A Sexual Abuse Risk Management System

The Best Practice Framework + Training + Step-by-Step Guidance + The Right Tools + Reliable Information

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Confidence that Children are as Safe and your Organization is as Well Protected as Possible

Organizations using BOKSURE:

have the peace of mind of knowing they are doing everything they can to protect the children in their care,
have a clear and comprehensive plan for preventing and responding to sexual abuse in their organization, and
are able to be transparent about their policies and procedures so families and their community are confident kids are safe with them.

BOKRIM isn’t right for every organization. BOKSURE is a system made up of several components that, together, involve an organization committing to use risk management best practices to protect children and vulnerable adults from sexual abuse. The approach, though it incorporates safe environment practices, is quite different than using a safe environment.

For this reason, BOKRIM is available by application only. You can check us out, and we can discuss what using BOKSURE involves.

BOKSURE enables anyone to use risk management best practices, even if you have no previous risk management experience

Risk management best practice is an approach known as ERM. It is the research-proven most effective way to:

Prevent adverse events like sexual abuse and
Protect organizations from all the consequences of failing to prevent adverse events.

Using best practices is also the only way to convince your organization’s stakeholders you are meeting their expectations of doing everything possible to protect minors and vulnerable adults in your care from sexual abuse. Anything less than best practices isn’t “everything possible….”

Doing everything you can to prevent sexual abuse using risk management best practices has other benefits beyond convincing your stakeholders. Compared to organizations using traditional risk management, you:

are more likely to prevent sexual abuse,
will cause or incur less harm if sexual abuse happens,
meet your objectives more often,
be more trusted, and
be more highly valued.

But there’s a challenge. If your organization is like most organizations caring for children and vulnerable adults, you cannot currently use risk management best practices. You don’t have the necessary resources:

risk management expertise,
the significant investment traditional implementation requires,
months and sometimes years to devote to implementation, or
sufficient volumes of reliable data to fuel the system.

BOKSURE overcomes all these challenges. As a result, you can have a best-practice sexual abuse risk management system up and running in a week, even without previous risk management experience.

What's included in an annual BOKSURE sexual abuse risk management system subscription

Here’s what’s included in an annual BOKSURE subscription:

Module 1

Foundation Learning

Foundation learning is a series of videos providing someone with no previous risk management experience with the core information they need to understand risk management best practices well enough to assess their sexual abuse risk, customize a sexual abuse risk management system for their organization, and manage sexual abuse risk day-to-day. The topics covered in around 6 hours of video are:

Terms and Definitions
The Problems BOKSURE Solves
What is ERM
A Risk Management Best Practices Mind Set
The Underlying Nature of Sexual Abuse Risk
Introduction to the BOKSURE Application
Sexual Abuse Risk Management Leadership
Sexual Abuse Risk Assessment
Sexual Abuse Risk Management System Customization
Day-to-day Sexual Abuse Risk Management
Conscientious Sexual Abuse Risk Management

It is Foundation Learning, not (for example) “training,” because learning will be a constant feature of continuously improving how well you manage your organization’s sexual abuse risk.

Module 2

Sexual Abuse Risk Assessment

By the end of a sexual abuse risk assessment, you will have identified and prioritized all the times and places where minors and vulnerable adults in your care are vulnerable to sexual abuse. You will also know how you are exposed to sexual abuse risk, which is not just that you fail to prevent sexual abuse. For example, numerous forms of negligence might be alleged against you if sexual abuse happens.

To help you through the risk assessment, we provide you with a further series of videos on each stage of the assessment, a risk assessment workbook, and access to the SAM Risk BOK. Between them, these guide you step by step through understanding why and how your organization does what it does and how this leads to sexual abuse vulnerabilities and risks.

Module 3

Sexual Abuse Risk Management System Customization

When you customize a sexual abuse risk management system, you choose controls that are appropriate for your organization and which are designed to:

Prevent sexual abuse by addressing the most significant vulnerabilities identified in the assessment and
Ensure that if sexual abuse happens, it is identified as quickly as possible and responded to appropriately.

You also chose activities that ensure:

Your controls perform, and keep performing, as intended, and
Your organization is protected as well as possible from the sexual abuse risks identified in your risk assessment.

