Young people deserve safe environments where they can connect, learn, love, and thrive both off and online. Advances in technology have sparked new and positive opportunities! However, they have also opened the door to serious threats and profound harms to children’s safety and wellbeing.Rather than improving with time, these problems are worsening at an exponential rate, with the Internet Watch Foundation reporting 2021 as the worst year on record for online child sexual exploitation. The scope and magnitude of the dangers may seem daunting. But change is possible if every one of us fights to secure a safer, more joyful future for our children. (From the document).

This is a resource from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). Record #8102