Prevention & Education

Internet Safety Tips

• Monitor apps, limit usage, and have discussions about your youth’s online activity. Consider these Family Contracts for Online Safety:

  Parents' Pledge

  Kids' Pledge

• Information that should NEVER be shared online:

  Passwords
  Addresses 
  Locations 
  School name 
  Phone numbers

• Encourage your kids to never click on pop-ups or enter to win prizes. 

• Keep computers in a family room, not in your child’s bedroom 

• If your youth has social media sites, have a talk with them about adjusting the settings to private on all of their profiles, so that only certain people can see what is posted. 

• Consider downloading an app that gives you access to limit your child’s internet access. Below are some apps to consider:

  Ourpact 

  Google Family Link 

  ZenScreen 

  Life360

Healthy Conversations

• Start having conversations with your children as young as the age of 2 about what is a safe touch versus an unsafe touch

• Teach your children the correct names for body parts, so if something were to happen to them, they have the words to be able to describe what happened

• Listen if your child has questions; find ways to bring up the topic of safe vs. unsafe touches in your daily life

Safe Environments

Ask yourself and organizations your child is involved in some of these questions:

• Is it an open environment? Are the activities open for observation by the parents?

• Are the staff and volunteers trained in child abuse reporting?

• Does the organization have a child protection policy that minimizes isolated, one-on-one contact between an adult and child?

Child protection trainings

Interested in scheduling a child protection training for a group, faith community, or other child-serving organization? Contact Martha, Training Specialist, at martha@cacsp.org.