{"id":2064,"date":"2009-07-30T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2009\/07\/30\/help_me_find_in.html"},"modified":"2010-05-20T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:08:00","slug":"help_me_find_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2009\/07\/30\/help_me_find_in.html","title":{"rendered":"help me find innovative practitioners who address online safety issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need your help. One of our central conclusions in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/pubrelease\/isttf\/\">Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report<\/a> was that many of the online safety issues require the collective engagement of a whole variety of different groups, including educators, social workers, psychologists, mental health experts, law enforcement, etc.  Through my work on online safety, I&#8217;ve met a lot of consultants, activists, and online safety experts. Through my work as a researcher, I&#8217;ve met a lot of practitioners who are trying to engage youth about these issues through outright fear that isn&#8217;t grounded in anything other than myth.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t met a lot of people who are on the ground with youth dealing with the messiness of addressing online safety issues from a realistic point of view.  I don&#8217;t know a lot of practitioners who are developing innovative ways of educating and supporting at-risk youth because they have to in their practices. I need your help to identify these people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>I want to know teachers.<\/b>  Who are the teachers who are trying to integrate online safety issues into their classroom by using a realistic model of youth risk?\n<li><b>I want to know school administrators.<\/b> Who are the school administrators who are trying to build school policy that addresses online safety issues from a non-fear-driven approach?\n<li><b>I want to know law enforcement officers.<\/b> Who are the law enforcement officers who are directly dealing with the crimes that occur?\n<li><b>I want to know people from social services.<\/b> Who are the people in social services (like social workers) who are directly working with at-risk youth who engage in risky behavior online?\n<li><b>I want to know mental health practitioners.<\/b> Who are the psychologists and mental health practitioners who are trying to help youth who engage in risky practices online? Or who help youth involved in self-harm deal with their engagement with self-harm websites?\n<li><b>I want to know youth ministers.<\/b> Who are the youth pastors and ministers who are trying to help at-risk youth navigate risky situations?\n<li><b>I want to know other youth-focused practitioners.<\/b> Who else is out there working with youth who is incorporating online safety issues into their practice?\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that there are a lot of people out there who are speaking about what these partitioners should do, who are advising these practitioners, or who are trying to build curricula\/tools to support these practitioners, but I want to learn more about the innovative practitioners themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Please&#8230; who&#8217;s incorporating sensible online safety approaches into their daily practice with youth in the classrooms, in therapy, in social work, in religious advising, etc.? Who&#8217;s out there trying to wade through the myths, get a realistic portrait, and approach youth from a grounded point of view in order to directly help them, not as a safety expert but as someone who works with youth because of their professional role?  Who do I need to know?<\/p>\n<p><i>(Feel free to leave a comment or email me at zephoria [at] zephoria [dot] org.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need your help. 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