• All volunteers in the Diocese of Paterson who work with children must fulfill the following requirements:
  1. Background Check
  2. Sign the Code of Conduct
  3. Attend a Virtus Training, i.e. Protecting God's Children Workshop
  4. Complete the Virtus online Anti-Harassment Training
   

  If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Connie T. Gibson, Parish Office Administrator/Parish Youth Protection-Safe Environment Coordinator at 973.827.3190 or email [email protected]
   

  If any person may have been abused by any priest, they should immediately contact their local County Prosecutor’s Office and the Diocese’s Victims Assistance Coordinator: Dr. Ken McNiel at 973.879.1489. You may also be in touch with either of the Diocesan Response Officers: Rev. Msgr. James T. Mahoney, Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia, 973.777.8818 Ext. 205 or Sister Joan Daniel Healy, S.C.C., Chancellor/Delegate for Religious, 973.777.8818 Ext. 248.
   

  The entire text of the Policy of the Diocese of Paterson in response to complaints of Sexual Abuse is available on the Diocesan website: www.patersondiocese.org