Digital Sexual Exploitation Workshops
Empowering youth and guardians with the tools to keep kids safe
The Issue
As childhood and adolescence increasingly unfold online, tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and image-based sexual abuse have surged, posing a serious threat to children’s safety. Young people are inundated with social media content that normalizes hyper-sexualization through glamorizing OnlyFans and sugar dating, while exposure to violent pornography is occurring at ever younger ages. Together, these trends encourage dangerous norms that distort consent and encourage young people to view themselves and others primarily through a sexual lens, increasing their vulnerability to online predators.
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Workshop Offerings
Our workshops are developed and led by young professionals who have grown up in the digital age and use their personal and professional insights to enrich our trainings.
High School-aged Students
2-part interactive training that teaches young people media literacy skills and social media best practices, and how to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse online.
- Addresses negative effects of social media (lack of self-worth, poor body image) and provides tools to think critically about hateful and hyper-sexualizing messaging.
- Confronts the normalization of non-consensual spreading of explicit images and sextortion, giving step-by-step instructions and guiding interactive activities to address image-based sexual abuse and sexual exploitation online.
Parents, Guardians, and Educators
Session walking adults through how to have meaningful conversations with their young people about what they are seeing online and how to stay safe.
- Addresses the link between social media content that hyper-sexualizes and commodifies kids and how their children see themselves and connect with others.
- Provides practical trust-building prompts to promote open conversation with young people
