Links and Resources

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Their mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation, help find missing children, and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families and the professionals who serve them.

Parry Aftab, The Privacy Lawyer

Parry Aftab is a US lawyer, child advocate and expert in all aspects of cyberlaw, best practices, cyberbullying and cyberharassment, cybercrime and privacy. MTV, Nickelodeon, Disney, Microsoft, AOL, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Webkinz, Facebook, myYearbook and others turn to her for advice.

WiredSafety.org

Provides help, information and education to internet and mobile device users of all ages. Helps victims of cyberabuse ranging from online fraud, cyberstalking and child safety, to hacking and malicious code attacks. Helps parents with issues, such as MySpace and cyberbullying.

Lingo2Word.com

Text messaging has become its own language. Kids know it... do you? Use this website to translate all of those funny-looking abbreviations and symbols into English. Be sure to look through the whole site... lots of good information there for those of us who are "text-challenged."

NetSmartz.org

An interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Expolited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America that uses age-appropriate 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the internet.