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What we do

WiredSafety is dedicated to helping protect children in cyberspace. It does this by a combination of educational programs, awareness and prevention and one-to-one help delivered to its core audiences of parents, grandparents and caregivers, schools and community groups, law enforcement and school resource officers, as well as the children, tweens and teens themselves.

• By working in cooperation with law enforcement agencies worldwide in reporting and investigating cybercrimes against children and Internet sexual exploitation, WiredSafety is able to use the unique Internet security expertise of its specially-trained volunteers to help attack the root of the program – the criminals who prey on children.
• By educating parents, caregivers and schools on how to supervise children's use of interactive technologies and manage technology risks, WiredSafety is able to identify problems early and help guide families in safer and more responsible technology use.
• By providing children themselves with expertise in safe, secure and responsible interactive technology use, WiredSafety helps empowering them to use the "filter between their ears" and control the technology, instead of being controlled by it.

WiredSafety's mission is accomplished through a three-prong approach of one-to-one help, education and public awareness. Help is provided through live chat, instant-messaging, peer counseling of victims of cybercrime and abuse and e-mail reportlines.  Education is provided online and offline, using innovative educational technologies and methods. Special expert teams of teens and preteens are trained to develop and deliver unique peer educational programs, in WiredSafety's train the trainer Teenangels and Tweenangels programs. They are used to help provide insight into young peoples' use of technology and ways to improve security and privacy for all technology users. Awareness is provided on Internet sexual exploitation of children, responsible technology use (including anti-piracy) and risk-management in schools. It involves an exclusive partnership with Marvel Comics, using Spider-Man and other popular Marvel superheroes.

The audience for WiredSafety's programs includes parents and grandparents, law enforcement, schools and, most importantly, the children themselves. Its strategic partners include members of the Internet, communication, telecommunication and entertainment industries, as well as educational institutions and the law enforcement communities. Policymakers, legislators and regulators are important members of WiredSafety's support community as well.

But children cannot be fully protected unless they are taught the safe, secure and responsible use of all technology. Teaching them how to protect themselves is a crucial part of the solution. They must all be guided in the use of the "filter between their ears" whenever they use any interactive technologies, including mobile phone and text-messaging devices, interactive gaming devices, wireless and Internet. They need to learn to control the technology instead of being controlled by it. Our children must become good cybercitizens.

WiredSafety will help them, their community, family and schools accomplish that important goal.

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