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Child Safety on the Internet
What are some of the potential hazards and risks for children on the internet?
What can parents do to help safeguard their children while online?
What information should children never divulge online?
What should parents know about social networking sites?
Should children ever agree to meet someone in person who they have met online?
What if a child is being bullied online?
What are some resources on online safety?
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Nancy McBride
National Safety Director, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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.
What are some resources on online safety?
Host: What are some resources on online safety?
Nancy McBride: The National Center has a number of resources that deal with online safety and pornography involving children, one of them is called the Cyber Tip Line and that s our resource where members of the community can actually report tips or moves regarding Online Enticement, pornography involving children, misleading domain names, and other instances in which the activity is most likely illegal or in some way is a threat to the child, and the website for the Cyber Tip Line is cybertipline.
com, and if you go and visit that website, you will see a number of prompts that that will lead you to the actual reporting form and give you more information about things like Online Enticement or pornography involving children.
Another website that s really helpful as far as child safety and prevention is our net smart workshop and that netsmartz.
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Host: What are some resources on online safety?
Nancy McBride: The National Center has a number of resources that deal with online safety and pornography involving children, one of them is called the Cyber Tip Line and that s our resource where members of the community can actually report tips or moves regarding Online Enticement, pornography involving children, misleading domain names, and other instances in which the activity is most likely illegal or in some way is a threat to the child, and the website for the Cyber Tip Line is cybertipline.
com, and if you go and visit that website, you will see a number of prompts that that will lead you to the actual reporting form and give you more information about things like Online Enticement or pornography involving children.
Another website that s really helpful as far as child safety and prevention is our net smart workshop and that netsmartz.
org. This is the website that provides interactive activities and information for kids, teens, parents and guardians, educators, and Law and Enforcement. We have downloadable programs. The Law Enforcement and educators can actually present this information to children and it deals with both online safety and real world safety, because the line between that those two is getting very blurry now. So, we want to make sure that kids are safer while they are on a computer, but that also carries over to what they are doing in the real world.
So, number of great activities on netsmartz.
org and relatively new service that we are providing is one called NETSMART411.
org and this is the site where adults and members of the community can actually post questions to our experts, who are all staff of our Exploitated Child Unit. So, if you have got a question about internet safety or something to do with the internet in general, you can post the question and get a response from our experts. We have also got a list that frequently asked questions, so you may find the answer to what you are looking for right on NETSMART411.
org.
All of these resources are available to the community free of charge. Our information can be downloaded, it can be shared with other people, and I really encourage you to visit these websites and learn more about online safety, real world safety, and child safety in general.
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