Recommended Websites

CyberAngels
www.cyberangels.org
When Curtis Sliwa founded The Guardian Angels in 1979, the safety risks facing New Yorkers were daunting and obvious. Yet today our children face even greater threats in the online world - insidious because they elude detection, making them difficult to avoid. In response to citizens' calls for assistance in dealing with online threats, the Guardian Angels launched CyberAngels in 1995.

Today CyberAngels is one of the oldest and most respected online safety education programs in the world.

Childnet International and Digizen
www.childnet.com
www.digizen.org
Childnet International is a London, England based non-profit whose mission is to work in partnership with others around the world to help make the Internet a great and safe place for children.
Digizen is a Childnet International project teaching digital online citizenship, in association with the DCSF and Becta. One of their many resources is a great online movie for teens about the impact of cyberbullying which can be found here www.digizen.org/cyberbullying/film.aspx

Family Online Safety Institute
www.fosi.org
The Family Online Safety Institute is an international, non-profit organization that facilitates the meeting of thought leaders in technology and policy in order to find innovative solutions for family online safety. The mission of the Family Online Safety Institute is to identify and promote best practices, tools, and methods in the field of online safety. ICRA (formerly the Internet Content Rating Association) is part of the FOSI, an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. The centrepiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often referred to as "the ICRA questionnaire." Content providers check which of the elements in the questionnaire are present or absent from their websites. This then generates a small file containing the labels that is then linked to the content on one or more domains.
Users, especially parents of young children, can then use filtering software to allow or disallow access to web sites based on the information declared in the label. A key point is that ICRA does not rate internet content - the content providers do that, using the ICRA labeling system. ICRA makes no value judgment about sites.
This website also features a great pdf called “Children’s Bill of Rights for the Internet” which can be found here: http://www.icra.org/_en/kids/billofrights/billofrights.pdf

GetNetWise
www.getnetwise.org
GetNetWise is a public service brought to you by Internet industry corporations and public interest organizations to help ensure that Internet users have safe, constructive, and educational or entertaining online experiences. The GetNetWise coalition wants Internet users to be just "one click away" from the resources they need to make informed decisions about their and their family's use of the Internet. GetNetWise is a project of the Internet Education Foundation.

Incredible Internet
www.incredibleinternet.com
NCMEC partnered with Qwest to create an educational site about Internet safety. IncredibleInternet.com was created with one goal in mind: To help people of all ages cut through the Internet's clutter to improve their everyday lives, while keeping families safe online. In addition to Internet safety information, they also have information on identity theft and links to educational websites.

Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
www.micac.da.ru
Minnesota ICAC works to educate parents and children to the dangers of predators on the Internet and to vigorously pursue those who would exploit children.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.missingkids.com
800-843-5678
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.

National Runaway Switchboard
www.1800runaway.org
800-RUN-AWAY
The National Runaway Switchboard maintains a 24 hour crisis line and other direct service resources for at-risk youth as well as providing runaway prevention curriculum materials.National Runaway Switchboard’s mission is to help keep America’s runaway and at-risk youth safe and off the streets.

Netsmartz, NS Teens, Netsmartz411
www.netsmartz.org
www.nsteens.org
netsmartz411.org
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) for children aged 5 to 17, parents, guardians, educators, and law enforcement that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.

Stop It Now!
www.stopitnow.com
888-PREVENT
Stop It Now!prevents the sexual abuse of children by mobilizing adults, families and communities to take actions that protect children before they are harmed.

Team HOPE
www.teamhope.org
866-305-HOPE
The mission of Team HOPE is to assist families with missing children by offering counsel, resources, empowerment and emotional support from a trained volunteer, who has had or still has a missing child. We enhance the already-proven skills of our volunteers and provide them with the tools they need to assist families with missing children.