Prevention in Practice: Creating and Maintaining a Culture of Safety
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Prevention in Practice: Creating and Maintaining a Culture of Safety
Preventing sexual abuse and misconduct is a vital step for schools to protect children and maintain trust, ensuring that our schools will continue to provide the benefits of an independent school education long into the future. Please join Amber McKeen, Sr. Risk Consultant with Praesidium Inc for a Webinar exploring how to create and maintain a culture of safety through policy improvement, comprehensive staff/volunteer screening and training, and effective monitoring and supervision to protect your students and community. We’ll also discuss updated research on sexual molestation liability (SML/SAM) insurance and impact of prevention trends on the SML/SAM coverage available to meet your school's needs.
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Amber McKeen is a child abuse prevention expert with over 16 years of experience helping youth-serving organizations strengthen safety measures. At Praesidium, she specializes in abuse prevention for K-12 schools, conducting risk assessments, policy analyses, and training sessions—delivering 27 in-person and virtual school trainings in her first year. She has built strong client relationships, handled dozens of helpline calls, and contributed to Praesidium’s research, training, and content development efforts.
Before joining Praesidium, as part of the CDC Foundation, Amber led a team of CDC scientists focused on preventing child sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations. She previously spent six years at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, developing their webinar education program, training over 35,000
professionals and conducting research on foster care, child exploitation, and first-responder abuse prevention interventions. Her extensive research portfolio includes leading a large-scale environmental scan of youth-serving organization policies and procedures to prevent child sexual abuse, collaborating with CDC scientists on research to strengthen primary prevention efforts, and co-developing training programs for first responders on child abuse intervention and prevention. She has also contributed to evaluating and implementing foster parent training programs using a community-based participatory research model.
Amber’s professional expertise is complemented by her global perspective, having traveled to over 34 countries across five continents. While her primary work has been U.S.-based, she has contributed to a Praesidium project in Australia.
