Sexual Exploitation of Children: Grooming, Abuse, and Protection
Sexual exploitation of children involves using a child for sexual purposes through abuse, grooming, images, sextortion, trafficking, payment, or other forms of exploitation.
Online Grooming: Digital Manipulation for Sexual Exploitation
Online grooming uses digital communication to build trust, secrecy, or dependence in order to sexually exploit, coerce, or manipulate another person.
Survivor-Centered Care: Choice, Safety, Dignity, and Autonomy
Survivor-centered care places a survivor’s safety, dignity, privacy, choices, and autonomy at the center of healthcare, advocacy, and support.
Trauma-Informed Care: Safety, Consent, Choice, and Autonomy
Trauma-informed care recognizes the effects of trauma and provides support through safety, choice, respect, informed consent, and reduced risk of retraumatization.
Bystander Intervention: Preventing Sexual Harm Through Safe Action
Bystander intervention means taking safe, appropriate action when witnessing possible harassment, coercion, sexual violence, or another harmful situation.
Mandatory Reporting: Abuse, Confidentiality, and Legal Duties
Mandatory reporting requires certain professionals to report specified suspected abuse or harm, which can create legal limits on confidentiality.
Rape Culture: Victim Blaming, Consent, and Sexual Violence
Rape culture describes social attitudes that normalize, excuse, minimize, or trivialize sexual violence while often shifting responsibility toward victims.
Victim Blaming: Sexual Violence, Consent, and Responsibility
Victim blaming shifts responsibility for abuse or sexual violence onto the person harmed instead of focusing on the actions of the person who caused it.
Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault: Consent, Drugs, and Incapacity
Drug-facilitated sexual assault occurs when alcohol or another substance contributes to a person being unable to give meaningful sexual consent.
Sexual Boundary Violation: Consent, Limits, and Sexual Autonomy
A sexual boundary violation occurs when someone crosses, pressures, or ignores another person’s limits involving sexual activity, touch, privacy, or communication.