{"id":7889,"date":"2004-02-21T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T00:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/casual_bleg_1.html"},"modified":"2004-02-21T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T00:22:41","slug":"casual_bleg_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/casual_bleg_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Casual Bleg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I have been working on an article on the whole &#8220;safe environment&#8221; aspect of the USCCB&#8217;s charter: dioceses must ensure safe environments for children and youth, and provide training for adults who work with children and youth, as well as the children and youth themselves. As Boston and Arlington have shown, this does not always go smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really just about done with the article, but if any readers have <strong>direct<\/strong> experiences with these programs, (or even similar programs in other institutions like Scouts) feel free to drop me a line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I have been working on an article on the whole &#8220;safe environment&#8221; aspect of the USCCB&#8217;s charter: dioceses must ensure safe environments for children and youth, and provide training for adults who work with children and youth, as well as the children and youth themselves. As Boston and Arlington have shown, this does&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Casual Bleg - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/casual_bleg_1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Casual Bleg - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week, I have been working on an article on the whole &#8220;safe environment&#8221; aspect of the USCCB&#8217;s charter: dioceses must ensure safe environments for children and youth, and provide training for adults who work with children and youth, as well as the children and youth themselves. 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