Healthy Touch For Children and Youth

Healthy affection and touch is protective from child sexual abuse especially with parents, caregivers, and family members.

This training teaches you some guidelines for healthy touch and safe, respectful ways to interact with children. During the training, you will hear compelling stories from experts and survivors about being an active bystander. You will also:

• Receive some guidelines for healthy touch at home and in youth serving settings.
• Learn how to balance children’s needs for warmth and affection with safe, respectful ways of interacting.
• Learn about healthy sexual development in children so we can identify normal and abnormal touching behaviors.