Resources & Research

Resources and information to keep families, schools, child-serving organizations, and, most importantly, children safe.

Learn more about the prevalence of child sexual abuse, how it happens, disclosure, and supporting a child through disclosure.

Explore resources that discuss how to reduce risks to children in daily life, tips for discussing safety with children, and more.

Age-appropriate resources for staying safe while online.

Learn how to respond and report concerning behaviour and child sexual abuse.

Browse our personal and internet safety sheets, activity booklets, comic books, parent brochures, and more.

Behind each image, video, or other recording of child sexual abuse is a real child. In Canada, it is a criminal offence to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Each act of CSAM production – and the subsequent sharing production enables – is a violation of a child’s right to dignity, privacy, and protection from harm.

Step forward. Take a chance. You’re not alone. Reflections from the Phoenix 11 and Chicago Males on their experiences as public advocates for survivors of child sexual abuse material report draws on interviews with members of two survivor groups about the impact of their activist journeys for a community that has long been silenced.

Findings from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s (C3P) survey of parents of child sexual abuse material survivors shed new light on how this crime significantly impacts entire families.

Thousands of young men and boys have been targeted by financial sextortion crimes in 2022.

Dr. Hany Farid — co-creator of PhotoDNA — discusses his views on the proactive detection of CSAM, encryption, and the technology industry’s opportunity to prioritize platform-wide CSAM prevention.

C3P explores what the Tor browser is, how it works, how it is used, and how it leads to the distribution of CSAM.