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On Online Safety for Children

TechMission Safe Familiessafefamilies.techmission.org

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Books on Online Safety, Pornography, and Recovery

On online safety for children.

The Parent’s Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace
by Dr. Parry Aftab

This no-nonsense guide for keeping kids protected and informed on the Internet is an essential book for any family with a home computer.

Kids Online by Donna Rice Hughes

This is a powerful tool for parents to safeguard their children’s safety while using the Internet. Offers hope and help to parents with simple step-by-step directions.

Youth, Pornography and the Internet
by National Research Council

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How Pornography Harms Children

(Excerpted in part from Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace by Donna Rice Hughes. ©Copyright 2001 Donna Rice Hughes. Request permission (protectkids.com/permission.htm) if you wish to reprint or post.)

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Safety Rules for Parents and Guardians

Safety Steps and Rules for Online Safety for Parents to Protect their Children

  1. Install an Internet filter (see our Internet filtering reviews and recommendations). If the software allows for different settings for each user, we recommend blocking all chat rooms for children under 16. We also strongly recommend blocking file sharing programs like Kazaa, Limewire, and BearShare completely.

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Internet Filter and Parental Control Software Reviews

Internet Filter and Parental Control Software Reviews

Free TechMission Safe Families We-Blocker Internet Filtering and Parental Controls Software

TechMission provides free Internet Filtering Software and Parental Controls to help protect children online. You can download the software by entering your E-mail address below.

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About the Safe Families Program

Safe Families is a program of TechMission, Inc. that was formed to assist parents in protecting their children from pornography and other dangers on the Internet. TechMission started in 2000 with its first program, the Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4) with the goal addressing the digital divide, which is the gap between those who have access and training with computers and those without. AC4 is the largest association of faith-based community computer centers in the world with over 500 member serving over 50,000 individuals each year.

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What People are Saying about Safe Families

What People Are Saying About Safe Families

-unsolicited email
God really spoke to me through your submission in [a ministry partner's] newsletter.... [I] see a lot of similarities between your story and where mine is/has been. Thank for your witness.

--from ministry partners
...wanted to tell you that I read your article....you were so transparent and brought so much encouragement and hope to those who are going through this. Thanks for your efforts for all of us out here still dealing with it.
Your presentation material is absolutely, hands down, the BEST I have ever seen. Right on the money, Bil. You are doing important work and you are doing a great job - bless you, man.

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Safe Families Press Kit

Press Kit

Current Press Release

Black Pastors Call for an End to Online Slumlords and Applaud MySpace Parental Notification

Black pastors from across the country are calling for an end to online slumlords. Bil Mooney-McCoy, a Black pastor and Director of the SafeFamilies program explained the issue, “Urban communities are always the first to be preyed upon. When social networking sites create an online community without adequate concern with safety, they are the online equivalent of slumlords. Slumlords make a profit while fostering unsafe communities that become a haven for drugs, gangs and perpetrators; online slumlords create online communities that are havens for perpetrators.”

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Story of Recovery

My Story

I don't really know when it began. Or even why.

I was brought up in a wonderful Christian home with two parents who fully imparted God's love to me, and nurtured in the faith by an excellent Bible-believing church. I came to know and love Jesus in a very authentic relationship in early childhood.

I didn't struggle with most of the temptations urban teenagers encounter: drugs, alcohol, cheating at school, fighting, stealing. I had a superego the size of a Wal-Mart. Yet, sexual fantasy was a challenge for me, a source of incredible guilt and torment. Fortunately, through high school, I had limited exposure to explicit material.

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Volunteer Opportunities: Online Safety

Title Organization Name City, State/Country
opportunities in kenya orphans center BARAKA CHILDREN FAMILY
MATUU
Kenya
5-Day Mission Trip Words To Works Ministries
Jacksonville, FL
United States
7-Day Mission Trip Words To Works Ministries
Jacksonville, FL
United States
Managua, Nicaragua Short Term Mission Forward Edge International
Managua
Nicaragua
General volunteer posistions Project O
Durban
South Africa
Social worker ROHI FOUNDATION
BAMENDA
Cameroon
COMPUTER TEACHER ROHI FOUNDATION
BAMENDA
Cameroon
Bible Teacher for children ROHI FOUNDATION
BAMENDA
Cameroon
Bible Teacher for children ROHI FOUNDATION
BAMENDA
Cameroon
Short Term Mission Trip Participants Visiting Orphans
Brentwood, TN
United States
Title Organization Name
Member Recruiter (1 hour per week) Disabled Chamber of Commerce
Web Quality Control - Development City Union Mission
News Letter Intern Freedom House Ministries
Web 2.0 Tech Specialist World Relief
Development Project Manager Appleseed Ministry Group
Vocational Skills Development for People with Disabilities Goodness And Mercy Missions
Workout A sponsorship Program for Needy Children, Cameroon Goodness And Mercy Missions
Vocational Skills Development for People with Disabilities Goodness And Mercy Missions
Event Planner House of Hope Portland
Facilitator Disciples of Love Ministries
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Organizations: Online Safety