A Safe Place to Protect Precious Futures
OUR COMMITMENT
Protecting all of our children is a sacred trust. We wouldn't open the doors of this school if we didn't believe we were providing the safest environment possible. Our mandatory trainings, background checks, protocols, and even our facilities, make every member of our community a part of an integrated culture. This helps us to be proactive, preventative, awareness and risk reduction focused.
Virtus: Protecting God’s Children
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Extensive training for every member of clergy, professional staff, and even volunteer who will work with your children.
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We require background checks, Code of Conduct agreements, database tracking, and visitor screening.
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Students receive annual age appropriate trainings to empower them to be aware of their own warning signs and gives them the tools to advocate for their own safety.
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Learn the full extent of our best-in-class safe environment measures at archden.org/protection.
RESOURCES
Discipline, Freedom, and Success
Everyone from Socrates, great saints throughout time, and the leaders of nearly every great modern endeavor have famous quotes highlighting the inextricable relationship between discipline and freedom. By establishing clear rules and expectations within a school environment, students develop the self-discipline necessary to make responsible choices and ultimately achieve greater autonomy in their lives; essentially, learning to follow guidelines allows individuals to eventually exercise freedom within those boundaries. Even this spring, we are revising and bolstering the ways we ultimately help students enjoy the fruits of positive reinforcement, clear expectations, and the development of self-control that spring from a rightly ordered learning environment.
FACILITIES & PROFESSIONAL BEST PRACTICES
Major capitol investments have been made to ensure our students comfort, safety, and security here at Nativity. Here are some best-in-class capitol upgrades, protocols, and professional guidance we've benefitted from in recent years:
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54 strategically located cameras are being monitored and recording at all times. From our interior hallways, to the exterior campus, our office and I.T. teams can see nearly all corners of our facility at any moment. By the spring of ’25 we will make our final camera additions extending our exterior coverage.
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We’ve “hardened the facility” by replacing glass doors with new steel security doors (’23), adding “3M security film” to all windows accessible form the ground, and entrances electronically controlled by administrative staff. Mandatory sign-ins and badging are required for even authorized visitors.
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Our partnerships with Broomfield Police Department and Fire Department keep our various monthly drills up-to-date, help us monitor our fire readiness, and they even offer trainings in our classrooms.
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Added a 3rd wall mounted AED (‘25) alongside the first aide-kits and fire extinguishers around campus. Our school staff are CPR and AED certified!
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Our wider parish community invested $800,000 in 2024 to update our HVAC, roofing, and other foundational structural items across the campus. Our preventative maintenance guidelines are meant to keep our parishioners and students comfortable for the foreseeable future.
