Risk management for child-serving professionals
Organizations that work with children are often unprepared to address critical incidents and, even more importantly, do not have a culture of risk management to take preventative steps to mitigate risks in the first place. Risky Kid Business LLC was launched to better prepare organizations for when—not if—critical incidents occur.
Risk management is for all organizations, and Risky Kid Business offers practical and approachable tools for organizations of all sizes and industries, centered on keeping children safe by creating prepared organizations.
The Risky Kid Business Toolkit for professionals who work with children uses examples of high-probability incidents to support child-serving organizations as they explore areas of vulnerability and strengthen their critical incident responses.
The Toolkit provides 52 example critical incident scenario cards and prompts for team discussions. It also includes supplemental prompts for organization administrators, including managers and board members, and regulators, including state and local officials, licensing entities, and accrediting bodies.
The Toolkit can be used as stand-alone training material or incorporated into existing training resources.
Who should use the Toolkit?
Child-serving professionals in:
- Child/youth activities & camps
- Early education & child care
- Before & after school programs
- Child welfare & juvenile justice
- Behavioral health
- K-12 education
- Simulate real situations
- Identify policy & process gaps
- Kickstart hard conversations
- Open lines of communication
- Discuss organizational culture
- Build psychological safety among teams
Prompt questions are for everyone. Additional prompts are available for administrators and regulators when users want to explore management, board, licensing, oversight, or accreditation considerations.
Organizations that serve children and families can face life-and-death emergencies every day. The middle of a critical incident is not the time to realize the organization lacks processes or training to mitigate risks. The Toolkit helps organizations explore vulnerabilities and strengthen responses before the worst-case scenario becomes the wake-up call.