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 offenders 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?
- Should I contact the police about a sex offender in the neighborhood hanging out with young boys?
- Should I date a sex offender?
- Stranger danger.
- 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
- Early prevention steps with toddlers.
- 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?
- What preventive steps can I teach a 3 year old?
- Why is my toddler touching himself in public?
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 should I deal with my husband's very mild fondling of my daughters?
- I'm worried about my boyfriend around my kids.
- Is groping and dirty talk in front of children okay?
- Is it normal for men to get erections while bouncing a baby on their lap?
- Is my teenage son's behavior normal?
- My family denies my brother's warning signs.
- Sexual comments by grandma.
- What am I doing to cause suspicion of harm?
- 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 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.
- Parents want help to respond to daughter's sexual behaviors after she was sexually harmed by another child.
- Should different aged brothers share a bedroom?
- Stranger danger.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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 to do when two kindergartners play a “pants down” game at school?