Child Sexual Abuse Prevention

With the right resources and training, everyone who works with children and families can help prevent child sexual abuse and make safety a shared responsibility across organizations, communities, and systems.

Safe Kids Thrive

Free customizable planning tools and resources to help youth-serving organizations create sexual abuse prevention plans.

Safe Kids Thrive is a first-of-its-kind website that helps youth-serving organizations of all sizes develop and implement prevention-focused policies and programs that stop sexual abuse before it happens. With free customizable planning tools, online trainings, and learning modules, the site allows organizations to find relevant prevention resources for their specific needs.

Safe Kids Thrive was developed by the Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Advisory Council and is managed by the Children’s Trust.

Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Advisory Council

Members are experts in the field of prevention and provide guidance on community education, policy, research, and partnerships.

The Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Advisory Council is a multi-agency collaboration of nearly 30 public and private youth-serving agencies, offices, and organizations from across the Commonwealth. Their perspectives and areas of expertise combined to create a rich and comprehensive resource for youth-serving organizations of all sizes and missions.

The Council is co-chaired by the Children’s Trust and the Office of the Child Advocate.

Creating Safe School Environments

A how-to manual for educators guiding schools through the process of creating and sustaining safe environments for children. Now in its fourth edition.

Guiding schools and other youth-serving organizations through the process of creating and sustaining safe and proactive environments for children, the latest version includes:

• Current research on best practices in preventing child sexual abuse in school settings,
• Links to updated training resources and guidance documents, 
• Current DCF policies on mandated reporting, 
• An expanded section on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, 
• A new section on children and youth with Problematic Sexual Behavior (PSB), and 
• Links to free prevention resources and tools on the Safe Kids Thrive website.