Here at Internet 101, our motto is "police and partners . . . working together to web-proof our communities". Just as we teach our kids to safely navigate the streets of our cities, we need to do the same for the digital highway we call the Internet. A committee of police forces, led by the RCMP, created and maintains this website, a collection of safety tips, helpful presentations and links to further police-approved resources to help kids and parents surf safely.

http://www.internet101.ca/en/internetluring.php

Cybertip.ca is Canada's national tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. The tipline is owned and operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a charitable organization dedicated to the personal safety of all children.

Cybertip.ca accepts and addresses online and telephone reports from the public regarding:

• Child Pornography (images of child abuse)
• Online luring
• Child exploitation through prostitution
• Travelling to sexually exploit children

For more information on these incident types, please click here.

On average, Cybertip.ca receives over 700 reports and 800,000 hits to its website per month. All reports that are in contravention of the Criminal Code (Canada) are sent to police for possible investigation. As of January 2008, reports to the tipline had resulted in 43 arrests and the removal of 2,850 websites from the Internet.

The University of British Columbia School of Nursing
Vancouver, BC - 2008

Presents a Comprehensive Report on

Sexually Exploited Youth in British Columbia

On February 28^th, Bill C-2 received Royal Assent and legally raised the age of protection from 14 to 16 years. This day not only marked a historical step towards protecting our youth from adult sexual predators, but also a day of triumph for local political lobbyist, Lisa Brinkerhoff. 

Music video raising awareness of the sexual exploitation of children and youth. For more information, please contact the Onyx Program at onyx@plea.bc.ca. Or visit www.childrenofthestreet.com or www.safeonlineoutreach.com

Sexual exploitation can take many different forms, and you may be surprised to find out that it doesn’t always involve the exchange of sex for money. When we think of sexual exploitation we often think of things like prostitution and pornography, which are one part of sexual exploitation. It can also involve more understated things like the exchange of sexual favours for drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, food, a place to stay, or acceptance into a peer group. All of these practices can be demeaning, degrading, and often life-threatening to the youth who is involved.

Sexual exploitation of youth is against the law! In Canada, anyone under the age of 18 cannot consent to sell their body for sexual purposes. Sexual exploitation is a form of sexual abuse, and is never the fault of the young person involved.

• provides charitable institutional resources for the empowerment, education and recovery of former prostitutes, prostitutes and other sex trade workers;
• to provide, through charitable educational and counselling services, alternatives to prostitution and participation in the sexual trades;
• to solicit, collect, receive, acquire, hold and invest money and property, both real and personal, received by gift, contributing, bequest devised, or others; to sell and convert property, both real and personal, into cash; and to use the funds of this Society, in furtherance of the specific and primary purposes set forth above;
• to do all such things as may be necessary or conducive to the attainment of the aforesaid objects; and
• to operate exclusively for charitable purposes within Canada.

The Safe Online Outreach Society's purpose is to educate the public about exploitation on the internet by doing research, creating materials and delivering presentations and workshops that will train youth, professionals and parents on how to recognize and respond to online sexual exploitation and assist children and youth affected by this issue.