For Educators & Youth Workers

Safe and Unsafe Touching 

This presentation works to build children’s safety and competence by providing them with an understanding of what is appropriate and safe as well as what is inappropriate and unsafe. Additionally, the presentation aims to educate children about the names of different body parts. This is essential as it enhances communication between children and adults. Therefore, if a child needs to communicate something that happened, they can do so in a way that does not rely on idiosyncratic language; language that offenders usually use. 

Media Balance is Important 

During this presentation, students will learn about media balance and why it is important. At the end of the presentation, students will grasp concepts such as: stopping devices when someone wants to talk, knowing when it’s time to move their bodies, turning off screens before bedtime, asking before they use a device, staying only on trusted sites and apps, as well as how to listen to their feelings and tell an adult if something makes them uncomfortable. 

Safety in my Online Neighbourhood 

The power of the internet allows students to experience and visit places they might not be able to see in person. But, just like travelling in the real world, it’s important to be safe when travelling online. On this virtual field trip, kids can practice staying safe in online adventures. Through this presentation, students will learn to always ask their parent or teacher first before doing things online, only talk to people they know as well as hot to stick to places on the internet that are just right for them. 

Safe and Unsafe Secrets 

Abuse often occurs in a veil of secrecy. Therefore, in an effort to prevent abuse secrecy, this presentation aims to teach children about differences between safe and unsafe secrets, how to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touching and when to tell a trusted adult about unsafe secrets. Additionally, the presentation aims to build children’s competency about secrets of picture taking and recording, and when this is unsafe. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: A1.4 Healthy Relationships 

How Technology Makes You Feel 

This presentation challenges students to pay attention to their feelings while using technology. The presentation features an engaging emoji game, where students will learn practical strategies for managing their feelings- good, bad and everything in between.

Curriculum Fulfilments: A1.1 Identification and Management of Emotions, A1.2 Stress Management and Coping 

Internet Traffic Light 

Staying safe online is a lot like staying safe in the real world. With a rise in the use of technology, children need to know how to stay safe online. During this presentation, students will use a fun traffic light activity to learn how to identify “just right” content, giving them the green light to learn, play and explore things on the internet safely. Students will also learn what kinds of things on the internet constitute a red light, and when they should stop, log off and tell a trusted adult.

Curriculum Fulfilments: A1.2 Stress Management and Coping

Safe and Unsafe Secrets 

Child sexual abuse thrives in secrecy and manipulating children into keeping abuse a secret. Therefore, to prevent situations like this from happening, this presentation focuses on teaching children how to distinguish between appropriate and safe secrets, inappropriate/unsafe secrets, and when to keep or tell these different kinds of secrets. A core safety competence for children is to build the ability to discern when situations are safe or unsafe and then who to tell about these unsafe situations. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D2.3 Consent, standing up for yourself and others, D2.5 Knowing when to seek help. 

Putting a Stop to Online Meanness 

The internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. This can have negative impacts and damage a child’s sense of self as well as self-esteem. Through this presentation, students will understand what mean behaviour looks like, why it is often easier for people to be mean online, and how to deal with this meanness when they see it. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D2.3 Consent, standing up for yourself and others 

Digital Trails

Does what you do online always stay online? During this presentation, students will learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or “trail”. And, depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small, and harmful or helpful. Students will compare these different trails and then think critically about what kinds of information they want to leave behind.

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Personal safety and Injury Prevention 

That’s Private! 

With the rise of technology, it is important to remember that staying safe online is a lot like staying safe in the real world. Through this presentation, students will learn about what kinds of information they should keep to themselves and what kinds of things they should NOT tell a stranger. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

Safe and Unsafe Secrets 

This presentation works to instil the core concept of personal safety; knowing the difference between safe and unsafe situations and behaviours, as well as when to keep or tell secrets. Secrecy around touching and taking pictures or recording videos of children is concerning. By the end of the presentation children will have knowledge about how secrets, picture taking, and recording are unsafe secrets; and that they must be told. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.4 Healthy Relationships, Bullying, Consent

Online Safety

The internet offers enormous opportunities for learning and connectivity to the world in unprecedented ways. This interactive environment has often become an integral part of children’s lives and from ages 8 to 11, and children generally use the internet for fun and entertainment. However, when children are in certain situations, it can often be confusing for them to distinguish what information is okay or not okay to share. Therefore, in this presentation children will learn to understand the benefits of the internet, how to increase safety online, as well as how to get help if they are feeling uncomfortable online. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D2.2 Safety Guidelines Outside of Class 

The Power of Words 

As kids grow older, they will naturally start to communicate more online, but some of what they see could make them feel hurt, sad, angry, or even fearful. This can have negative consequences on a child’s confidence and self-esteem. This presentation will help your students build empathy for others and learn strategies to use when confronted with cyberbullying. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.4 Health

Safe and Unsafe Secrets 

As adults, we often assume that children know who to go to when they need help. In reality, children need to be taught who, what, and how to tell grown-ups about sensitive/dangerous situations and need practice doing it. Therefore, this presentation focuses on teaching children to identify safe grown-ups they can access for help, as well as to distinguish the difference between safe and unsafe grown-up behaviours and boundaries, how to get out of uncomfortable or unsafe situations, and how to tell a grown up something that may be difficult to share. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.3 Bullying, abuse and non-consensual behaviour. 

