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Called to be a SAFE PLACE: Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Our ChurchCalled to be a SAFE PLACE: Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Our Church

What is Misconduct?
Report Misconduct
Our Church: A Safe Place
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Healing and Renewal
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What is Misconduct?
Report Misconduct

   Reporting Child Abuse
   Reporting Sexual Misconduct in the ELCA
   Where to report
   Contacting the synod
   Additional contact
Our Church: A Safe Place
Education and Training
   ELCA Education and Training Resources
   Additional Education and Training Resources
General Resources

   ELCA Resources
      - Safe Connections: What Parishioners Can Do to Understand and Prevent
        Clergy Sexual Abuse
      - Healing in Congregations After Clergy Sexual Abuse: A Resource to Assist
      - Synodical Leaders and Local Congregations
      - An ELCA Strategy for Responding to Sexual Abuse in the Church
   Background Checks
   Other Resources
      - Reducing the Risk: Making Your Church Safe from Child Sexual Abuse
      - Safe Sanctuaries: Reducing the Risk of Child Abuse in the Church
Healing and Renewal
   Restoring Trust
An Overview of the ELCA Disciplinary Process
   - Constitutions, Bylaws, and Continuing Resolutions of the Evangelical Lutheran
     Church in America
   - Definitions and Guidelines for Discipline...
   - Rules Governing Disciplinary Proceedings Against an Ordained Minister, a
     Rostered Layperson, or a Congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
     in America
   - Vision and Expectations...Ordained Ministers in Evangelical Lutheran Church
     in America
   - Vision and Expectations...Commissioned Associates in Ministry in the
     Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
ELCA Terminology
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