Education for schools, caregivers, practitioners, and professionals

Designed for middle and high school students, this presentation helps students understand how common online abuse really is and builds their skills to navigate the digital world safely. Covers grooming tactics, red flags to look out for, how to protect themselves, what to do if abuse has already occurred, and how to identify safe adults who can help.

While our core focus is online sex abuse, the tools students learn also help them recognize and respond to cyberbullying and other forms of online harm.

Gives teachers, counselors, and school staff a deeper understanding of how perpetrators contact and groom children online, along with actionable tools to recognize red flags, respond appropriately, and support affected students. Designed to complement the student and caregiver sessions so every adult in a school community is aligned and informed.

Helps parents and guardians foster open, ongoing conversations about online safety at home. Covers how abusers typically make contact and build trust with victims, strategies for building resilience at home, and how to respond if a child has already experienced abuse or harmful contact online — all with an emphasis on connection over control.

Designed for the professionals who work directly with survivors, this session brings a clinical lens to the grooming tactics and online exploitation patterns SOSA sees in the field, along with considerations for trauma-informed care and guidance on supporting caregivers alongside survivors.

It also addresses what makes online abuse distinct from other forms of abuse, including why survivors so often delay recognizing what happened to them, and why downplaying or normalizing the abuse is such a common response.

Content draws on real casework from our undercover operations — giving practitioners a grounded, practice-ready understanding of what survivors have experienced and what they need from care.

Grooming tactics often evolve faster than tech companies and content moderation teams can keep up. Roo, SOSA’s founder, conducts trainings to help Trust & Safety teams implement the latest firsthand learnings about online abuse and exploitation into their detection models. By referencing actual cases, we’re able to identify when grooming starts and point to red flags that are more subtle than what many content moderation systems have been trained to detect.

Designed for university students studying criminal justice, law, sociology, or psychology, this session offers a firsthand look at online child exploitation from both an investigative and a survivor-centered perspective. Tailored to your class content, we cover how perpetrators operate online, how cases are investigated and prosecuted, and how our undercover work supports law enforcement.

For students focused on sociology or psychology, the session also addresses the unique experience of online sex abuse survivors and what makes this form of abuse distinct from other forms of trauma.

Students gain a realistic understanding of this work, whether they’re considering a career in law enforcement, victim advocacy, clinical practice, or policy.