons who have been harmed) Includes a detailed bibliography of resources
• What Every Covenant Church Member Needs to Know about Sexual Harassment and Abuse
• Making the Church a Safer Place (large looseleaf book published August 2001)