Sex Trafficking Awareness

Trigger Warning: this site contains potentially distressing information.

Caring adults and students within schools can promote a sense of student belonging, increase protective factors, help to reduce risk factors associated with sex trafficking and support early intervention through identification and appropriate response, including connecting impacted students to supportive services.

Resources

Students

Canadian Centre for Child Protection Agency

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is a national charity dedicated to the personal safety of all children. Our goal is to reduce the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, assist in the location of missing children, and prevent child victimization through a number of programs, services, and resources for Canadian families, educators, child-serving organizations, law enforcement, and other parties.

Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline

1-833-900-1010

KidsHelpPhone Human Trafficking Resources

Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7 e-mental health service offering free, confidential support to young people in English and French.

KPDSB Bullying Portal

Students have access to the KPDSB Bullying Portal and/or caring adult in the school to report concerns of human trafficking.

Mental Health In School Services

Students will be aware of how to access mental health supports in the event they are triggered by content and/or require mental health supports.

One Child

Child explotation resources for youth and adults.

The Trap

The human trafficking education tool, The Trap simulates being targeted and recruited by a sex trafficker. It is intended to raise awareness about sex trafficking among youth in middle and high school teaching them what the dangers are, how to avoid them and where to get help. The Trap is designed to be used as part of a facilitated discussion led by an adult. Facilitators must register with an email address

Parents & Guardians

Canadian Centre for Child Protection Agency

Parents/Guardians will have access to free online resources from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection Agency and other relevant information found on the Child Centre for Child Protection Tab of the KPDSB website

Human Trafficking Parents and Prevention

Durhan Region Parent/Caregiver Resource

KPDSB Bullying Portal

KPDSB Reporting Portal. Student resource to report occurences of bullying

KPDSB Website

KPDSB Website. Resources and information for students, staff and parents/caregivers

Teachers & Administration

Canadian Centre for Child Protection

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is a national charity dedicated to the personal safety of all children. Our goal is to reduce the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, assist in the location of missing children, and prevent child victimization through a number of programs, services, and resources for Canadian families, educators, child-serving organizations, law enforcement, and other parties.

Cybertip.ca

Canada’s tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. This is also operated by our agency and takes reports on 8 criminal code offences

Fourth R programming

Healthy Relationship Program and students

Healthy Relationships Skills, Self Awareness and Sense of Identity

Healthy relationships are at the core of developing and maintaining mentally healthy, equitable and caring learning environments. You can help students learn to understand and appreciate diverse perspectives and identities, to empathize with others, to listen, and to resolve conflict respectfully. Focusing on healthy relationship skills can benefit class culture and students’ sense of belonging.

Kids in the Know Program

Elementary specific program and High School online and offline personal safety – lessons delivered by educators or another school designate (mental health lead, counsellor, etc.)

KPDSB Bullying Portal

KPDSB Reporting Portal. Student resource to report occurrences of bullying

ONECA

ONECA is an organization comprised of First Nation Education Counsellors that was incorporated in 1985. The Ontario Native Education Counselling Association (ONECA) is founded upon principles that recognize that, although a variety of counselling and educational tools and programs exist in Ontario, the development of Native communities requires tools and programs designed specifically to improve Native Counselling and Education services.

Ontario VLE / Brightspace

Staff has access to digital resources, tools and experience/technology-enabled learning. Provides tools and interactive activities for students and supporting resources for educators.

OPHEA Always Changing Lesson Plans

Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities. Provides resources and lesson plans for educators

PROJECT ARACHNID

Project Arachnid is a tool to combat the growing proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the internet. The Project Arachnid platform was initially designed to crawl links on sites previously reported to Cybertip.ca that contained CSAM and detect where these images/videos are being made publicly available. Once child sexual abuse material is detected, a notice is sent to the provider hosting the content requesting its removal.

Restorative Practices

Restorative Practices is an emerging social science that studies how to strengthen relationships between individuals as well as social connections within communities.

SMHO Decision Support Tool

Decision Support Tool for Educators, checklist regarding student mental health awareness activities. Intended to be used prior to booking activities to ensure careful consideration and needs of students.

SMHO Decision Support Tool for Administrators

Careful consideration and planning needs to occur prior to involving students with lived personal experience.

Consultation with Administration, Board Safe and Supportive Administrator and Mental Health Lead should occur. Considerations related to the community and classroom climate need to be taken into consideration to ensure the conditions are set and students are prepped ahead of time related to presentation content. Students need to be provided with the opportunity to opt out of classroom presentations by those with personal experience.

SMHO Decision Support Tool for Classroom Educators

Careful consideration and planning needs to occur prior to involving students with lived personal experience.

Consultation with Administration, Board Safe and Supportive Administrator and Mental Health Lead should occur. Considerations related to the community and classroom climate need to be taken into consideration to ensure the conditions are set and students are prepped ahead of time related to presentation content. Students need to be provided with the opportunity to opt out of classroom presentations by those with personal experience.

SMHO Health and Physical Education Curriculum Mental Health Literacy Plans

The HPE lesson plans are designed to support the development of basic mental health literacy and social-emotional learning skills for grades 1-8.

SMHO TIER 1

TIERS for supporting student mental health. Tier one includes mental health promotion, universal, good for all supports and resources.

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Heath and Physical Education

Direct teaching of the Ontario Health and Physical Education curriculum by grade

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9-12: Health and Physical Education

Direct teaching of the Ontario Health and Physical Education curriculum by grade

What is Child Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking lesson plans

Recommendations, lesson plans, resoures and videos for educators related to child sexual exploitation

White Ribbon

Resoures related to child sexual exploitation. Working to end violence towards women and girls

Ontario College of Teachers Sexual Abuse Course

Online sexual abuse course. Requirement for all Ontario Teachers registered with the Ontario College of Teachers Assocation