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2215 North Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706 (714) 547 -5468 www.occtac.org YOUTH PROTECTION POLICY These OCCTAC Youth Protection Policy Guidelines are designed to help protect our youth in a <br />proactive manner against verbal and sexual abuse (hereinafter "abuse"). OCCTAC prohibits any form of harassment of applicants, visitors, organization members, employees and especially <br />YOUTH. All persons, including youth are to be treated with courtesy, dignity and respect at all <br />times. Sexual harassment is defined as unwanted sexual advances or visual, verbal or phy sical conduct of a sexual nature. The definition encompasses many forms of offensive behavior and <br />includes gender-based harassment of a person of the san1e sex as the harasser. <br />OCCTAC Staff and Volunteers must be able to identify abuse when they see it, know their responsibilities to report suspected abuse, and provide a quality of leadership that will ensure that no child becomes the victim of abuse through willful act while participating in OCCT AC. <br />Definition of Abuse Abuse is defined as verbal and sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and inappropriate sexual verbalization. <br />The OCCTAC program requires OCCTAC staff and volunteers to provide good supervision, maintain safe surroundings, and ensure a safe and secure environment that eliminate and <br />prevents opportunities for abuse. <br />Touching Youth, Employees and Volunteers need to be mindful that an affectionate ("harmless") gesture towards a child could be construed as inappropriate by the child or the child's parent. <br />Complementing Youth. <br />A supportive comment or words of encouragement serve as positive reinforcement from the OCCTAC Staff and Volunteers for the youth's accomplishments and good behavior are safer than those comments related to appearance. <br />Rewarding Youth. Should an employee or volunteer wish to give a reward or token gift to a youth, it should be <br />something that is given to other youth in the same circumstances. Otherwise, the youth or the parent could misconstrue the gesture. <br />Photos of Youth Members OCCT ACT policy prohibits the posting on the Internet of photos of youth identified in any way, <br />such as by name, region, or club affiliation. The publication of photos of yo uth, identified or not, is permitted in OCCT AC and related publications whose distribution is limited primarily to OCCTAC staff. <br />EXHIBIT 1