To help you through the customization process, we provide a further series of videos, a customization workbook, and access to the SAM Risk BOK. Between them, they guide you step by step through choosing controls and activities aligned with your vulnerabilities and risks and also with why and how your organization does what it does.

Module 4

Sexual Abuse Risk Management Tools

Risk management systems are composed of people, resources, and activities which need regular coordination to ensure good decisions are made when they need to be made, the system performs as intended, and the system stays on target. When a risk management system is set up right in the assessment and customization stages, the right tools ensure coordination is an easy and quick process. BOKSURE provides tools that enable you to:

Verify controls and activities are performed as intended
Respond to sexual abuse-related incidents as planned
Adapt to change as required, and
Continuously improve how well you protect children and vulnerable adults and your organization.

In addition to all the above, the tools enable you to record all your sexual abuse risk management decisions and actions. This is critical because the record means you will, if necessary, be able to demonstrate you have conscientiously protected the children and vulnerable adults in your care over the long term. This is how you protect your organization as effectively as possible from the consequences of failing to prevent sexual abuse.

For example, the record should enable you to demonstrate the following:

A complete intake process, customized for sexual abuse, has been applied to every role filled;
Annual appraisals for everyone associated with your organization have incorporated sexual abuse-related behaviors;
Physical security has been monitored from a sexual abuse perspective, and behaviors adjusted when needed;
Everyone in or related to your organization is aware of and has been held accountable for behavior requirements and expectations, with records of all breaches and resulting sanctions and actions;
How all prior sexual abuse-related incidents were responded to, what sanctions, if necessary, were applied, what lessons were learned, and how controls and activities were adjusted accordingly; and
Readily understandable evidence that the system incorporating all the above was regularly reviewed, that change was considered and addressed, and that the system was continuously improved.

The objective of developing this level of detail is so that:

You are far more likely to prevent sexual abuse, and
If sexual abuse nonetheless happens and a suit follows, your defense attorney has the ammunition they need to defend you from allegations of negligence to reduce the financial cost of failing to prevent sexual abuse. This information will also reduce the disruption caused by litigation to your organization or the lives of the people working for it. Most importantly, this information will significantly reduce the reputation damage sexual abuse allegations can cause.

In addition to these four core modules, we provide resources to help you make well-informed decisions while using each module.

Resource 1

Access to the Sexual Abuse Risk Management Body of Knowledge

The SAM Risk BOK is a constantly updated body of knowledge containing everything BOKRIM knows and learns about sexual abuse, sexual abuse risk, and sexual abuse risk management. It is available to every BOKSURE user and is designed to help you make well-informed decisions about how to manage your sexual abuse risk.

The SAM Risk BOK comprises all the analyses we undertake on the performance of all the sexual abuse risk management systems we help our customers manage. The SAM Risk BOK is how BOKRIM enables organizations to overcome the one thing that, above all others, prevents most organizations from using risk management best practices successfully; the lack of sufficient volumes of reliable data.

Resource 2

Workbooks to Guide you Through Every Step of the Process

The workbooks allow you to work through your assessment and customizations offline. You will need to record your assessment and customization in your BOKSURE, but you can work through both online without ever looking at the workbooks. It’s up to you.

The workbooks also enable you to share the assessment and customization processes with others to develop your assessment and system collaboratively. This not only reduces how long they can take, but it also makes them better because of more perspectives. Maybe most importantly, the collaboration also helps develop engagement with sexual abuse risk by a more comprehensive selection of people in your organization.

The workbooks enable you to arrive at the point where you can produce a table as follows (SAM refers to sexual abuse and misconduct or molestation):

SAM Risk Assessment

Sexual abuse vulnerabilities

When, where, how, and to whom minors and vulnerable adults are potentially vulnerable to SAM

Sexual abuse risks

The SAM-related risks to your organization and to the different components of your business model

SAM System Customization

Sexual abuse vulnerabilities

Sexual abuse risks

SAM System Customization

Prevention controls

The policies and procedures in place designed to prevent SAM, identify it as early as possible if it starts, and mitigate its consequences

