Child safety coordinators work to make a difference
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Ken Joyce and Coleen Rakers are working to keep children safe from sexual predators.
The parishioners of St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Brentwood volunteer for Safe Environment Program workshop, Protecting God’s Children. The two-hour workshop is required by the Archdiocese of St. Louis for everyone who works with or near children, including priests, teachers, school volunteers and coaches.
“We want to make a difference in children’s lives,” said Rakers. She and Joyce have been child safety coordinators about two years.
The The Safe Environment Program, introduced in 2002, has educated about 70,000 in the St. Louis Archdiocese. The two-hour program includes videos of interviews and re-enactments with child predators, child abuse victims and professional counselors, law enforcement officers and clergy.
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