@article{ref1,
title="Review of policies and practices to prevent technology-facilitated child sexual abuse within youth-serving organizations in the United States",
journal="Journal of child sexual abuse",
year="2024",
author="McCain, Jessica L. and Herbst, Jeffrey H. and Merrill-Francis, Molly and Willis, Leigh A. and Miedema, Stephanie Spaid and Shortt, Joann Wu",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Technology-facilitated child sexual abuse (TF-CSA), or child sexual abuse that occurs online or through electronic communication, is a preventable public health problem that can be addressed within youth-serving organizations (YSOs). This study is a review of a purposive sample of organizational policies and practices designed to prevent TF-CSA collected from 13 national and local YSOs in the United States. Documents were coded to identify practices to prevent TF-CSA related to YSO activities or YSO staff, volunteers, or participants. Qualitative analysis indicated that YSOs included seven common practices to prevent TF-CSA in their documents. These practices included transparent electronic communication between youth and YSO staff; codes of conduct and online behavior agreements related to youth; monitoring the YSO's online presence; parental controls for youth online activity; safety behaviors for online activity for staff, parents, and youth; parent and youth trainings for youth online engagement and prevention of TF-CSA; and practices to address staff policy violations. Most prevention practices documented by YSOs identified in this study are consistent with emerging literature on TF-CSA prevention. Key gaps include protections for youth from groups inequitably burdened by TF-CSA and evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of practices in preventing TF-CSA across settings and populations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8712",
doi="10.1080/10538712.2024.2381457",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2024.2381457"
}