Safeguarding & due diligence
The three questions every safeguarding review asks — and CFR's written answer to each.
Churches, rehab centres and ministries in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and beyond bring CFR to their people. This page is what you hand to your board, insurer or denomination when they ask how it fits your policy.
1. Who can see what?
Your organisation sees names, join dates and anonymous participation totals. Nobody in your organisation can read a member's chats, journal, check-ins or course answers — the system does not expose them. Written down, in plain English.
Read the plain-English privacy answer2. Who is supervising the volunteers?
Recovery to Service peer supporters train for 36 weeks under a named supervisor who signs every gateway. Every graduate is on a public register that you — or a worried parent — can check in ten seconds.
Verify a peer supporter3. Can we show due diligence?
Peer support and Bible-study material, not clinical therapy — so no counselling licence is required to run it. Data handled to GDPR standards. Concern reporting built in. Seat records, invoices and supervisor sign-offs are all in your dashboard when a board or insurer asks.
What CFR is — and what it deliberately is not.
- Peer support and discipleship material, written from lived experience of addiction and ministry
- Sequential Bible-based courses released week by week, for the addict and separately for the family
- A private AI companion for the hours between meetings — text on every plan, voice on paid plans
- A supervised, verifiable training route (Recovery to Service) for people in recovery who want to serve others
- Clinical therapy, counselling or medical treatment — we never diagnose, prescribe or replace a doctor
- A crisis service — every page links to country helplines and a written "help for tonight" path
- A substitute for your own safeguarding policy, DBS/background checks or local reporting duties
- A way for a church or centre to read what members write — the system does not expose it, by design
Where it's used
The same three answers hold wherever you are.
We're a ministry, not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice; local safeguarding, background-check and data-protection rules still apply. Tell us your jurisdiction and we'll help you map CFR onto them.
Questions boards actually ask.
Do we need a counselling licence to run CFR?
No. CFR is peer support and Bible-study material, not clinical therapy. It is run by churches, rehab centres and ministries as a study group or as private memberships. Where your jurisdiction regulates clinical practice, CFR sits outside it because it makes no clinical claims.
Can our church or centre read members' chats or course answers?
No. Your dashboard shows names, join dates, last login and anonymous participation totals. Chats, journals, check-ins and course answers are never exposed to your organisation — the system does not provide a way to view them.
How are Recovery to Service peer supporters supervised?
Each candidate is sponsored by a church, centre or ministry that appoints a named supervisor. That supervisor signs each of four gateways across 36 weeks; a candidate who does not meet the standard is not certified. Graduates appear on a public register anyone can verify by registration number.
What happens if someone raises a concern about a peer supporter or member?
There is a built-in concern-reporting route reviewed by the CFR team. Registered peer supporters can have their register entry suspended or withdrawn. Your own local reporting duties always apply alongside this.
Is CFR GDPR compliant?
Member data is handled to GDPR standards: minimal collection, cookie consent, a plain-English privacy policy, and members can request deletion. If your jurisdiction has its own data law, the same principles apply and we will help you document them.
Does CFR replace our safeguarding policy?
No. It is designed to fit inside yours. Use this page and /who-can-see-my-chats as the appendix that answers what CFR does, and keep your own policy for background checks, reporting and local law.
Need this mapped onto your policy?
Send us your safeguarding policy or your board's questions and we'll reply with a written answer you can file.
Why people stop looking once they find us
The only Christian recovery service built for all four people in the room: the addict, the family, the church and the rehab centre.
Most options make you choose: faith or structure, the addict or the family, a meeting or something that's there at 3am. We built the whole thing under one roof, with safeguarding written into it — so nobody has to settle for half an answer.
Three sequential courses (8 + 17 + 12 weeks), a private AI companion at 3am, daily check-ins. First course free, forever.
Start freeTheir own courses — spouses, parents, siblings, adult children and children from age 5. Not a footnote to the addict's programme.
Find your courseFull memberships for your people by invite code, a materials licence for the room, and a written answer to "who can see what".
See church optionsAftercare that survives discharge, plus Recovery to Service — a supervised, verifiable path from former resident to peer supporter.
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