| By: Kim Gulbrandson Tools to Keep Kids Safe—Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Two of the biggest safety topics among parents of young children are how to keep children safe from predators (both people the family already knows and strangers) and how to ensure that friends’ home environments are safe to visit.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson How and When to Have Conversations About Child Sexual Abuse Child sexual abuse is prevalent but silenced. It’s crucial to have conversations with kids of all ages and adults to help prevent it and respond to it when you’re told. Here you’ll find where, when, and how to start the conversation.Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Keeping Kids Safe Taking time to educate and prepare your child for the unforeseeable is not only wise, but can also provide peace of mind. CFC parenting blogger Melissa Benaroya explains.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Second Step Child Protection Unit: Working Together to Keep Kids Safe Learn how policies and procedures, staff training, student lessons, and family materials in the Child Protection Unit for Early Learning through Grade 5 help keep children safe from child abuse and neglect.Read More
| By: Committee for Children What Our Partners Are Doing The National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation have published their six key policy pillars and we support them!Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Call On the first Friday of my first week in my first year of teaching, I had to make the call. “Peter” came to school with a huge bruise on his forehead. I asked him what happened, and he said his dad hit him. There was further discussion, and as a first-year teacher, I had to make the call right then and there. Not just the actual call to Child Protective Services (CPS), but the call that as a teacher, I would do anything in my power to keep children safe – physically, socially, and emotionally. Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Not in Room 204 When a teacher goes beyond a standard “stranger danger” lesson to tell her class it's more likely to be someone a child knows who touches a child inappropriately and that she would help anyone who had a touching problem, this is just the information and encouragement young Regina needs to report her own scary secret. Read More
| By: Committee for Children He Just Disclosed in Class! What Do I Do? The goal of the Child Protection Unit lessons is to develop students' ability to recognize, report, and refuse unsafe or sexually abusive situations. During the lessons, students will hear stories and scenarios about children in unsafe and potentially abusive situations who use their skills to stay safe. This may prompt students to disclose information about similar situations in their own lives, sometimes in the middle of a lesson in front of the entire class! Needless to say, this can put teachers in an uncomfortable position, and in the moment it's hard to know how to respond.Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Second Step Child Protection Unit: A New Approach to Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect Committee for Children has long been at the forefront of the effort to prevent child sexual abuse. In fact child sexual abuse prevention was the goal of Committee for Children's first published curriculum, the Talking About Touching program. Committee for Children has come a long way since then, bringing the power of social-emotional learning into schools around the world with the Second Step program and helping prevent bullying with the Second Step: Bullying Prevention Unit. Much has also changed in the field of child abuse prevention since the release of the Talking About Touching program, so Committee for Children recently returned to its roots and created the Child Protection Unit, a new Second Step unit designed to help protect children from sexual abuse and other forms of abuse and neglect. Read More
| By: Committee for Children Four Tips for Creating a Safe and Supportive Classroom It's Monday morning, and your student Charlie storms in, pushing people and throwing things. With Charlie, there are lots of days like this, especially after the weekend. But what you do next can make a big difference to Charlie's day, to your day, and to his overall experience in school. Senior Program Developer Bridgid Normand gives four practical tips for creating an environment in which Charlie and all your other students can learn. Read More