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October 7, 2025

 

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

 

Much gratitude and grace to all as we live through the season of change. I am truly grateful to all of you and the work you put into making Safe Environments a better community. May we all harvest more of God’s good will in the future of this program!

 

** REMINDER** ALL LOCAL VIRTUS ADMINS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OCTOBER 15  AT 9:00 a.m. Read more

 

*NEW* EDUCATE THE EDUCATOR – A WEBINAR ON HOW TO EQUIP OUR TEACHERS, DRE, & CATECHISTS ON HOW TO SUCCESSFUL TEACH EMPOWERING GOD’S CHILDREN

Crispin Montelione, the Content Creator of VIRTUS, has so generously offered to facilitate four webinars on how to better equip our educators, DRE’s, and catechists on Empowering God’s Children. She will go over the lesson plans, how to deliver the content to both the children and the parents, what makes this educational program successful in your parish or school, and what to do when you receive push back.

 

If you can’t make it to this session, we will have three more in the upcoming months!

Our first session will be Tuesday, October 28 from 10am-12pm. Register HERE. If you are not a DRE or an educator, please feel free to pass this on.

 

*REMINDER* INTAKE FORM UPDATE

Safe Environments is pleased to announce our new Intake Form! This is a form that will now be used to report any incidents that will need the involvement of the Detroit Catholic Schools and the Safe Environments offices. Please take a moment to watch through this short tutorial and familiarize yourself with this. 

Standardized Procedures for Reporting Incidents in Catholic Schools

**It is important to note that this form should ONLY be used for incidents that happen at the school or the parish. For mandated reporters reporting CPS matters that are going on at home and are not an onsite school-related incident please do not submit this information to us.

 

As a final note, it is also important to mention that you MUST report to CPS before submitting this form to SE and DCS offices as we do not conduct internal investigations. If you are questioning whether to submit an incident to the Intake Form, please consult with your associate superintendent or email Safe Environments at protectchildren@aod.org.

 

*NEW * BACKGROUND CHECK AUTHORIZATION PROMPT FOR CURRENT USERS  

The new Background Check Authorization Prompt for current users is available! The team at VIRTUS will finally be sending out emails to all your users that haven’t filled out a Background Check Authorization Form, later this week, but for now please feel free to use the prompt while the emails are being launched. See HERE for a step-by-step tutorial.

 

SAFE ENVIRONMENT’S RESOURCES:

  • Background Check Authorization Form
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Background Check Determination Status Letter for Felonies
  • Background Check Determination Status Letter for DUI’s
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act
  • Empowering God’s Children Opt-Out Form
  • Empowering God’s Children Opt-Out Form (Spanish)
  • Teaching Boundaries and Safety Guide
  • Teaching Boundaries and Safety Guide
    (Spanish)
  • Record Retention Policy
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