SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Okay, so you want to engage your students and keep them safe...
Our presentations address key teen concerns and come as packages! Each presentation package includes curriculum lesson activities for teachers, an interactive prevention tool for students, and a parent toolkit.
High School Presentations:
Empowering Healthy Relationships
Social Justice: Canada's Best Kept Secret
CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
Ensuring that core competencies are met and with the goal to prevent sexual exploitation, this presentation addresses an assortment of current youth issues.
Students will be guided through peer exploitation, healthy boundaries and consent through unique activities aimed at building empathy and resilience.
In addition, self exploitation trends such as sexting, and self directed online exploitative behaviours will be covered and analyzed while educating students on the laws and their objective to protect youth. Students will also learn about online sexual predation, grooming tactics, and healthy online boundaries.
This presentation will build resiliency towards all forms of sexual exploitation and human trafficking while engaging students through humour, games, and activities.
CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
Social Justice: Canada's Best Kept Secret
CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
There is a mutual causality between sexual exploitation and youth mental health. Over 90% of sexual exploitation is now facilitated online, and at any given time, it is estimated that 750,000 predators are looking to connect with children sexually online. Social media apps and gaming platforms provide further opportunities for youth to be groomed into online sexual exploitation.
This presentation discusses the dynamics of the internet and how they play a role in exploitation. Students will learn about the 3 types of online exploiters, their different grooming tactics, as well as how internet dynamics play a role in vulnerability and susceptibility to online sexual exploitation.
Other topics covered include sextortion, current exploitation trends, peer directed exploitation, online permanency, and peer responsibility.
This presentation engages this heavy topic through humour, games, and activities.
Social Justice: Canada's Best Kept Secret
Social Justice: Canada's Best Kept Secret
Social Justice: Canada's Best Kept Secret
Human trafficking is Canada’s best hidden crime, with its most common form being sexual exploitation. Human trafficking and sexual exploitation are very local issues in Canada, with 90% of exploiters being Canadian and 90% of victims being Canadian. Taught by an expert who has dealt with youth victims, students will learn about the different forms of sexual exploitation such as grooming into trafficking, exploiter tactics online and in person, as well as peer sexual exploitation through local case examples and engaging activities.
In addition, students will critically think about barriers and vulnerabilities to sexual exploitation, understand how the law impacts the issue, and learn about how their actions can make an impact.
This presentation engages a heavy topic through humour, games, and activities.
Elementary School Presentations:
Grade 4/5 Cybersafe and Consent
Grade 6/7 CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
Grade 6/7 CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
During these primary years, where children are beginning to have more access to the internet, ensuring internet safety will be deeply connected to a child's ability to define healthy vs unhealthy situations, as well as understanding what consent looks like in person, and digitally. By educating children on healthy boundaries and consent, we also build empathy and a moral compass regarding respectful online behaviours.
The topics covered include:
- How we use the internet, why we use it, why it is a powerful tool
- Defining online predators as unhealthy online accounts and followers
- Red flags of unhealthy accounts and grooming
- Information sharing, location settings, privacy settings
- Safety in gaming
- Online permanency
- Image sharing
- Consent in person and digitally
- Healthy communications towards peers online
This presentation will facilitate these topics through multimedia, age-appropriate facilitation and games.
Grade 6/7 CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
Grade 6/7 CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
Grade 6/7 CyberSafety and Sexual Exploitation
By grade 6/7, children are in a time of rapid growth, including the ability to practice self control. These are impressionable times for developing and incorporating personal identity into consent, healthy boundaries, and healthy online behaviours.
The topics covered include:
- How we use the internet, why we use it, why it is a powerful tool
- Defining sexual exploitation
- Defining online predators as unhealthy online accounts and followers
- Healthy vs unhealthy accounts and red flags
- Grooming strategies of predators
- Information sharing, location settings, privacy settings
- Safety in gaming
- Online permanency
- Sexting and the law
- Sextortion
- Defining consent, in person and digitally
- Digital citizenship
This presentation will facilitate these topics through multimedia, age-appropriate facilitation and games.
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Pro-D Presentations
Educators and school district staff play a key role in the personal lives and safety of their students. Often times, a student's safety and wellbeing relies on school staff, who come in contact with them daily. Learn about one of the most common and under-discussed youth issues in BC: Sexual Exploitation. Staff will learn about the different forms of sexual exploitation, current trends with the students in their community, the different forms of predators and peer driven exploitation. Staff will walk away with a better understanding of how these issues affect their students and what they can do to help make a difference.
Social Service Provider/ Front Line Worker Training
Many social service providers and front line workers have youth clientele who are being sexually exploited, or at risk. These youth can go under-serviced without the proper training and education on the topic. Our presentation will educate staff on the warning signs of exploited youth, current grooming tactics, recent trends, and relevant legislature and resources to help protect their clients. Staff will also have the chance to create concrete strategies for their own clients and have their personal concerns addressed.
Law Enforcement Training
Due to the nature of coercion, many sexually exploited youth and human trafficked victims continue to go undetected by Law enforcement. Additionally, the challenges of being a front line worker and the limitations to work within the justice system can prove to be strong barriers both for victims and for law enforcement alike.
Our training covers fist glance and behavioural indicators of trafficking victims, current grooming tactics, various forms of sexual exploitation and their recent trends. Additionally, relevant legislation is discussed alongside practical human rights based strategies to assist human trafficked and sexually exploited victims.
PAC Presentations
A parent's goal is the safety and health of their child. This can feel like an impossible feat in a technology heavy and peer reliant world for our children and youth. Learn about the different forms of sexual exploitation, online and in person, alongside practical tips and strategies you can use as a parent to help keep your children and youth safe from all forms of sexual exploitation. Parents will walk away having knowledge on online sexual exploitation and how they can keep their children and youth safe.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Canadian Sexual Exploitation Summit 2023
Colorado State School District Conference 2022
International Social Justice and Human Trafficking Conference, Toledo 2022
Human Trafficking Through an Indigenous Lens 2022
International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference 2022
National Mental Health Conference 2021
RESET: Sexual Exploitation Training and Awareness Conference 2021
District 36 CUPE Pro-D Keynote 2021
RESET: Sexual Exploitation Training and Awareness Conference 2019
F.R.E.E.: World Summit to End Human Trafficking 2021