Child Safety Toolkit
Overview
Keep Children Safe Online and Offline
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children invites our friends in the retail industry to join us in helping keep children safe, by sharing prevention tools to help safeguard children in both digital and physical spaces. This toolkit includes resources from NCMEC’s NetSmartz® program, which teaches online safety for ages 5-17; and KidSmartz®, which teaches personal safety to kids in grades K-5.
NCMEC offers free, easy-to-use tools for children, families, and communities addressing comprehensive safety threats with short videos, discussion guides, tip sheets and activities to help keep children safer in all environments.
You can download the full toolkit or, if you prefer to build your own, each resource is available as an individual download below.
For younger children, it’s important that adults start having conversations about safety early in their lives and continue focusing on this as they grow up. Some of these topics can be very complex or even scary. For young children, the priority is to empower them to make safer decisions when they are in risky situations without scaring them. NCMEC is committed to providing free, age-appropriate resources, including videos, games, and printable activities to spark conversations about safety. For example, “Into the Cloud,” is an online safety video series that is ideal for children ages 5-10 and teaches cyberbullying, online privacy, and more. Explore this and other tools for younger children in this section.
Older children and teens need proactive and direct conversations about online risks, healthy relationships both online and off, privacy settings, responsible behavior, and reporting tools. Maintaining privacy, developing independence, and building social skills while staying safe can be challenging, but regular conversations and encouraging them to talk to you about their concerns builds trust and awareness. Use the tools in this section to start ongoing conversations to promote safer habits and explore prevention tools with older children and teens.
'The Healthy Relationships' video can help youth identify exploitive or unhealthy behaviors in relationships that are often a part of various kinds of victimizations, such as online enticement, sextortion, and child sex trafficking.
NetSmartz: Healthy Relationships
'It's called Sextortion' demonstrates how sextortion may occur, identifies some red flags, and emphasizes the importance of peers and friends being upstanders for others.
