{"id":6094,"date":"2023-11-16T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/?page_id=6094"},"modified":"2025-07-15T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:10:55","slug":"career-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/?page_id=6094","title":{"rendered":"Safe Spaces for Worship and Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:14px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer gutenify-section-eb0fe2d0-3c93-11ee-bed6-f5c39f6aa39f gtfy-1\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-foreground-color has-text-color has-link-color has-content-heading-font-size gutenify-section-fa62dab0-841b-11ee-b5e1-67208a0c2993 wp-elements-adadf22991848b6423d09af380c94084 gtfy-4\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><strong>Creating Safe and Respectful Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size gutenify-section-a6b7a410-617b-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 gtfy-7\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><br>The Creating Safe and Respectful Environments policy, has been created to ensure that safe and supportive environments are provided to everyone connected to the work of The United Church of Canada.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer gutenify-section-8c693730-617c-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 gtfy-10\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size gutenify-section-a7c76660-617b-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 gtfy-13\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size gutenify-section-93577760-617b-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 gtfy-16\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">This policy applies to all communities of faith and congregations, and to the General Council and Regional Council offices, as well as other church organizations that choose to adopt this policy. Communities of faith or other affiliated entities may adopt this policy or develop one of their own. If a community of faith or other affiliated entity develops their own policy, procedures must be in keeping with The United Church of Canada\u2019s policy so consistent application of process can be ensured. Where a community of faith or other affiliated entity has not developed their own policy, then, by default, this policy will be in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer gutenify-section-829d1f30-841c-11ee-b5e1-67208a0c2993 gtfy-19\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-boulder-color has-text-color has-link-color has-content-heading-font-size gutenify-section-e3a7c4e0-617b-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 wp-elements-cc8884c23d604f4eaf1786328d992955 gtfy-22\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><strong>Downloads<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer gutenify-section-9efdfd90-617c-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 gtfy-25\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size gutenify-section-99dd31c0-617a-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 wp-elements-aaa058e7a0cb3aebea3b192e6a464d0a gtfy-28\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/creating-safe-and-respectful-environments-policy.pdf\">Creating Safe and Respectful Environments Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size gutenify-section-07019ab0-617c-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 wp-elements-df7fe486a33a9ac2e17cefcee1e83ead gtfy-31\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BSUC_Workplace_Harassment_Response_Policy_Addendum.pdf\">BSUC Workplace Discrimination, Harassment and Violence Response Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size gutenify-section-b5cd9960-617a-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 wp-elements-b7cc312eea8fea75b465263d30eae654 gtfy-34\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/s09023\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/s09023\">Bill C 168<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-a80e8c10-617c-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 gtfy-37\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-cd4d0060-617c-11f0-94de-f90ac745dfe7 gtfy-40\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-2427cdc0-617d-11f0-8f80-b3820ee0c0ea gtfy-43\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating Safe and Respectful Environments The Creating Safe and Respectful Environments policy, has been created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6094","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6094\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgestreetchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}