Social Media and Youth: Threats and Solutions

Threats and Solutions provides an in-depth look for professionals who work in child safety and how teens use social media apps and other social networking platforms.

This presentation explores the unique threats that exist online: cyberbullying, impersonation, identity theft, sexting, sexual predators, human trafficking, digital reputation management, pornography, and other high-risk behaviors. The second half of the presentation will show how to keep children safe online by using various techniques and resources.

Course Topics:

Risks associated with popular social media sites:
1. How sex predators use social media to contact children
2. Social media, depression and self-harm
3. How to identify online human trafficking recruitment
4. The role of pornography and human trafficking and how to talk to young people about online pornography.
5. Practical steps to keeping children safe online.

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