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Cyber Safety and Digital Wellness

eSafeKids

eSafeKids Online Safety & Digital Wellness services and resources focus on improving children's health, wellbeing and safety.

  • Online

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: eSafety

Product type: Posters; Fact sheets; Activity sheets; Student activities; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Whole school approach or initiative; Incursion, excursion or immersive experience

Contact details

eSafeKids
ABN: 98 152 329 707

https://www.esafekids.com.au/cyber-safety-digital-wellness

admin@esafekids.com.au

Focus areas

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

  • E-safety and digital literacy

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Technologies

  • Humanities and Social Science

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2)

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), Home-schooling, E-schools

Main beneficiaries: Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

eSafeKids aims to reduce harm and improve health, wellbeing, and safety by educating students, educators, parents, caregivers and professionals about online safety and digital wellbeing.

eSafeKids provides Cyber Safety and Digital Wellness workshops throughout metropolitan and regional Australia. These workshops can be delivered face-to-face in school, or online as a webinar. All workshops are delivered by eSafeKids Founder, Kayelene Kerr. Workshops are evidence-based, translating current research into easy-to-understand information. They are enriched with practical examples, strategies, conversation starters, and resources to support learning, all delivered without scare-tactics or fear-mongering.

Underpinned by a positive ethos and social and emotional literacy, programs focus on supporting children and young people to participate safely, positively and respectfully in the online places and spaces they spend time.

  • Technology's effect on developing bodies, brains and behaviour
  • Creating a Family Technology Plan
  • Supporting social, emotional and relational skill development
  • Nuances of 'Screen Time'
  • Managing 'time blindness', 'tech tantrums' and healthy boundaries
  • Persuasive Technology and Media Literacy
  • Social Media and Gaming
  • Age inappropriate, hurtful, harmful and illegal content, including sexualised media and pornography
  • Recognising and responding to tricky people and unsafe behaviours
  • Online Grooming, Catphishing, Sextortion, Youth Produced Sexual Content, and Image Based Abuse
  • Interpersonal conflict, peer relationships, managing emotions and digital reputation
  • Reducing barriers to help seeking

eSafeKids provides whole-of-school education with tailored, flexible delivery options and ongoing support. Services are available both face-to-face and online.

Costing vary by session type: Primary, Secondary, Parent, or Professional Development (2 hours to 2 days)

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support

Evidence

eSafeKids is endorsed by the eSafety Commissioner as a Trusted eSafety Provider and delivers high quality online safety education that aligns with eSafety's Best Practice Framework for Online Safety Education. Additionally, eSafeKids is a trusted Expert Cyber Educator for The Kids Research Institute of Australia. The program is informed by the eSafety Best Practice Framework for Online Safety Education, the CASEL Framework, the Health Promoting Schools Framework, International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education, and the United Nations General Comment No. 25.

The positive impact of the program is supported by testimonials from parents, professionals and students that can be found at https://www.esafekids.com.au/testimonials.