Risk management for child-serving professionals
Practice critical incident thinking before the critical incident.
The Risky Kid Business Toolkit for Professionals who work with Children uses examples of high-probability incidents to support child-serving organizations as they work to explore areas of vulnerability and strengthen their critical incident responses.
The Toolkit provides 52 example critical incident scenario cards and includes prompts for team discussions to better prepare organizations for when—not if—critical incidents occur. The Toolkit also includes supplemental prompts for organization Administrators, including managers and board members, and Regulators, including state and local officials, licensing entities, or 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 and prepare
- Simulate real situations
- Identify policy & process gaps
- Kickstart hard conversations
- Open lines of communication
- Discuss organizational culture
- Build psychological safety among teams
Who can use the prompts?
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.
Strengthen incident response
Organizations who 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 vulnerability and strengthen critical incident responses before the worst-case scenario becomes the wake-up call.