This resource overviews definitions, risk factors, statistics, and practical guidance for parents and caregivers.
Learn questions parents and caregivers can ask youth-serving organizations to better understand their safety practices.
This booklet gives parents a brief guide to recognizing manipulation and practical ways to keep kids safe.
Learn tips for talking with your child about normal and healthy sexual development.
This resource gives an age-by-age overview of healthy sexual development from birth through the teen years.
This resource gives guidance for parents and caregivers with kids aged birth to 2 years on nurturing body awareness, boundaries, and positive early learning.
This resource outlines healthy sexual development for kids ages 3 to 5 years. It gives guidance for parents and caregivers on teaching body awareness, privacy, boundaries, and age-appropriate communication.
This resource outlines healthy sexual development for kids ages 6 to 8 years. It gives guidance for parents and caregivers on teaching privacy, boundaries, and age-appropriate information about puberty and sexuality.
This resource outlines healthy sexual development for kids ages 9 to 12 years. It gives guidance for parents and caregivers to support learning about puberty, relationships, consent, and sexual health.
This resource outlines healthy sexual development for kids ages 13 to 17 years. It gives guidance to parents and caregivers for helping teens navigate relationships, identity, sexual health, and increasing independence.
Learn common words used when talking about child sexual development.
Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin builds community resources, provides training and public awareness, and conducts advocacy activities to strengthen child abuse prevention efforts in Wisconsin.
This resource explains how wrongly linking LGBTQ+ communities to abusive behaviors harms both child sexual abuse prevention efforts and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Darkness to Light offers evidence-informed education and training to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.
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This review of child sexual abuse prevention curricula helps schools and organizations choose an effective instructional program for students.
This one-pager outlines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 6 core concepts for preventing child sexual abuse in youth serving organizations.
Our goal is always to prevent abuse before it happens.