Information & Resources
Online Dangers Information (last update: Sept 2023)
Info Conseil : INTERNET SAFETY AND OUR YOUTH - Sextortion (SPVM, 2023)
Expert panel: What parents and caregivers need to know - Cyberbullying and Online Child Sexual Exploitation (1h06) (Public Safety Canada, Feb 2022)
Video: Safeguarding Children and Youth - Online Risks and Emerging Trends (15 min.) (Canadian Center for Child Protection, 2022)
Educate children on Online Safety, Cyber Violence, and Sexting - these are also key components of Sexuality Education!
Resources to open discussion about the use of technology and online safety
Are You Web Aware?
This could be an interesting activity to do as a family. Each of you could fill out your own checklist then compare and discuss your answers.
Are-you-web-aware-checklist-ages9-12.pdfare-you-web-aware-checklist-ages13-17.pdfAre-you-web-aware-checklist-parents.pdfUse these tech planners to help your kids think through important questions around tech use: What will I do? How much time will I spend? Am I making thoughtful choices?
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Protecting Children Online
With Family Link, you decide what’s best for your family. Easy-to-use tools allow you to understand how your child is spending time on their device, manage privacy settings and more.
Information and resources about Internet Safety to help parents keep their child safe while online.
-Click here to read about kids' interests online, by group age, and the risks behind it.
-Additional Information on multiple online reality (Exposure to Sexually Explicit Material, Exploitation, Phone Safety Tips, Online Boundaries, etc.)
Parents Booklet with information on trends and online risks such as self/peer exploitation, online luring and cyberbullying. Available in En and Fr (Download the free PDF).
Should an unfortunate online victimization is discovered: Online Child Sexual Victimization: Picking up the Pieces
MediaSmart is a website for children, teens and parents that offers information, activities, and educational games on media and digital issues.
Interactive platform that includes comic books, game and information for 8 to 10-years-olds to learn, while having fun, on how to play safely online.
PAUSE promotes a balanced use of the Internet and screens to prevent the risks associated with HYPERCONNECTIVITY. They offer different prevention and intervention resources such as:
Downloadable tools (guide to better manage screen use, a parent-teen contract on cell phone use, etc.)
A youth zone with quiz, articles, and tools
Suggestions of books
Help services, etc.
Preventing Cyber Violence
Information on Online Luring, Intimate Images, Sextortion and Online Sexual Violence. You will also find Online Safety resources and tools.
Resources for any significant adult in a teenager’s life to deal with young people’s use of technology. They propose a variety of articles, videos, and other tools to help maintain an ongoing dialogue around the use of technology in order to ensure their safety while surfing online.
Interactive platform for teens that offers 5 simulations of exchanges by text messages to understand the different forms of violence in a relationship. ''What if I told you this is violence?''
The project aims to provide parents with knowledge and awareness on cyberviolence in teen dating relationship. You will have access to 4 animated short videos, a parent's information guide and 5 fact sheets.
Raising Awareness about Sexting
Important to remember...
Once your photo or video is sent, it no longer belongs to you. The recipient could use it against you to bully, humiliate or even blackmail. Sometimes people can even get their victims involved in sexual exploitation activities.
Website with information for youth about intimate images, internet safety, and sextorsion.
Video: Sharing of Sexts
Educates tweens and teens about sextortion and provides a unique way to prevent it: downloadable naked mole rat gifs and memes.
''The best way to fight sextortion is to prevent it. So don’t send nudes, send a naked mole rat instead''
Website with legal information on different topics. For English information regarding the sharing of intimate images, click here.
Vidéo : Partager des photos intimes d'une personne sans son accord.
Removing an Online Picture
Information for youth about how to manage issues that may arise from sexting incidents, as well as steps that can be taken to request images/videos be removed from websites.
