While providing resources for parishes to conduct Safe Environment Education for the youth and young adults in parish programs we began wondering, “Would it be possible to include Safe Environment or Child Protection materials in textbooks?” Becasuse parish catechists often find it difficult to integrate supplemental materials into their lessons it would be helpful if some basic Safe Environment or Child Protection materials were in the textbook. Since the Textbook/Catechist Manual is the primary resource for most parish catechists it seems logical that child protection materials would be included in the textbooks.
What do you think? Would you like to see Safe Environment or Child Protection materials included in textbooks? Would you like to see the DDRE Forum begin a conversation with Publishers to include the material in their texts? Leave a comment and let us know what your thinking. I would like to bring this issue up at the October Rep Council meeting. Click on the comments link below and share your thoughts.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Safe Environment Curriculum
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I feel the same way about "Family life" and "Human sexuality from a Caholic perspective." These are hot topics that need to be addressed and yet raise great dissension in parish and school programs when they are addressed. In our archdiocese we did a study as part of our preparation for the Virtus program. We found that few parish and school programs were actually implementing our guidelines on teaching human sexuality and family life because of the fact that these materials were "stand alone" or "supplementary" due to all of the conflict they raised. Due to budget concerns too many "opted" not to get the materials and then leave it up to catechists who are not comfortable with the material to cover it.
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