Navigating Online Harms: Knowledge Is Power®
Real Risks. Real Skills. Smarter Choices.

Digital harms evolve fast. Prevention education must evolve with them.

Our fully scripted, research-informed program complements general digital literacy with brief, targeted prevention lessons addressing specific, rapidly evolving online harms. Students learn to recognize risks, resist pressure, think critically, protect one another, seek help from trusted adults, and make smarter choices—without explicit, graphic, or traumatizing content.

Topics include dangerous online challenges; algorithms and persuasive design; AI companion chatbots; predators and grooming; gaming, including Roblox and Discord; gambling; sexting and digital permanence; disturbing content; cyberbullying; and other emerging harms.

The skills we teach transcend any platform, app, or trend.

→ Explore the Full Student Program: Real Risks. Real Skills. Smarter Choices.

“Is Today’s Digital World Destroying Health & Families?”

Today’s digital world is changing faster than most adults can keep up. We cut through the noise and focus on what adults need to know—and what they can do. This engaging workshop helps parents, caregivers, and professionals recognize online harms, spot warning signs, and guide kids through the challenges they face.

From social media, algorithms, gaming, and online predators to AI, sexting, dangerous challenges, and other emerging harms, we provide practical parenting tips and strategies adults can use at home.

Knowledge empowers adults, too.

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Protecting kids takes more than education. Erik’s Cause partners with organizations nationwide to turn awareness into action—amplifying emerging online harms, sharing critical resources, and advocating for meaningful legislative and policy changes that make the digital world safer for kids.

We bring together education, advocacy, and lived experience to help elevate the risks facing young people and push for real change.

Awareness starts the conversation. Advocacy moves it forward.

→ Explore ADVOCACY (Where Education Meets Action) to learn more.

→ Explore RESOURCES to learn more about our partnerships

Knowledge shouldn’t stop with what we teach. Our Resources bring together research, reports, advocacy organizations, and trusted information to help families, educators, professionals, and communities better understand online harms.

Whether you’re looking for recent research, exploring a specific risk, or digging into decades of work on dangerous challenges, we make it easier to find credible information and keep learning.

Knowledge is power. Keep digging!

→ Explore Our Resources

Online harms change as quickly as the digital world itself. Knowing what kids face—and what adults can do—is the first step toward keeping them safer.

Explore Online Harms including AI chatbots, cyberbullying, dangerous challenges, gaming, predators, sexting, violent content, and more. Then turn knowledge into action with Tips & Tools to help adults recognize warning signs, start important conversations, and guide kids toward safer choices.

Know the risks. Spot the signs. Take action.

→ Explore Understanding Online Harms