A look at what does and doesn't work in risk prevention from top researchers in the US By Anne Collier It being "National Internet Safety Month" and this being the last week of the month, let's look at Net safety from a different angle…. "Grumpy researcher has doubts about Internet safety programs." David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the … [Read more...] about What’s wrong with Net-safety ed … and what we can do about it
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From ‘Born This Way’ to Move This Way: A new foundation
Surrounded by some of the best thinkers and researchers in the bullying prevention, social media, and youth empowerment fields, Wednesday (2/29) I got to watch "Born This Way" become "Move This Way" for Lady Gaga, her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, and the movement they want to support and grow. "This is not a bullying prevention foundation," Gaga said, referring to the Born This Way Foundation … [Read more...] about From ‘Born This Way’ to Move This Way: A new foundation
Will the global village have a ‘911’?
This is an important next step for suicide prevention as well as social media. Facebook and the US's National Suicide Prevention Lifeline have just announced a partnership that links Facebook users expressing suicidal thoughts directly to live chat with a crisis counselor at the Lifeline. Before, and like other social-media services, Facebook would just send the distressed user the Lifeline's … [Read more...] about Will the global village have a ‘911’?