Child Evangelism Fellowship
Code of Conduct

This code of conduct outlines what is considered appropriate interaction between a CEF worker and a minor child. This code should be followed by CEF staff and volunteers.
Appropriate & Encouraged 
Interactions
  • Praise, encouragement, & acknowledgement
  • Rewards available to all who achieve
  • Pats on the back or shoulder
  • Side hugs
  • Handshakes & high-fives
  • Asking a child’s permission to help with things like, shoe tying, putting on back packs or outerwear (jackets) & gathering personal effects to take home.
  • Warmth & kindness
  • Public social media alerts to groups of kids & parents through an official CEF operated forum.
Inappropriate & Prohibited 
Interactions
  • Isolated one-on-one interactions
  • Risqué jokes
  • Profanity
  •  Favoritism
  • Gift giving to individual children
  • Frontal hugging
  • Photographing or video recording individual children without R-32 permission
  • Contact outside of program activities
  •  Exchanging of personal email or phone numbers
  •  Private interactions through social media, computer, or handheld devices
Harmful & Prohibited 
Interactions
  •  Patting buttocks
  •  Lap sitting
  • Actions or speech that humiliates, threatens, ridicules, degrades or frightens.
  • Corporal Punishment of any kind
  • Touching of personal areas; face, mouth, legs, breasts, stomach, genitals.
  •  Intimate, romantic or sexual conduct
  • Showing pornography or involving youth in pornography
Below is our "Online Background Check Application & Worker's Compliance Agreement".
​You may apply to volunteer with our local chapter by completing the online application.
Online Background Check Application Form