WVSMA Alliance, Inc. Information

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The AMA Alliance web site address is found at  www.amaalliance.org.

INTERNET SAFETY For CHILDREN  RESOURCES:

"Faux Paw" - The Techno Cat - Adventures in the Internet.    Introducing the World's Most Powerful Internet Safety Force for Kids at www.ikeepsafe.org.
Click here for their first lesson. 

The AMA Alliance has a fact sheet available on their web site.  It states that "The Policy of the AMAA for Internet Safety for Chirlren and Youth is:  The AMA Alliance supports programs that help children grow into healthy adults and encourages its 41 state Alliances and 510 county Alliances in the United States to educate parents and yourth about the risks associated with online Internet services, and also the importance of parental supervision, personal safety, and common sense." - House of Delegates, June 2002.

Statistics:

• One in five U.S. adolescents who regularly log on to the Internet say they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation via the Web.  Soicitations were defined as requests to engage in sexual activities or sexual talk, or to give personal sexual information.
• One in four yourth have had an unwanted exposure in the past year to pictures of naked people or people having sex.
• About 25 percent of the youth who encountered a secual approach or solicitation told a parent.  Almost 40 percent of those reporting an unwanted exposure to sexual material told a parent.
  ------ From the Facts from the Alliance:  Internet Safety for Children and Yourth.  Their source, Online Victimization:  A Report on the Nation's Youth, National Center for MIssing and Exploited Children, June 2000.

The Fact Sheet also includes these sources for more information on Internet safety:

• www.getnetwise.org - a public service created by a coalition of Internet corporations and public interest organizations to help families have an educational, entertaining and safe online experience.
• www.americalinksup.org - a public awareness campaign supported by corporations, education associations and the U.S. Department of Education.
• www.ikeepsafe.org - a coalition of governors and/or first spouses, crime prevention organizations, law enforcement agencies, foundations and corporate sponsors that teaches children the importance of protecting eprsonal information and avoiding inappropriate sites on the Internet.

For more information check out the AMA Alliance Fact Sheet.

Another source:  NORTH CAROLINA ATTORNEY GENERAL  - Roy Cooper -  Watch an amazing video and learn facts and tips on internet safety at www.ncsbi.gov/icac/icac.jsp.

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