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Helpful tools for your daughter

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Keeping your daughter safe is most likely one of your top concerns. You can help keep your daughter safe by setting and enforcing rules and by teaching her about the dangers she may face. The resources in this section will help you learn more about the types of dangers your daughter may face, including youth gangs, dating violence, and Internet predators. Quizzes in this section can be a fun way for your daughter to learn about safety.

Featured articles

1. Know What Your Child is Doing on the Internet
2. Backpack Safety
3. School Violence and the News
4.  Teen Dating Violence Facts (Copyright © ABA) (PDF - 49KB)
5. Making sure Your Teen’s Job is Safe
6. Rules of the Road for Teen Drivers
7. What You Need to Know in an Emergency

Web sites

1. girlshealth.gov: Safety - We have created the girlshealth.gov section on safety to help adolescent girls learn more about some of the unique health issues and social situations they will encounter during the teen years. This section provides information, resources, and links to help your daughter learn more about safety.
2. Honor Our Voices (Copyright © Avon Foundation) – This online tool explores domestic violence through the eyes of children.
3. Kidz Privacy - Adults Only - This web site by the Federal Trade Commission offers important Internet privacy tips for parents and children. This links goes to the section for adults.
4. Teen Summer Jobs: Safety Pays - Summer is a time millions of teens work. Use this web site to get information on how to keep your teen safe while he or she is on the job.
5. The CyberTipline is a partnership between The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and state and local law enforcement in Internet Crimes against Children Task Forces. To report information about child pornography and the online enticement of children, parents can log on or call the Tipline at 1-800-843-5678.
6. School and Community Safety - This site from the National Education Association's Health Information Network provides support to teachers and parents who are working to help make public school safe for all children.

Publications

1. A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety – This online publication discusses how to protect your child from online predators.
   
   http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm
2. Dating Violence: Tips for Parents (Copyright © American Academy of Pediatrics) – As a parent, you can help your teenager build healthy relationship. This Web page helps parents recognize signs of unhealthy relationship behavior and gives tips on how to intervene.
   
   http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/teen/dating-sex/Pages/Dating-Violence-Tips-for-Parents.aspx
3.   Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Guide for Families (Copyright © Safe Start) – This guide explains how children of different ages may react to violence and gives advice on how to help a child exposed to violence.
   
   http://www.safestartcenter.org/pdf/caregiver.pdf
4. Parents: ABCs of Raising Safe and Healthy Kids – This site provides a list of ways to find what steps parents can take to keep their kids safe and healthy.
   
   http://www.cdc.gov/family/parentabc/index.htm
5. Safety on the Internet: A Guide for Parents (Copyright © Center for Young Women’s Health) – This guide introduces safety for parents of girls and links to information about the Internet, cyberbullying, Internet predators, social networking, and more.
   
   http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/internet_safety_parents.html
6. Talk to Teens About Healthy Relationships – This site discusses ways to talk to your kids and teens about healthy relationships.
   
   http://www.cdc.gov/Features/ChooseRespect/
7. Teaching Children Fire Safety – This publication encourages parents to teach children at an early age about the dangers of playing with fire in an effort to prevent child injuries, fire deaths, and fire-setting behavior in the future.
   
   http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/parents/curious.shtm
8. Teen Driving Agreement (Copyright © American Academy of Pediatrics) – You may want to set specific rules for your teenage driver. This form guides you and your teen in making a plan about driving.
   
   http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/teen/safety/pages/Teen-Driving-Agreement.aspx
9. When a Youth Is Victimized (Copyright © National Center for Victims of Crime) – We may not think about it, but people ages 12 to 24 suffer more violent crime than any other age group in the United States. This fact sheet has information for parents and other adults to recognize how youth react to crime, and how to help.
   
   http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/AGP.Net/Components/documentViewer/Download.aspxnz%3FDocumentID%3D46869
10. Young Workers: Parents – Do you have a child who works? This Web page has several ways that you can help protect your young worker.
    
    http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/teenworkers/parents.html

Organizations

1. Children's Safety Network
   
   http://www.childrenssafetynetwork.org/
2. Kids.gov
   
   http://kids.gov/
3. Love Our Children USA
   
   http://www.loveourchildrenusa.org/
4. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC
   
   http://www.cdc.gov/injury/
5. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
   
   http://www.missingkids.com/
6. National Education Association's Health Information Network
   
   http://www.neahin.org/
7. National Gang Center
   
   http://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/
8. National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline
   
   http://www.loveisrespect.org/
9. Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
   
   http://www.rainn.org/
10. Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere
    
    http://www.safeyouth.gov/Pages/Home.aspx
11. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
    
    http://www.cpsc.gov/

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Content last updated November 11, 2007

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