Risk management activities

The activities of the SAM Risk group that ensure vulnerabilities, risks, and controls are and remain aligned so minors and vulnerable adults and your organization are always as well protected from SAM and its consequences as possible

When, where, how, and to whom minors and vulnerable adults are potentially vulnerable to SAM

The SAM-related risks to your organization and to the different components of your business model

The policies and procedures in place designed to prevent SAM, identify it as early as possible if it starts, and mitigate its consequences

Resource 3

A Digital Sexual Abuse Risk Management Meeting Room

One of the biggest challenges with managing any risk is to get beyond periodic, check box, and unengaged “list management.” Instead, effective risk management:

enables well-informed decision-making when decisions need to be made,
involving the right people with the right information, and
directly supports your organization in meeting its objectives.

We provide a private digital meeting room for your organization’s sexual abuse risk management group (SAM Risk Group). It is a private space that connects your risk assessment and customized system with the SAM Risk BOK. You will hold your SAM Group Meetings here and store all the meeting agendas, minutes, and action items. It is also where you store your conversations, documents, notes, photographs, and every other digital resource relating to your organization’s sexual abuse risk management.

Resource 4

A Community of Fellow Sexual Abuse Risk Managers

Most people don’t like talking or thinking about sexual abuse. So, for the people who have no choice – like you – it can be challenging to think through a problem if you have no one to talk it through with.

Also, BOKRIM cannot advise you on assessing your risk, customizing your system, or dealing with particular situations. This is because we cannot know enough about your organization or situation to do so. So you must make all your own decisions.

So, though you wouldn’t want to share sensitive information in the BOKRIM Risk Café or any other groups or forums on BOKRIM, you can ask questions or search previous discussion threads for practical answers.

Resource 5

Phone, Email, and Zoom Support

Whenever you have a question, you can email support@bokrim.com, and we will get back to you that day or the next. We try to cover weekends too, but we will always get back to you as quickly as possible.

If you have a question and would like to talk it through, you can use the phone symbol at the bottom of every BOKRIM page and call us directly. There will be a human at the end of the line.

You can book a Zoom with us if you prefer a face-to-face chat.

Resource 6

Monthly Live Q&A Sessions

Once a month, we hold a live Q&A session. No booking is required, though if you have a question, we recommend you let us know in advance to be sure we get to it.

The webinars are open to any BOKRIM user. The webinar schedules are available in the Risk Café.

Resource 7

Quarterly Ongoing Learning Sessions

Once a quarter, we collate and summarize all our latest learning on sexual abuse and how to manage sexual abuse risk. We then hold a live webinar to talk through what we have learned.

The webinars are open to any BOKRIM user. They will provide you with the latest news and information and enable you to investigate new and possibly better ways to manage your sexual abuse risk.

The webinar schedules are available in the Risk Café.

How Much Does a BOKSURE Subscription Cost?

Subscription

BOKSURE is an annual subscription service. For a single organization, a yearly subscription is $5,000.00

However, if you are an umbrella organization such as a Church with numerous parishes or a National Governing Body (NGB) with multiple sports clubs and you want to require the use of BOKSURE across all the organizations under your umbrella, please book a Zoom with us to discuss an entirely different and discounted group pricing approach.

30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee

If you are unhappy with BOKSURE after purchasing, you can cancel your subscription within 30 days for a 100% refund, no questions asked.

SAM Risk Management Rating

A BOKRIM Sexual Abuse and Misconduct (SAM) Risk Management Rating is the only information we release about how your organization manages its SAM risk.

We release the rating to you; we do not publish the rating. What you do with the rating is up to you. For example, some insurers offer up to a 25% premium discount for highly-rated organizations.

A rating expresses how you manage your SAM risk compared to the BOKRIM rating scale. The rating scale is BOKRIM’s assessment of the value of all the possible controls and activities an organization could use to manage its sexual abuse risk.

The rating includes ‘scores’ from each of the system’s Assess, Customize, and Manage stages – roughly in equal proportion.

The BOKSURE application and the rating scheme are constantly adapted as we learn more about sexual abuse risk and its management. You must regularly engage with your sexual abuse risk to maintain your rating. It also means constant sexual abuse risk management improvement is baked into the BOKSURE process.

Sexual Ause Risk Management System