Child Safety on the Internet

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Nancy McBride
National Safety Director, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.missingkids.com  
1-800-THE-LOST

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42 U.S.C. §§ 5771 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 11606; 22 C.F.R. § 94.6),

The NCMEC serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children, operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation, provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children, assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals, distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide, coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector, networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases and provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure the protection of children.

Child Safety on the Internet

In this video series, Nancy McBride, the National Safety Director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children answers questions regarding personal child safety on topics ranging from the Internet, School safety, Holiday safety, and information about child identification. The Q&A provides helpful tips and tools for parents and guardians to help keep their children safer.

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Nancy McBride: My name is Nancy McBride. I work for the National Center for Missing and Exploited children, and today we are going to talking about the internet, some of the potential risks and dangers and what parents and guardians can do to help safeguard their kids online, and some tips for the kids themselves to know what to do, if they are approached online or if anything bothers them while they are online.

Before we get started, I want you to just take a couple of minutes to think about some of things you were taught as a child yourself about staying safer. The internet may not have even been included in those messages, because this is relatively new phenomenon. So, I know there are many parents and guardians out there, who may feel overwhelmed, may not be as adept on the computer as their kids are. So, we want to make sure that these tools and tips are useful for you, help you get up to speed, so you can make sure your kids are having a positive online experience.

I have been with the National Center since 1990 and I have been in this field for 20 years. I have written a number of articles and publications on this subject, and it's very important at this point that we talk about the internet and how we can keep kids safer online. So, let s gets started on that.

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