FOR SCHOOLS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.