INFLUENCED Digital Safety Workshop

Join Our INFLUENCED Digital Safety Workshop!

Ready to boost your online safety knowledge? Our in-person Digital Safety Workshop is the perfect spot to learn all about staying safe in the digital world and how to manage parenting and guiding our youth through this. Whether you're a parent, grandparent, or a trusted guardian, we’ve got you covered with practical tips. Come hang out, ask questions, and leave feeling confident about your online safety management for the children in your life. Don’t miss out—let’s get digital, but safe!

Workshop Outline -

CHAPTER 1 : A WHOLE NEW WORLD This chapter will be a window into the role technology plays in the lives of teenagers. We’ll gain perspective on how very different this world is from the one in which parents grew up. We’ll begin conversations about technology use, with an aim to grow empathy toward the challenges and pressures teenagers face. A basic understanding of current apps and social media will be explored in an attempt to address potential knowledge gaps that can make parenting in this new landscape difficult to navigate.

CHAPTER 2 : DANGERS IN THEIR DIGITAL WORLD Seeking to promote understanding and greater compassion around teenagers’ desire to spend so much time online, this chapter builds parental awareness around the intersection of adolescent brain development and technology. By examining dangers present in their teens’ digital world, parents will be better equipped to keep their children safe from potential harms resulting from pornography, cyberbullying, sextortion, and online predation.

CHAPTER 3 : THE HEART OF THE MATTER In this chapter, we will examine the emotional impact teens experience as a result of their exposure to a torrent of explicit content. This will help us better understand their lived realities, equipping them to lead lives of integrity both online and offline. This chapter assists in recognizing and responding to signs of potential exploitation, acknowledging the accompanied lower sense of well-being expressed by victims of harmful activities online.

CHAPTER 4 : PRACTICAL TOOLS AND RESOURCES This chapter will offer information and practical tools to assist families in developing healthy relationships with technology while maintaining good boundaries and open lines of communication. It will enable parents to assess their teenagers’ level of vulnerability to internet dangers and will engage them in adopting appropriate safeguards to help keep their family safe.