Prevent and Protect

Safe Environment (Protecting God's Children)

We welcome volunteers at St. Gerard Majella School.

St. Gerard Majella Schools follows the Archdiocese of St. Louis Safe Environment Program (Protecting God’s Children). The program is designed to help protect the youth, elderly, and vulnerable adults of our parish as they participate in activities within our community. This process also provides a layer of protection against the possibility of false accusations for those adults who are involved in our many ministries. If you have any questions, please call Lisa Vorwerk at 314-965-3985 ext. 2818 or email parishcre@sgmparish.org

The Prevent and Protect STL document will guide you through the process for becoming compliant.

Each individual will be required to complete a background check, participate in a Protecting God’s Children Workshop if you have not done so, view the two video modules, and sign the Code of Ethics.
The password for the Prevent and Protect registration site is sltprotect
At times the system will hang when completing the background check process. The message indicates that it could take 3 minutes. Some have experienced that it seems to take longer. When they exit that screen and come back into the system the background check was marked as complete.

If you think you are already in compliance, you may call the parish office to verify your compliance status. Please contact the Child Safety Coordinator at the parish office if you have any questions: Lisa Vorwerk at 314-965-3985 ext. 2818 or parishcre@sgmparish.org

Schedules of Protecting God's Children workshops can be found here.

Missouri Department of Social Services Children's Division Child Abuse & Neglect Hotline: 800-392-3738.

For additional information related to reporting incidents of suspected abuse, please refer to the Archdiocese's Policy, Procedure and Guidelines on Child Abuse and Neglect Reports or contact the Office of Child and Youth Protection 314-792-7271.

Archdiocese of St. Louis archstl.org

Victims of sexual abuse, in addition to contacting civil authorities, are asked to come forward in order to receive pastoral assistance.

Reports of abuse may be made to any Pastor or to:

Sandra Price, Executive Director

Office of Child & Youth Protection

314-792-7271 sandraprice@archstl.org

Missouri Department of Social Services Children’s Division Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline:

1-800-392-3738

Missouri Department of Heath & Senior Services Adult Abuse and Neglect Hotline:

1-800-392-0210