Safe Church & Pastoral Response

The Pastoral Response Coordinator receives disclosures of clergy sexual misconduct and coordinates any response necessary, working closely with the bishop on all matters. Clergy and lay persons may call her to discuss related concerns in this area.

Robin Hammeal-Urban
Pastoral Response Coordinator
Phone: 860-233-4481 or 800-842-0126 in CT, ext 122
rurban@ctdiocese.org

Robin Hammeal-Urban is an attorney with work experience on cases involving housing, domestic violence and poverty. In addition to serving as pastoral response coordinator, she also coordinates safe church training.

Contact Robin Hammeal-Urban at rurban@ctdiocese.org about documents or links you would like to see on this page.

Safe Church & Pastoral Response Resources, including links to the training schedule, Healthy Church Practices, background-check information, policies regarding children and youth, and more.

Why would I ever want to call the Pastoral Response Coordinator?

Safe Church Training Schedule and online registration .

October 17, 2006 letter from Bishop Smith about background checks

House of Bishops 2003 pastoral letter on child sexual abuse

Healthy Church Practices

Policy for the Protection of Children & Youth (revised December 2006)

Background Check Information
Why do we need background checks?
Application to Participate in Ministry with Children & Youth
End User Agreement for Sterling Testing Systems
Credit Application for Sterling Testing Systems
A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act in Spanish

Consent and Disclosure Forms for Sterling Testing Systems
1. Employee with a credit report
2. Employee without a credit report
3. Volunteer with a credit report
4. Volunteer without a credit report
5. Volunteer without a Social Security number
6. Standard consent form
7. Standard consent form in Spanish
8. Parent consent for a minor