How to keep kids safe
Are you looking for tools for family safety planning? Do you wonder what steps you can taketo keep your children from being abused? How can you tell if your school is a safe place for your child? Are you worried about registered sex offenders in your community? Learn how establishing good family boundaries can help keep children safe. Find out how healthy sex education can support a child. Get support and guidance around safety planning when you're notified of a registered sex offender in your community.
Adults with sexual offenses in the community
- Are my children safe in a home where an offender lives?
- Can abusers be rehabilitated?
- How do I warn this family about my abuser?
- My daughter is dating a pedophile, what do I do?
- Preparing children for stranger danger.
- Should I contact the police about a sex offender in the neighborhood hanging out with young boys?
- Should I date a sex offender?
- What can I do to make sure a previous abuser doesn't harm a child I care about?
- What can I legally tell people about the abuser who hurt my kids?
- What is the legal distance a registered sex offender can live near a school or a park?
- What should I do if a sex offender lives in my apartment complex?
Disability Related
- Are my child’s special needs care providers at risk to abuse my child?
- How can I stop my child, who has a disability, from masturbating?
- How can I teach my naïve 14 year old the signs of a sexual predator?
- Is my Autistic son being sexually abused at school?
- My brother with Down syndrome is touching other kids.
Healthy sex education
- Dating as a prevention minded parent.
- Did my daughter experience assault from her boyfriend?
- Early prevention steps with toddlers.
- How do I talk to a 16 year-old about the risks of sharing nudes online?
- I walked in on my 9 year old son in a dress, what is normal sexual behavior at this age?
- I'm an adult survivor of child sexual abuse and want to protect my daughter from being abused.
- Is my 3 year old's sexual behavior normal?
- Is talking to kids about sex harmful?
- What preventive steps can I teach a 3 year old?
- Why is my toddler touching himself in public?
Prevention and Safety Planning
- Dating as a prevention minded parent.
- How can parents find safe child care in emergencies?
- How do I let my students know I'm a safe person to talk to?
- I'm attracted to children and I want to stay safe during quarantine.
- Is talking to kids about sex harmful?
- My ex said something disgusting to a child as a joke. Should I have done more?
- What makes a person offend for the first time?
Setting boundaries
- Are these boyfriend's behaviors abusive?
- How do I get my elderly aunt to stop kissing my children?
- How do I help my husband understand the difference between affection and abuse?
- How do I report concerns about my child's pediatrician?
- How do I talk to our neighbor who is following children?
- How should I deal with my husband's very mild fondling of my daughters?
- How to explain safe behaviors between children - to a child
- I'm worried about my boyfriend around my kids.
- Is groping and dirty talk in front of children okay?
- Is it a problem for me to have my hands in my pants around my kids?
- Is it normal for men to get erections while bouncing a baby on their lap?
- Is my teenage son's behavior normal?
- My ex said something disgusting to a child as a joke. Should I have done more?
- My family denies my brother's warning signs.
- My friend doesn't respect personal space, will they abuse a child?
- My partner's child is touching my breasts, what do I do?
- Sexual comments by grandma.
- What to do about my parents' inappropriate behavior with my daughter?
Talking with children and teens about safety
- Early prevention steps with toddlers.
- How can I teach my naïve 14 year old the signs of a sexual predator?
- How do I help this child online if I don't know them?
- How do I start the conversation about sex with my teen granddaughter?
- I found out that a young person is sexting. Should I talk to her parents?
- I'm an adult survivor of child sexual abuse and want to protect my daughter from being abused.
- I’m 18 and learned my online roleplay partner lied about their age and is actually 12. How do I make sure they stay safe online?
- Parents want help to respond to daughter's sexual behaviors after she was sexually harmed by another child.
- Preparing children for stranger danger.
- Should different aged brothers share a bedroom?
- What preventive steps can I teach a 3 year old?
- What should I do about adult men contacting my 11 year old granddaughter on Facebook?
- What should parents do to protect children on Facebook?
Working with schools and camps
- Adult involved with youth makes girls feel uncomfortable.
- Are my child’s special needs care providers at risk to abuse my child?
- How can I advocate for children involved in school-based sexual incident in school?
- How do I let my students know I'm a safe person to talk to?
- Is teacher’s behavior normal or “over the line”?
- My brother with Down syndrome is touching other kids.
- My child's school didn't notify me of an incident, what can I do to make sure she's safe?
- My daughter says her coach is creepy, how do I address this?
- One boy pressured another at camp.
- Parents want preschool to respond to sexualized behaviors.
- Protecting camp counselors and campers.
- Should I worry if a camp doesn’t allow cell phones or email?
- The gymnastic assistant is texting my daughter.
- What should I do after an adult who worked at our school was accused of abuse?
- What to do when two kindergartners play a “pants down” game at school?