Online Safety 

The internet is an effective tool for children to broaden their knowledge. Most children have positive experiences on the internet. However, it is necessary for children to be aware of the risks associated with using the internet, and what to do if they come across an unsafe situation. By the end of this presentation children will be able to identify the risk and benefits of using the internet, understand the importance of personal boundaries related to online communication, pictures, videos, and livestreaming, as well as demonstrate skills for responding to situations that present risk online.

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.2 Safe use of technology, D1.3 Bullying, abuse and non-consensual behaviour. 

Be a Super Digital Citizen: How can we be upstanders when we see cyberbullying? 

Online tools and technology can be empowering for kids, however they also come with big responsibilities. Do kids always know what to do when they encounter online cyberbullying? During this presentation, students will be shown appropriate ways to take action and resolve conflict, from being upstanders, to helping others in need.

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.3 Bullying, abuse and non-consensual behaviour. 

Private and Personal Information 

While using technology, it is children’s nature to share and connect with others. But sharing online comes with some risks including exploitation, luring, grooming, and online scams. During this presentation students will learn about these risks and will be able to identify the reasons why people share information about themselves online, be able to explain the difference between private and personal information, as well as be able to explain why it is risky to share private information online. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.2 Safe use of technology

Safe and Unsafe Secrets 

Children need to know that in situations where their personal safety is at risk, they need to reach out to an adult for help as opposed to a friend. In dangerous situations, going to a friend for help without talking to an adult can also put a friend at risk. Therefore, this presentation focuses on the personal safety skill of identifying safe adults whom children can trust. Some may have many adults who they can talk to, some may only identify one, or some may need some help in identifying an adult they can go to. This presentation will help children to come up with these lists as well as teach them the necessary skills to tell adults. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Supports- Injury prevention, emergencies, bullying, violence, D2.2 Strategies- Threats to personal safety

Online Safety 

The internet is an unregulated space that is seamlessly weaved into children’s lives. Therefore, it is important that they are aware of both the benefits and risks of instantaneous communication around the world. Through this presentation, children will be empowered to identify risks and benefits of the internet, as well as know how to make safe decisions online to increase personal safety. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Supports- Injury prevention, emergencies, bullying, violence.

Digital Friendships: How do you keep online friends safe?

Kids make friends everywhere they go- including online, but are all these friendships the same? How can kids start online friendships but also learn ways to stay safe? Through this presentation, students will learn to compare the different kinds of online-only friendships, describe the benefits and risks of these friendships, and describe how to respond to an online-only friend if they ask something that makes the students uncomfortable.

Curriculum Fulfilments: D3.2 Responsibilities, risks- Care for self and others, safety practices.

Is it Cyberbullying?

With the rise of technology and children being present in online spaces, it is important to highlight that these online spaces can be full of negative, rude and downright mean behaviour. But what counts as cyberbullying? Through this presentation, students will learn to recognize the similarities and differences among being mean, how to empathize with the targets of cyberbullying, how to identify strategies for dealing with cyberbullying as well as how they can be upstanders. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Supports- Injury prevention, emergencies, bullying, violence. 

Chatting Safely Online: How do you chat safely with people you meet online? 

Games, social media, and other online spaces give kids opportunities to meet and chat with others outside the confines of their real-life communities. But how well do kids actually know the people they’re meeting and interacting with? Through this presentation, students will learn to analyse how well we know the people we interact with online, how to reflect on what information is safe to share with different types of friends online, as well as how to learn to recognize red flag feelings and use the “feelings and options” thinking routine to respond to them. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Supports- Injury prevention, emergencies, bullying, violence. 

Relationship Boundaries Online and Offline 

Teens often do not fully understand how easy it can be to lose control while on the internet, and how sharing too much information can be harmful or misused by others. Therefore, it is imperative that adolescents are aware of how to protect their own safety online. This presentation focuses on teaching teens the benefits and risk associated with the internet, how content created online can be misused, as well as how to make safe and responsible decisions while online. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D2.2 Impact of Bullying & Harassment

Sextortion: What Teens Need to Know 

Essentially, sextortion is blackmail. It is when someone threatens to send a sexual image or video of you to other people if you don’t pay them or provide them with more sexual content. This can be devastating, and it is important that teens know facts about sextortion or sexual abuse while using technology. Through this presentation, teens will be able to define sextortion, communicate risks and benefits associated with technology, identify coercive and very serious behaviour (from the Criminal Code of Canada), as well as how to respond safely to sextortion or coercion and how to get help. 

Curriculum Fulfillments: D1.1 Benefits and Dangers-Technology, D2.2 Impact of Bullying & Harassment 

My Social Media Life: How does social media affect our relationships?

