Back to School Safety Tips and Helpful Links

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and combatting online child sexual exploitation and abuse: Artificial intelligence (AI) provides the ability to produce exponentially more pictures and videos depicting child sexual abuse. Click the link below to learn more on what to look for and how to keep your child safe. Click Here

Financial Sextortion: When keeping your student safe, knowing what Financial Sextortion is, and how to report it is critical. Click the link below to learn more on what Financial Sextortion is an how to report. Click Here 

Mental Health Resources: If you or someone you know is struggling with a mental health concern, resources are available to help. Click Here to see resources you can access 24/7/365. 

Bullying - This is a helpful link to the StopBullying.gov website which is a very informative site that gives parents information about what is bullying, what are the warning signs of bullying, and what to do if your child was bullied, as well as wealth of additional information around bullying. Click here

Growing Up Drug Free: (A Parents Guide to Substance Use and Prevention) - Parenting can be the greatest job on earth—and the toughest. You want your children to be healthy, but you worry about what they will do when faced with the decision to try drugs. The link below give you access to a guide that offers information that can help you raise children who understand the risks of substance use.

          This guide includes:

          • An overview of substance use among children, youth, and young adults;

          • Descriptions of some substances young people may use;

          • A look at risk factors—including social media usage—that may influence children, youth, and young adults to try drugs, and protective factors that help reduce those risks;

          • Suggestions for how to talk to young people about drugs, tailored to their age group; and

          • Tips on what to do if you think your child is using drugs. 

          Click here to access the Guide

Firearm Safety Storage Perceptions and Reality - Below you will find links to two resources that discuss common concerns and perceptions about firearms. If you would like additional information please visit our web page called Gun Violence Prevention and it will lead you additional statewide information and resources.  Click here for Firearm safe storage ideas.  Click here for information about firearm concerns, perceptions and reality.