6/25/17

What You Dont

Know May Hurt
Your Students!

Stacy Pendarvis, Program Director

Joni Shook, Program Outreach
Manager

Monique Burr Foundation for

Children

Objectives
Review recent data on indicators and causes of abuse,
bullying, cyberbullying, and digital dangers.

Understand polyvictimization research and its implications

for prevention education.

Discuss strategies to effectively prevent and respond to

these dangers.

Every child deserves to be safe!

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Why Do We Need
Prevention Education?

Why Do We Need Prevention Education?

1 in 4 kids will be bullied, and

60% of bullies in grades 6-9 have
1 in 5 will be cyberbullied.
a criminal conviction by age 24.

1 in 10 children will be sexually 13% of 2nd and 3rd grade students

abused before they turn 18. report that they used the Internet to
talk to people they dont know.

The U.S. receives over 3 million

reports of child abuse each According to a Symantec study, the
year and costs U.S. taxpayers 4th most frequently searched term
$220 million DAILY. by kids 7 and under is porn.

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CT scan of brain from a normal three year old child, and from a three
year old child suffering from extreme neglect.

Source: http://www.lfcc.on.ca/mccain/perry.pdf

Why Do We Need Prevention Education?

Intimate partner violence has the greatest impact of all forms of
violence.

- 1 in 5 have experience physical abuse

- 1 in 3 knows a peer who has been physically abused
- 1 in 4 is pressured for sex
- 1 in 4 have experienced verbal abuse
- 1 in 3 have experienced controlling behaviors
- 1 in 4 is isolated by a partner
- 1 in 5 have had a partner who threatened violence of self-
harm if break up

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Why Do We Need Prevention Education?

1 in 3 teens consider the Internet as important as air, water, food

and shelter. With this knowledge, we must teach kids empathy
and help them develop critical skills for making kind, smart, and
safe decisions about online behavior.

63% of kids are hiding what they do online from their parents.

55% of kids are online when their parents think they are sleeping.

1 in 3 teen girls has met people offline after becoming online

friends.

How Much Do You Know?

IDK BRB

Code 9 GNOC

NSAS Kicker

F2F KPC

LMIRL NAZ

GYPO GKY

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Digital Reputation
According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, EVERY SECOND:
4,000 pictures are uploaded to Facebook
700 pictures are uploaded to Instagram
4,600 snaps are sent
5,700 tweets are posted
66,000 people search using Google
60 users pin to Pinterest
100 minutes of video is uploaded to YouTube
5 gigabytes of data are uploaded to Facebook

*For the record, girls post and tag

twice as many photos as Boys.

What are the implications of this?

Digital Reputation

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Adverse Childhood Experiences

Intimate Partner Violence

(IPV)
Substance Abuse
Parental Abandonment
Parental Incarceration
Maltreatment
Neglect
Child Sexual Abuse
Exploitation

The ACE Study

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Why Do ACES Matter?

Prevention Best Practices

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Prevention Best Practices

What does research support?

What statute and policy requirements exist?
What guidelines are available to inform practice?

What does research support?

Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention

Protective and risk factors

Bystander Intervention

Parent Education; Early childhood Intervention; Home-based

visitation; Relationship Building/Mentoring

School-based prevention education

Comprehensive programs targeting adults and children

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Why Use a School-Based Program?

Schools are a well-established venue for delivering prevention
messages; they have access to nearly the entire universe of
children and families. (Finkelhor)

Prevention programs can improve test scores, Grade Point

Averages, lower drop out rates, and improve overall school safety
and climate.

Academic achievement is improved with consistent use of

prevention/safety programs.

School-Based Prevention

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School-Based Prevention

School-Based Prevention

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Polyvictimization

Polyvictimization

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Prevention Best Practices

What does research support?
What statute and policy requirements exist?
What guidelines are available to inform practice?

Statute & Policy Requirements

Erins Law

Child abuse prevention statutes

Bullying and cyberbullying statutes

Health instruction statutes in schools

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Prevention Best Practices

What does research support?

What statute and policy requirements exist?
What guidelines are available to inform practice?

NCMEC Guidelines

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CDC Guidelines

National Plan to Prevent CSA&E

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Promising Programs

What Schools Can Do

Needs assessment

Awareness campaigns

Adult-focused prevention efforts

Child-focused prevention programs

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Barriers to Prevention

Schools and/or organizations have limited resources

School emphasis on testing/limited classroom time

Support from administrators/teachers is limited

Support from parents is limited

Support from communities is limited

Support from leaders and legislators is limited

MBF Child Safety Matters - Elementary School Edition

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Facilitator Feedback
One kindergarten student hugged me after a lesson and said,
Im so glad that I can also come to you as my Safe Adult.
It is every adults responsibility to make sure that children learn this
material so that they can grow up safe.
After the lessons, a student who is new to our school and has
had severe behavior problems opened up a great deal about
abuse he had experienced before coming to our school. You
could just see the relief on his face.
I had a student in first grade who shared that she decided to
Make a Move when a man drove up to her house and tried to
talk to her while she played outside. She went inside to Talk It Up
with her parents.
One student said, I remembered rule #5, No Blame | No
Shame and found the courage to tell an adult.
Every child counts and this program has save lives and it works.

Additional Resources

www.mbfchildsafetymatters.org

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Additional Resources
Use MBFs resources to educate your
Download the MBF Child
school and community about topics Safety Matters app with useful
regarding child safety and information on how to keep kids
prevention. Advocate for the MBF safe. Available at no cost from
Child Safety Matters program with the App Store or Google Play.
your network of contacts and
Share with parents and others.
connect with MBF on Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Questions?
Thank you for helping us protect children!

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Contact Us

Joni Shook, Program Outreach Manager

EMAIL jshook@moniqueburrfoundation.org
Stacy Pendarvis, Program Director
spendarvis@moniqueburrfoundation.org

WEBSITE www.mbfchildsafetymatters.org

PHONE 904-642-0210

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