The Youth Internet Safety course for parents and CASA's is an essential program designed to help caregivers understand the digital landscape their children are navigating. This course provides parents and CASA's with practical tools and knowledge to ensure their children's online experiences are safe and positive. Topics include online exploitation of minors, identified tactics used by online offenders, recognizing indicators of juvenile online sexual victimization, and tips to safeguard our minors, as well as tools/resources for minors who have already been victimized. Parents and CASA's will also learn about the latest social media trends and potential online risks, equipping them to have informed discussions with their children about responsible internet use. By the end of the course, parents and CASA's will be empowered to create a secure and supportive online environment for their families.
About The Presenter
The Baltimore (BA) FBI Violence Crimes Against Children (VCAC) unit covers the entire state of Maryland and Delaware. The mission of the FBI's VCAC program is to:
Provide a rapid, proactive, and comprehensive ability to counter all threats of abuse and exploitation to children when those crimes fall under the authority of the FBI
Identify, locate, and recover child victims
Strengthen relationships between the FBI and federal, state, local, tribal, and international law enforcement partners to identify, prioritize, investigate, and deter individuals and criminal networks exploiting children
Our Investigative Priorities include:
Child abductions: the mysterious disappearance of a minor, especially a minor of tender years (12 or younger)
Contact offenses against children: production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), sextortion, domestic travel to engage in sexual activity with children, and international travel to engage in sexual activity with children
Sexual exploitation of children: online networks and enterprises manufacturing, trading, distributing, and/or selling CSAM
Trafficking of CSAM: distribution or possession
International parental kidnapping: wrongfully retaining a child outside the United States with the intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights
Other crimes against children violations within the FBI’s jurisdiction are investigated in accordance with available resources."