Parenting in the Online World Webinars
During the session, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection will provide information about current online risks and trends, along with practical tips for having conversations with children and youth.
SPVM - Call for vigilance: Use of digital platforms by young people (SPVM, 2024)
SPVM - Info Conseil : INTERNET SAFETY AND OUR YOUTH - Sextortion (SPVM, 2023)
Use 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?
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.
Emerging online risks
Important conversations to have with your teen
General information on the type of behaviour that could be illegal
Signs that your child may need help
Online Child Sexual Victimization: Picking up the Pieces - how they can support their child, take appropriate action to protect them, and help them to move forward and heal.
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.
Information on Online Luring, Intimate Images, Sextortion and Online Sexual Violence. You will also find Online Safety resources and tools.
Resource for parents to help guide conversations with their youth about sexually explicit AI-generated images and videos (deepfakes).
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.
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.
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.
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.