Protection You Can Prove
Safe Pathways is the all‑in‑one safeguarding platform built for Canadian churches. Train your volunteers, screen them, and keep the time-stamped records that prove it.
What is Safe Pathways?
The plan. The follow-through. The proof
Safeguarding comes in three parts. Knowing what to do, actually doing it week after week, and being able to show you did. Most churches have a plan. The follow-through is harder, and the proof is the part almost no church thinks about, until the day it is needed.
Why Choose Safe Pathways?
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When an allegation or an insurance review comes, what protects the victim and your church is not a policy in a binder. It is proof that the screening, the training, and the policy sign-offs actually happened. Safe Pathways keeps every Police Check, certificate, and acknowledgement in one time-stamped Audit Report you can produce in minutes.
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Role-based training pathways take under 20 minutes. Volunteers learn only what’s relevant to their role and can start serving the same day they sign up. No more losing eager helpers to hours of training requirement.
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References, reminders, police check tracking, policy sign-offs, renewals. Safe Pathways automates the work your staff is doing manually today. That’s hours of paid staff time returned to your church every week, and fewer volunteers falling through the cracks because no one had time to follow up.
How It Works
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You will receive your insurance-specific policy suite, optional clauses, and editable resources like consent forms and board resolutions. We walk your board through what your insurer requires and what is recommended. We set up admin accounts for your church administrators.
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Import your volunteers from Planning Center or Rock RMS or a spreadsheet, assign volunteers their role-based pathway, and let them complete their under-20-minute training on their own time or together in person in a Watch Party.
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From here, Safe Pathways handles the follow-up. Reminder emails go out automatically. References are contacted and collected automatically. Expiring credentials get flagged. Police Checks are ordered. Policy acknowledgements are collected. And anytime you need it, you can pull a complete Audit Report in under two minutes.
Why the record matters
Most survivors of child sexual abuse do not come forward for decades. On average, not until around age 52. In Canada, there is no statute of limitations.
So the question is not whether your church did the right thing. It is whether you can still prove it, today, tomorrow, and years from now.
That is what Safe Pathways protects. Every police check, every training record, every policy acknowledgement, every note by your staff, kept in one time-stamped Audit Report and archived for 50 years, so the proof is still there on the day it is needed.
Discover our learning pathways.
Onboarding your volunteers has never been easier.
Each learning pathway is delivered through Safe Pathways engaging video content. Volunteers can complete their pathway under 20-minutes.
Our safeguarding learning pathways
Introduction
Babies & Toddlers
Youth
Children
Comprehensive
Vulnerable Adults
All pathways include video instruction, a knowledge check quiz, and a completion certificate. Training can be completed on your own or in a Watch Party for group learning.
Pay as you grow.
One simple price per volunteer, per year, with every Pathway and every feature included. No membership fees, no per-session charges, no add-ons.
Pricing runs from $14.99 down to $6.99 per volunteer per year, depending on how many volunteers you cover. The more you train, the lower your per-volunteer rate. Volume pricing and denominational pricing are available. Pricing is for volunteers serving directly with children, youth, or vulnerable adults.
Every plan includes the following features:
✔Access to role-based pathways
✔ Under-20-minute training videos
✔ Automated reminders
✔ Policy sign-off
✔ Police checks
… and more!
Meet our team.
Husband & wife co-founders.
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Pastor Stephanie (Registered Early Childhood Educator) translates the art and science of early childhood development into clear, role-specific training for church volunteers. With an Early Childhood Education diploma, an honours bachelor’s degree in ECE, and a Master’s in Early Childhood Studies where she explored how children construct identity and belonging, she channels rigorous research into the micro-learning pathways and policy templates.
Over more than a decade on the front lines of pastoral care she has managed six-figure children’s ministry budgets, led volunteer teams, taught in licensed daycare classrooms, provided one-on-one family support as a nanny and parent-relief worker, and partnered with public schools to embed age-appropriate safeguards. Stephanie has also developed concise courses that equip pastors to weave truth and reconciliation principles and robust duty-of-care standards into everyday ministry practice.
Certified in Mental Health First Aid, First Aid and CPR, the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths tool, and High Five quality assurance, she ensures every Safe Pathway lesson is trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, and ready for Sunday morning reality.
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Steve transforms world-class safeguarding standards into streamlined, evidence-backed processes that churches can implement with confidence. He helped the United Nations develop its system-wide Zero Tolerance of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policy suite and e-learning course, experience that now informs the evidentiary standards Safe Pathways builds into every volunteer pathway.
Founder of a Canadian charity Finance Engage Sustain (FES), Steve created and delivered engaging education - both in-person and online - to more than 500 high schools, colleges, and universities in all 13 Canadian provinces and territories, reaching over 100,000 trainees. The mastery-based micro-learning model he pioneered there sits at the core of Safe Pathways digital curriculum.
Steve has also served as committee member, board director, and elder in congregations ranging from church plants to multi-sites, giving him an insider’s grasp of pastoral realities and governance.
A Certified Fund Raising Executive, University of Toronto science graduate, and owner of a strategy consultancy, Steve has served clients like the United Nations, governments, foundations, and nonprofits.