Embracing Digital Youth (a program of Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use) promotes approaches that will best ensure all young people become “Cyber Savvy” and address youth risk in a positive and restorative manner. (We are just getting this new site up and going and there may be a few “bugs.”)

Issue Briefs & Reports

Embracing Digital Youth’s Reports and Issue Briefs provide educators, mental health professionals, law enforcement, and policy-makers with research-based insight and practical suggestions for prevention initiatives.

Webinars

Embracing Digital Youth offers interactive Webinars on current issues that feature leading researchers and professionals in the field.

Cyber Savvy Resources

This portion of the site provides instructional resources for teachers and higher education faculty related to Nancy Willard’s new book, Cyber Savvy: Embracing Digital Safety and Civility (Corwin Press).

Surveys & Research

Embracing Digital Youth is focusing on pioneering research

• The use of local surveys to that will identify the norms, practices, negative incidents, and risk and protective factors to be used for local planning, instruction, and evaluation.
• An approach to encourage witnesses to hurtful behavior to be Helpful Allies, called Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand.
• Effective Investigations and Interventions, a guide for school officials to assist their response to digital aggression situations.

Donate

You can help Embracing Digital Youth’s activities with a donation.