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Important
Links - Kids Safe
http://www.webwisekids.org
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Web Wise Kids?was born from harrowing personal experience.
The 14-year old sister of the founders disappeared for four months after
going off to meet a man she had been chatting with online.
From this "wake-up call" sprang a desire to help other families protect
themselves. Initial programs included the Web Wise Kids?web site, and
parent-teacher presentations in Southern California schools.
CyberLawEnforcement.org
Category: Kid Safe
Description: is a network of law enforcement officers, who specialize
in cybercrime investigation, training other law enforcement officers and
assist cybercrime victims online.
Their tipline handles child pornography, cyberstalking and missing children
tips, as well as tips of cyberscams and fraud online.
The Cyber Law Enforcement Organization also includes the Legal Eagles
group of prosecutors, defense counsel and legal experts in the field of
cybercrime, to help educate and guide the Internet community on crime
prevention and reporting of cybercrimes.
Children
Now
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Children Now is a nonpartisan, independent voice for America's
children. Using innovative research and communications strategies, Children
Now promotes pioneering solutions to problems facing America's children.
Recognized nationally for its policy expertise, up-to-date information
about the status of children, and leading work with the media, Children
Now focuses particular attention on the needs of children who are poor
or at risk while working to improve conditions for all children by making
them a top priority across the nation
Talking
with Kids About Tough Issues
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
is a national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation
to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often
about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol, and drug abuse.
Yahooligans
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Yahoo's web guide for children.
Parental
Controls/Internet Safety Filters
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The PEP Directory provides a comprehensive listing of parental
control, blocking and filtering software programs to help make the Internet
a child-safe experience. This listing does not necessarily imply endorsement
of a product or company.
The
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Category: Kid Safe
Description: NCMEC was created in 1984 as a public-private partnership
and serves as the national clearinghouse for information on missing children
and the prevention of child victimization. NCMEC works in partnership
with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice. NCMEC's
state-of-the-art Web site at www.missingkids.com brings images and
information about missing children, as well as a wealth of child protection
information, to a global audience.
Tolerance.org
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The mission of Tolerance.org is to create a national community
committed to human rights. Its goal is to awaken people of all ages to
the problem of hate and intolerance, to equip them with the best tolerance
ideas and to prompt them to act in their homes, schools, businesses and
communities.
Tolerance.org is a Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a national
non-profit civil rights organization that promotes tolerance and diversity
and combats hate and discrimination through education, investigation and
litigation.
Combating
Hate
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The Anti-Defematin League has published a resource guide
to combating hate sites on the web. The mission of the ADL is "To stop
the defamation of the Jewish people and
to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike."
Poisoning
the Web: Hatred Online
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Poisoning the Web: Hatred Online
Internet Bigotry, Extremism and Violence
This site produced by the Anti-Defemation League provides a database of
hate and violence sites on the web.
Surf
Monkey com.
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The SurfMonkey Browser?makes Web surfing easier and more
fun for kids, while the built-in safety service helps protect them from
inappropriate content and contact with strangers on the Internet.
The browser also comes with the CyberFriend Communicator, which lets kids
exchange email, create bulletin boards, send instant messages and chat
with parent-approved friends and, in some cases, friends of those friends.
The Communicator even includes a CyberFriend VideoPhone, so kids can see
and hear their friends on the computer. And the safety service lets parents
decide which features their kids can use and how often.
Disney
CyberNetiquette Comix
Category: Kid Safe
Description:
Welcome to CyberNetiquette Comix, an entertaining, interactive way for
families to learn valuable lessons about online safety. Join classic Disney
characters for adventure, fun, and online awareness tips. We encourage
parents and children to enjoy and discuss these interactive fables together.
Walt
Disney Surfswell
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Disney has created a fun interactive cartoon and quiz that
teaches children how to surf safely on the Internet
Safety
Ed International
Category: Kid Safe
Description: We advise parents, teachers, schools and libraries about
safety issues for kids when going online. We also are committed to educating
children and teens realistically and positively about internet technology
and safe use. You can find helpful websites here, or you can attend our
online classes which run every week!
Families
Connect
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Families Connect is a website created for parents and children
to use together. It offers families (parents, kids, grandfathers, aunts,
cousins - everyone) an opportunity to learn about the Internet and use
it together. They offer freee Internet classes for the whole family to
learn together
Parent's
Online Resource Center
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The Children's Partnership has published a very useful online
Parent's resource Center on all aspects of the Internet. Click on "Parents
Online"
Parent's
Guide to the Information Superhighway
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The Children's Partnership has published a very useful online
guide to the Internet and Child safety issues for parents
Finding
Missing Kids Online
Category: Kid Safe
Description: An article published by the LA Times that provides links
to law enforcement and other agencies that help parents find missing children
Family
Safe Internet Use Agreement
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Cyberangels offers a family contract on safe internet usage.
You can download it and print for your own family to use.
Choosing
Web Site Filters
Category: Kid Safe
Description: A very informative article from Cyberangels.org comparing
the features of different web filters designed to screen out hate, violence,
and pornography web sites
Protecting
Your Children from Molesters in Cyberspace
Category: Kid Safe
Description: A very important article written by Parry Aftab, Founder
of Cyberangels on how to protect your children from sexual predators in
cyberspace.
Get
Netwise. org
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The Internet offers kids many opportunities for learning,
constructive entertainment, and personal growth. At the same time, parents
are concerned about the risks kids face online. The challenge for parents
is to educate themselves and their children about how to use the Internet
safely. GetNetWise can help.
Kids
Privacy org.
Category: Kid Safe
Description: The World Wide Web fascinates children. They are naturally
drawn to the glitzy graphics, animated characters, games, contests, the
latest about their favorite singers and TV stars featured on many Web
sites. But behind most of these colorful online playgrounds is a very
serious business purpose, to sell and market a vast array of services
and products to children ?toys, TV shows and movies, new CDs, breakfast
cereals, after-school snacks. To target children more effectively, commercial
Web sites often collect personal, private information from children such
as full names, home and e-mail addresses, hobbies, information about parents,
favorite music, even a pet’s name. Given children’s natural curiosity
and trustful nature they can easily give out personal information, without
even realizing it
Children's
Partnership org.
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Children and Technology: Overview
The emerging information society will profoundly affect how the nation's
children learn, play, communicate and prepare for the future. Since 1994,
The Children's Partnership has been in the forefront of defining the interests
of children in the digital age and advocating for effective solutions.
The issues of quality and safety of the new digital media for children
and equal access for all children are the focus for The Children's Partnership.
TCP has defined a major initiative to advance a children's agenda and
ensure that the building momentum will yield tangible benefits for children.
Elements include research and publishing, coalition-building and public
awareness, writing consumer and parent guides, and building local partnerships
which demonstrate the power of community-based technology
Cyber
Angels
Category: Kid Safe
Description: Cyberangels, a 501(c)(3) program, is the largest online safety,
education and help group in the world. We are a cyber-neighborhood watch
and operate worldwide in cyberspace through our more than 3,000 volunteers
from more than fourteen countries. (Cyberangels is run entirely by volunteers.)
Our special volunteers patrol the internet looking for child pornography,
child molesters and cyberstalkers. We also offer a wide variety of educational
and help services to the internet community at large. Other Cyberangels
find and review family-friendly websites, filter software products and
Internet services. Our Teenangels, CyberMoms and CyberDads volunteer to
speak at local community groups and schools around the country teaching
Internet safety. Our Cyber-911 helpline gives netizens access to help
when they need it online. We are proud of our reputation as the one-stop-shop
for all cyberspace safety, privacy and help needs.
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