| By: Bridgid Normand Teaching Touching Safety Rules: Safe and Unsafe Touching—Activity Grades K–5—Knowing what to say can be hard when teaching your kids about their personal space and how to protect themselves. This quick-guide is here to help.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Reporting Child Sexual Abuse is Key in Protecting Kids Sharing information about child sexual abuse, including how to recognize it and how to respond to and report it, is an important way to keep children safe.” Read More
| By: Committee for Children Two Myths About Child Sexual Abuse There’s a lot we can do to help keep our children safe from abuse when we know the facts. Learn about what you should know, and what you can do.Read More
| 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 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