'Safety in a Digital World' Parent and Carer Workshop

This event was funded by the Western Australian Association for Mental Health with the support of Lotterywest as part of Mental Health Week 2024.

This workshop is designed to provide strategies for parents and carers to support their child as they navigate the digital world, aiming to educate them on avoiding harmful online experiences, and how and where they can seek help should they need it.

Content overview:

• Overview of popular social media platforms, games and apps that kids are using
• Online grooming and catfishing
• Exposure to explicit content, including pornography
• Protecting personal information
• Sexting/nudes
• Technology assisted abuse
• How technology use impacts physical, mental and social health
• Parental controls
• Conversation starters and book recommendations

You will leave this webinar with practical strategies to help keep your children safe online.

WA Child Safety Services is endorsed as a Trusted eSafety Provider by the eSafety Commissioner.

This is a public event open to the whole community.