Many students struggle to manage their feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression. These mental health challenges can affect students’ behaviour and academic outcomes. Without proper monitoring and intervention, students can be left vulnerable to cyberbullying, violence, self-harm, and even suicide.

Student safeguarding is essential to their development and learning. Netsweeper’s onGuard solution provides tools to identify and quickly intervene when students are at risk.

On our most recent episode of Inside the Sweeps, Nick Finch from Co-op Academies Trust discusses the struggles their trusts was facing, and how Netsweeper’s onGuard safeguarding solution has helped them overcome them. 

Having an effective web filtering solution is an essential component when it comes to schools safeguarding strategies. If a filter does not meet all your needs, it can put students at risk for cyberbullying, accessing harmful content, violence, self-harm, and other serious threats.  

On our most recent episode of Inside the Sweeps we have Todd Mein and Jackie Carstens from Shiawassee Regional Education Service District speaking about their transition from a competitor to Netsweeper’s single web filtering solution, and how their experience with us has been so far. 

Today I sit down with Elisa Brewer-Singh from the WRSPC. We’ll discuss ways to identify those who may be at risk, invitations for help and how we can incorporate a variety of tools and resources, including technology, to raise awareness and create a community of support around those who may be struggling.

RESOURCES

Here 24/7: 1-844-437-3247  https://here247.ca/

Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 Text 45645 https://talksuicide.ca/

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 Text 686868 https://kidshelpphone.ca/

Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council: visit https://wrspc.ca/ 

BeThere.Org’s Five Golden Rules Framework Be There - Mental health support  

Feelings Wheel: https://wrspc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/feelings-wheel-flyer-handout-revised-8-inch-final-wrspc-apr-2018-curves.pdf

School Mental Health Ontario: https://smho-smso.ca/

Suicide and mental health awareness has been an increasingly hot topic over the past few years, even more so now in the grips of the pandemic. More time at home has meant more time online. While that has been a shelter for some providing entertainment, connection, and fun; for others it can be a downward spiral. The internet is often an unchecked place, where content following a harmful online search is far too readily available.

Alice Hendy joins Inside the Sweeps to discuss her personal story and R;pple Suicide Prevention, a charity created from her own family tragedy. With help from Netsweeper, Alice was able to launch the R;pple Tool which looks to reduce exposure to harmful online content relating to self-harm and suicide while also providing immediate support to those experiencing a mental health crisis.

Petition
https://bit.ly/3GEfByk

Links Mentioned
https://www.ripplesuicideprevention.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ripplesuicideprevention/
https://www.facebook.com/Ripplesuicideprevention
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-hendy-ripple-suicide-prevention-87a486202/
https://www.netsweeper.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/netsweeperinc/mycompany/
https://www.facebook.com/netsweeperinc
https://twitter.com/netsweeper 

Kimberly  from the DaretoCare organization joins the podcast to provide tips to educators and parents of how to successfully tackle bullying in schools(in-person or virtual) along with key information and insights into what bullying may look like.

DaretoCare's mantra is "No one (child or adult) should go to school and feel alone, unwelcome or afraid."

Resources Discussed
 Prevnet.ca (out of UBC)
kidshelpphone.ca 

Contact Kimberly to inquire about DaretoCare's learning virtual program.
Phone: 403.606.3038
Email: [email protected]

About DaretoCare
Dare to Care was founded in 1999 because of a need to address the pervasive and crippling issue of bullying that continues to affect children, youth, and adults to this day. Due to the lack of existing bully prevention resources available at that time, Dare to Care was the first comprehensive program launched in Canada to tackle the issue. Dare to Care was created with the understanding that bullying is a societal issue and that if we are to have any impact, all stakeholders within a school, community or workplace must be involved in creating a climate of change.

 

Mark Bentley  joins us on the podcast to discuss the importance of digital safeguarding for students and what LGfL is doing to help schools in the UK  enable cybersecurity and digital safeguarding.  Mark  also speaks about the new "Online Safety" Bill and the impact of that for digital safeguarding.

LGfL-The National Grid for Learning is a multi-award winning not-for-profit Charitable Trust, which aims to save schools money, keep children safe, tackle inequality, energise teaching and learning and enhance wellbeing. It is a founder member of the National Education Network and providers super-fast fiber connectivity for over 3,000 schools. It is a center of excellence for online safety, cybersecurity and provides support for special educational needs as well as a large online portfolio of online learning resources.

Visit LGfL Website


Links Mentioned
twitter.com/LGfLDigiSafe

safenewsletter.lgfl.net

undressed.lgfl.net

devices.lgfl.net

homeprotect.lgfl.net

fof.lgfl.net

BullyingCanada has been serving bullied Canadian youths and their families since 2006. BullyingCanada is the only national organization that resolves bullying situations for Canadian youth by directly facilitating communication between bullied kids, their tormentors, parents, teachers, school boards, social services, and, when necessary, police. 

Understanding the need for relief from bullying and cyberbullying worldwide, BullyingCanada has launched the BullyingInternational family of charities to bring its methodology and expertise to those in need.

Information on how to get involved can be found at www.BullyingCanada.ca, www.BullyingUSA.org, and www.BullyingInternational.org—or by calling (877) 352-4497 toll-free in North America.

In this episode, Umair Ahmed hosts Netsweeper's Craig Butler and Beki Fowkes from emPSN to discuss the partnership between the two organisations.


emPSN are a not-for-profit in the UK delivering broadband and IT service to schools and local governments across the East Midlands. emPSN have been working with Netsweeper to provide schools with safe and secure connectivity for the past 15 years and in this episode, Craig and Beki talk about how the two organisations continue to work together to achieve this.

If listeners would like to know more they can reach out to Rebecca Fowkes, Marketing & Communications lead at emPSN.

empSN Contact
Phone:01604 879869
Email: [email protected]
Website:  www.empsn.org.uk


Netsweeper Contact
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.netsweeper.com

Inside The Sweeps

Perry Roach joins me on the episode to discuss the important issues such as child exploitation and other illegal activities Netsweeper is trying to overcome to make the online world a safer place. 

Listen to learn about Netsweeper's company history, its mission today, and the goals for the near future.

View recent Toronto Star article written by Perry Roach

Perry's Email:    [email protected]                 
Netsweeper Website:   Netsweeper.com                   
Sales Contact:     [email protected]   

Host:  Umair Ahmed