For most grade 7’s and 8’s, being on social media can mean connecting with friends, sharing pictures, and keeping up to date. But it can also mean big time distractions and social pressures which can negatively affect a young person’s self-esteem. Through this presentation, students will learn to identify the role of social media in their lives, reflect on the positive and negative effects social media use has on their relationships, as well as how to recognize “red flag feelings” when using social media and consider different ways to handle them.

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Benefits and Dangers-Technology 

Sexting and Relationships

It is natural for teens to be curious and explore their emerging sexuality. But most grade 7’s and 8’s aren’t prepared for the risks of exploring this in the digital age. This presentation will help students to think critically about self-disclosure in relationships and practice how they’d respond to a situation where sexting- or a request for sexting- might happen.

Curriculum Fulfillments: D1.1 Benefits and Dangers-Technology, D2.2 Impact of Bullying & Harassment

I Am Little Red 

The purpose of the presentation is to raise awareness, educate and teach students to spot recruitment tactics by traffickers, examine their own vulnerabilities as well as learn strategies for responding to recruitment by a trafficker. During this presentation, students will watch the I Am Little Red video, which is a contemporary reimagining of the classic Little Red Riding Hood that addresses the four primary tactics a “wolf” (trafficker/pimp) will typically use to a lure a Little Red off her/his path. This video is a 10-minute animated short followed by an interactive discussion on what they have watched and what to do if they or someone they know is being lured. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: D1.1 Benefits and Dangers-Technology

Healthy Relationships 

A 2019 study in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that 6% of women surveyed that their first sexual encounter was not consensual. Therefore, to reduce this percentage to zero, there is a need to build on youth developmental assets and strengthen positive youth relationships between peers and adults to reduce child sexual victimization. Through this presentation, teens will learn to understand how attitudes and beliefs can contribute to sexual violence, what constitutes sexual consent and sexual abuse, how to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy relationships as well as how to help a friend or seek help if they have been affected by sexual abuse or assault. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: C2.2 Human Development and Sexual Health 

Chatting and Red Flags: How can you tell when an online relationship is risky?

Having conversations online, without nonverbal cues or being able to see people, can be awkward and sometimes even risky- with drawbacks from simple misunderstandings to manipulation or even inappropriate messages. This presentation will help students to identify the types of messages that might cause red flag feelings for someone as well as how to analyse and respond to a situation involving a red flag feeling. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: C1.2 Personal Safety and Injury Prevention, C2.2 Human Development and Sexual Health 

What you send in “That Moment When” … 

We’ve all faced difficult situations where what we say or do could potentially harm or hurt someone. Being honest is important, but is there such a thing as being too honest? Sometime innocent- but insensitive- comments or actions can easily escalate to digital drama or even cyberbullying. This presentation will help students to identify examples of online behaviours that may hurt, embarrass, or offend others, as well as how to respond to these digital dilemmas.

Curriculum Fulfilments: C1.2 Personal Safety and Injury Prevention 

Rewarding Relationships: How can I Make sure my relationships are heathy and positive? 

“It’s complicated” can describe many of our relationships with others, both romantic and otherwise. Add digital devices and social media to the mix, and things can get complicated even further. This presentation will help students take the first step toward building healthy and rewarding friendships and romantic relationships, both online and off. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: C2.2 & C2.3 Human Development and Sexual Health 

Can Media Be Addictive?

The word “addiction” packs a heavy punch, and the research is inconclusive on whether it is truly accurate when it comes to digital device use. What’s certain, however, is that as people use devices and apps more, profits increase for the companies who make them. This presentation will help your students recognize how most of the technology they use is designed to keep them hooked and help them use this as an opportunity to find more balance in their digital lives. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: C1.2 Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

The Consequences of Online Hate Speech 

While some governments can’t regulate hate speech, laws allow private organizations like social media apps and private universities to decide how to deal with hate speech written within their spheres. How should these organizations respond to hate speech? What is an appropriate consequence? During this presentation, students will learn whether hate speech is considered free speech, how to identify the reasons for and against regulating online hate speech, as well as how to consider the potential consequences of online hate speech. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: C1.2 Personal Safety and Injury Prevention 

Sextortion: What Teens Need to Know 

Essentially, sextortion is blackmail. It is when someone threatens to send a sexual image or video of you to other people if you don’t pay them or provide them with more sexual content. This can be devastating, and it is important that teens know facts about sextortion. Through this presentation, teens will be able to define sextortion, communicate risks and benefits associated with technology, identify coercive and serious behaviour (from the Criminal Code of Canada), as well as how to respond safely to sextortion or coercion and how to get help. 

Curriculum Fulfilments: C1.2 Personal Safety and Injury Prevention 

Relationship Boundaries Online and Offline 

Teens often do not fully understand how easy it can be to lose control while on the internet, and how sharing too much information can be harmful or misused by others. Therefore, it is imperative that adolescents are aware of how to protect their own safety online. This presentation focuses on teaching teens the benefits and risk associated with the internet, how content created online can be misused as well as how to make safe and responsible decisions while online.

Curriculum Fulfilments: C2.2 & C2.3 Human Development and Sexual Health