Family Online Safety Conversation Guide
A practical guide for starting calm, ongoing conversations about privacy, boundaries, gaming, social media, and trusted adults.
8 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
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A practical guide for starting calm, ongoing conversations about privacy, boundaries, gaming, social media, and trusted adults.
8 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A calm response checklist for urgent online exploitation concerns, including reporting, evidence preservation, and support steps.
7 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A home checklist for account security, privacy settings, location sharing, app permissions, and phishing awareness.
6 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A practical checklist for safer profiles, direct messages, gaming chats, livestreams, and cross-platform contact.
6 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A planning guide for building online safety education into school culture, parent engagement, staff response, and prevention programming.
10 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A staff-facing guide for responding when a child discloses an online safety concern, threat, exploitation attempt, or image-sharing issue.
7 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A field-oriented checklist for recognizing, documenting, preserving, and escalating digital evidence without compromising integrity.
9 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A mobile-device preservation guide focused on lock state, network risk, power risk, documentation, and escalation to qualified examiners.
8 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A planning checklist for agencies assessing digital evidence training needs, policy gaps, role-based audiences, and partner coordination.
9 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A planning guide for identifying cloud/platform evidence, preservation needs, provider details, time zones, identifiers, and legal process questions.
8 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A plain-language primer on digital evidence integrity, authentication, chain of custody, metadata, expert testimony, and courtroom presentation.
9 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
A funder-facing brief explaining GOSET's two-track model, program logic, deliverables, funding priorities, and reporting plan.
7 min read | Reviewed April 23, 2026
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Official external resources
GOSET resources point visitors back to official reporting, prevention, cybersecurity, and digital evidence references when those sources are the right authority.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Report suspected child sexual exploitation online. Immediate danger should be reported to 911 or local police.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Age-appropriate online safety education videos, tip sheets, lesson materials, and presentations.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
A free service that can help limit the spread of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken before someone was 18.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI guidance on online risks, sextortion, open conversations, privacy settings, and reporting concerns.
Federal Trade Commission
FTC resources for parents and caregivers on children's online privacy and safety.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Public cybersecurity guidance on strong passwords, multifactor authentication, software updates, and phishing.
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program
Prevention best practices and school/youth-serving guidance developed by online child exploitation prevention experts.
National Institute of Justice
A starting point for agency policies and procedures for collecting, handling, and processing digital evidence.
National Institute of Justice
A law enforcement guide covering evidence assessment, acquisition, examination, documentation, and reporting.
National Institute of Justice
Guidance for law enforcement and prosecutors on digital evidence issues in court.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Guidelines on mobile device forensics, including preservation, acquisition, examination, analysis, and reporting.
Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence
Best practices for mobile device evidence collection, preservation, handling, and acquisition.
Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence
Best practices for acquisition, preservation, and analysis of digital evidence from cloud service providers.
U.S. Department of Justice
DOJ context on technology-facilitated crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children and the role of coordinated partnerships.
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These resources are educational materials and planning tools. They are not legal advice, clinical advice, emergency services, or a substitute for agency policy, school policy, or trained investigative support.
For immediate danger, call 911 or local police.
For suspected child sexual exploitation, use NCMEC's CyberTipline.
For agency investigations, follow law, policy, legal process, and qualified examiner guidance.
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