Intervention reference
- Contact Disruption and Offender Management
- Crisis Response and Immediate Safety
- Digital Safety and Content Management
- Emotional Stabilization and Mental Health
- Functional Stabilization and Daily Support
- Legal, Reporting, and System Coordination
- Mental Health Intervention and Support
- Personal and Environmental Safety Planning
- Planning, Monitoring, and Reassessment
Contact Disruption and Offender Management
- cdom P1
- Where possible, establish caregiver-supported disruption of communication with offender
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Resources
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Notes
Parents should carefully consider how they will intervene once they discover that their child has had or is having concerning contact online. The circumstances will be unique to their child and should be treated as such. Outside support and guidance may be required to develop a plan to intervene and ensure that proper supports are in place for your child (e.g., law enforcement, Cybertip.ca, school).
- cdom P2
- Monitor for re-engagement attempts (including attempts facilitated via third parties, e.g. mutual acquaintance passing on a message)
- cdom P3
- Work with survivor/family to create a tailored disruption strategy to avoid escalation and support safe disengagement
- Write out considerations
- cdom P5
- Provide survivor disengagement scripts
- write out - discourage comms, but here are some ideas re: what to say
Crisis Response and Immediate Safety
- cris P1
- Assess for need of immediate crisis safety plan
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Resources
- cris P2
- Where possible, consider identifying emergency contact and response plan
- cris P4
- Assess for ability and need to caregivers or emergency supports
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- cris P5
- Identify safe locations and contingency plans
- **Can we tie these to risk profiles? different for sextortion to Jane Doe
- cris P6
- Assess geographic or proximity risk
- cris P7
- Ensure supervision and caregiver awareness
- Similar to above? repetative ?
- cris P8
- Ensure continuous supervision or support presence
- unsure of including this - come back to this
Digital Safety and Content Management
Victim focused
- dscm P1
- Implement device and account safety, review online presence, privacy settings
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Resources
- dscm P2
- Remove or minimize exposed personal information
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Resources
- dscm P3
- Convey identity protection strategies and options to the victim
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Resources
- dscm P4
- Explore and address any self monitoring
- dscm P5
- Provide truthful information about content removal process
- dscm P6
- Provide psychoeducation on content persistence
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Notes
Many survivors share concerns around continued sharing of content. It may be helpful to share with them that Project Arachnid will continue to search for the images, and send notices if anything is located. Provide hope and reassurance that there are technical and human structures in place that will always be searching. Should they start to receive any concerning messages or become aware of additional sharing, the door is open to reach out.
Content focused (immediate)
- dscm P7
- Initiate platform-based takedown requests using suites of content interventions available
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Resources
Content focused (ongoing)
- dscm P8
- Initiate ongoing monitoring for personal information
- dscm P9
- Establish content monitoring schedule and updates to reduce survivor burden of self-monitoring
- dscm P10
- Monitor for spikes/escalation in distribution
- dscm P11
- Track reappearance patterns
Emotional Stabilization and Mental Health
Category resources
- esmh P1
- Provide emotional stabilization strategies
- esmh P2
- Validate emotional experience
- esmh P3
- Validate trauma responses
- esmh P4
- Where appropriate, consider use of grounding techniques
- unsure of including this - come back to this
- esmh P5
- Reinforce absence of blame
Functional Stabilization and Daily Support
Short term
Resources
- fsds P1
- Reduce external demands (school or work accommodations)
- fsds P2
- Increase supervision and awareness
- who is this advise for?
- fsds P3
- Introduce structured check-ins
- who is this advise for?
Long term
- fsds P5
- Shift monitoring responsibility to systems
Legal, Reporting, and System Coordination
Category resources
Escalation consideration
- lrsc P1
- Preserve evidence (screenshots, URLs, chat logs)
- lrsc P2
- Assess need for law enforcement involvement and reporting options
- lrsc P3
- Assess need for child protection involvement and reporting options
Escalation
- lrsc P4
- Coordinate with law enforcement and/or child protection
- lrsc P5
- With survivor/family consent, coordinate with school or workplace
- lrsc P6
- Assist survivor/family to engage formal support systems (school or community)
Mental Health Intervention and Support
Category resources
Short term
- mhis P1
- Identify safe supports and reduce isolation
- mhis P2
- Engage caregiver or trusted adult
- mhis P4
- Increase intensity of support
- mhis P5
- Implement stabilization-focused care
Long term
- mhis P6
- Develop self-harm safety plan
- Need to write something here
- mhis P7
- Support/assist connection to mental health services
- mhis P8
- Develop communication strategy, including increasing frequency of follow-ups
- mhis P9
- With survivor consent, consider coordination with counselling providers
- Need to write something here about why - helping therapists to understand the impact of online harms
- mhis P10
- Strengthen support connections, ensuring accessibility during crisis
- mhis P12
- Ensure continuity of care
Personal and Environmental Safety Planning
Category resources
Short term
- pesp P1
- Conduct personal safety planning (home, school, work)
- pesp P2
- Define support roles in safety planning
- pesp P3
- Where possible, actively involve caregiver in safety planning
- pesp P4
- Develop logistics safety strategies (transport, routines)
- pesp P5
- Address environmental safety concerns
Long term
- pesp P6
- Name change considerations
- pesp P7
- Reduce predictability of routines
- pesp P8
- Plan for in-person avoidance strategies
- pesp P9
- Support navigation of social impacts
Planning, Monitoring, and Reassessment
- pmr P1
- Establish reassessment plan
- pmr P2
- Schedule follow-up to reassess contact
Reassessment
- pmr P3
- Re-evaluate risk of offline escalation
- pmr P4
- Adjust safety plan dynamically including factors such as support system engagement etc.
- pmr P5
- Reassess distribution and respond to instances