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Safeguarding Children & Responding to Abuse in Ministry: Practical Protection & Crisis Response for Church Leaders

🎙️ BREAKOUT SPEAKER, Jeff Dalrymple

Jeff Dalrymple currently serves as Director of Abuse Prevention & Response at the SBC Executive Committee, where he equips and educates churches on abuse prevention and response strategies across ministry contexts. With leadership experience spanning public safety, ministry, higher education, and nonprofit organizations, Jeff brings practical expertise and real-world insight to one of the most critical issues facing churches today.

Protecting children and vulnerable individuals is one of the greatest responsibilities entrusted to any ministry. In this important session, Jeff provides a foundational understanding of child protection principles while equipping leaders with practical strategies for creating safer ministry environments.

Attendees will gain insight into:

✔️ Understanding the realities and impact of abuse in ministry settings
✔️ Recognizing grooming behaviors and warning signs
✔️ Building practical child protection frameworks
✔️ Creating safer ministry environments through proactive measures

⚠️ PLUS: CRITICAL CRISIS RESPONSE SESSION ⚠️

Responding to Abuse in Ministry – Crisis Response When Allegations Arise

🎙️ Presented by Jeff Dalrymple

When allegations or disclosures of abuse emerge within a ministry context, the response during the first hours and days can significantly impact victims, families, congregations, and the long-term health of a ministry.

This practical session provides church leaders and safety teams with a structured framework for responding with wisdom, compassion, and integrity.

Participants will gain practical guidance on:

✔️ Immediate response priorities when allegations arise
✔️ Communication considerations during crisis situations
✔️ Caring for victims and families effectively
✔️ Organizational responsibilities and considerations
✔️ Common mistakes that can unintentionally cause additional harm

These sessions provide practical tools and actionable strategies that ministry leaders can immediately implement to strengthen prevention efforts and improve response readiness.

Register for the main event today: https://www.fbsnamerica.com/events/security-operations-summit-2026

📅 July 23–25, 2026 (Pre-Event July 22)
📍 Louisville, Kentucky

NVEs are involved in most of the incidents in the last 12 months. Everyone tasked with prevention or response should learn more about these individuals.

The latest research regarding the rise of young, suicidal mass killers (Nihilistic Violent Extremism), has identified the cause as a "behavior trap." A behavior trap is a psychological "feedback loop" in which every day experiences inadvertently reinforce unhealthy behavior.

**Stages of the Behavioral "Loop" Leading to Violence**

-Stage 1: The Vulnerability (Unresolved Trauma)
The trap cannot spring without a pre-existing state of deprivation or trauma. Trauma keeps the brain's alarm center on high alert, diminishing impulse control and the ability to think rationally.

-Stage 2: Taking the Bait (Propaganda or Community Reinforcement)
To cope with the "isolation" brought on by their trauma (which is common), the individual turns to online spaces, violent subcultures, or extremist manifestos. This validates their unresolved rage and shifts their perspective from personal failure to a broader sense of grievance.

-Stage 3: The Snare (Following the Script)
As the individual interacts with this material, they develop a rigid, extremist vocabulary. They begin to view the world through a binary lens of "us vs. them" or "perpetrator vs. victim".

-Stage 4: Punishing the World (Fame-Seeking)
Fame-seeking functions as an opportunity to punish the world. The individual becomes pathologically fixated, obsessively studying past attackers, mimicking their aesthetics, and consuming media coverage.

-Stage 5: The Loss of Fear (The Obliterative Mindset)
As the trap tightens, the perpetrator undergoes cognitive disinhibition. They experience what behavioral analysts call a "loss of fear" regarding the consequences of their actions. Driven by an envious desire to "destroy goodness" or the happiness of others, they reach an "obliterative mindset" where they view their own "self" as already dead, making the physical destruction of their body inconsequential. Violence becomes a transformational tool to shift from a position of absolute powerlessness to absolute power.

**Breaking the Loop**
The key to preventing this slippery slope into extremism and violence is for someone in authority to intervene when they see someone struggling with trauma. In law enforcement, linking troubled youth to mental health services is known as "Child-Development Community Policing" or "Trauma Informed Policing."

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
www.GrossmanOnTruth.com

These will be the last Church Stage Classes offer before fall.

Strategos Peacekeepers Armed Church Security Team Member Stage 1 - Strategos International, LLC | Brushfire

Strategos Peacekeepers Armed Church Security Team Member Stage 1 Peacekeepers Range, 891 East 385th Road, Bolivar, Missouri 65613 United States - Saturday, Jun 13, 2026 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT

I had a great group of School Protection Officers out for continuing education. As you can see they are above average shooters, they all completed the Missouri Law Enforcement Academy POST qualification course shooting at 90% or above level. Anything above 70% is passing for police recruits as comparison.

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Thank you to Susan Meyers for sending me a signed by the Governor copy of HB1866 improving the School Protection Officer statute. This was an important improvement in the program that allows schools to now select the best qualified person to be trained as an SPO.