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Ideally, all children/youth should receive training and education on issues of personal safety and abuse prevention. Personal safety and child sexual abuse prevention training should be age-appropriate to promote child/youth understanding of—and confidence in—your organization’s strategies to keep them safe. Both the Child Welfare Information Gateway and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center have resources available to help you select and evaluate available training programs.
If it’s within the scope of your responsibilities to provide training for children and youth, here are some best practices to incorporate as you build your curriculum:
Programs are successful when they are based on the most current research in prevention education, which tells us that effective programs should:
An effective curriculum:
An effectively presented child safety instruction program:
For more information on abuse prevention curricula for your organization, you can review these resources and reports that have been evaluated for effectiveness.
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