Objectives: The course will introduce students to the concept of a prevention plan, safeguarding guidelines and policies. It will also bring students to reflect on the needs they might have in their own contexts, as they prepare a draft of a prevention plan to spread a culture safeguarding once back home.

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course, the students will be able to generally assess safeguarding guidelines/policies, create a prevention plan that are adapted to their cultures and environments. They will develop a culturally sensitive prevention plan for a specific context, like schools, hospitals, residential homes, etc.

Content: Various approaches to prevention and the elements which make them effective; analysis of existing prevention programs in the various cultures and professional fields with regard to their effectiveness; safeguarding policies/guidelines assessment; development of a prevention project or strategy for a church-related institution.

Methodology: The course will combine lectures, readings, and seminar discussion and will focus on a range of selected texts.

Means of evaluation: Evaluation will be based on class participation and a project.