Family Online Safety Institute

Online safety is everyone’s concern - from preschoolers to grandparents. The Family Online Safety Institute brings a unique, international perspective to the potential risks, harms as well as the rewards of our online lives. FOSI’s 20+ members, from Amazon to Verizon represent the leading Internet and communications companies in the world. And our work encompasses public policy, industry best practice as well as good digital parenting.

NetSmartzKids

A Cablevision site built to aid parents and children in understanding what dangers are out there offering resources that enable them to learn more. This site details quite a bit of information that can be useful against cyber dangers.

Ask Parry! is a service where Parry Aftab, noted online safety and privacy expert, and Executive Director of WiredSafety.org can answer your questions about online safety, privacy and security, and help you with problems you encounter online. Anything from help finding a safe chat room for your teens, to knowing what to do if the item you bought at auction doesn't arrive as promised.

Visit Parry Aftab's website here.

McGruff Safe Kids

McGruff Safe Kids is a free site offers parents a way to protect their children from online danger. This tool is especially useful in allowing parents to track and monitor their child's use of computers.

It offers parents a way to decipher the lingo their children use on the computer, and it gives them the ability to block certain people from contacting their kids. Alerts can be sent to parents as soon as something unwanted is detected

Cyberbullying Research Center

The Cyberbullying Research Center provides an extensive array of information on cyberbullying. It includes many examples of actual instances and the resulting consequences if any. It also offers convenient links to archived live chats from reputable sites as well as links to facebook making it easy to keep on top of updated information.

It is also a great reference for information on the latest video games that have been linked, or could potentially become linked to bullying or violence.