How to Have an Honest Conversation with Youth

Are you a parent, caregiver, or an adult who works with or serves youth? Join us for a free online workshop about ways adults can have supportive conversations with youth about cyberbullying.

About the Workshop

The goal of the workshop is to inform adults and provide them with helpful resources so that they can support young people to stay safe in their online lives.

This workshop will help you:

• Build language and understanding
• Spot the signs of cyberbullying
• Learn about Canadian youths online experiences and spaces
• Understand luring and sexual extortion
• Understand what the law says
• Support youth facing cyberbullying
• Use tools and resources for prevention and response

Workshop Topics

• Current state of cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying and cyberviolence from a PEI context
• Luring and sexual extortion
• Common types of cyberviolence according to the Criminal Code of Canada
• Quotes from teens
• Supportive responses adults can have
• Resources and support

For more information, or for resources and supports, please visit our website.

About the Presenters

Jaime Griffin

Jaime Griffin is a community educator and facilitator in cyber violence prevention, youth engagement, and healthy relationships, with over 17 years of experience working in schools, community settings and the non-profit sector. With a background in Child and Youth Care, Jaime creates and delivers engaging, age-appropriate programs that support youth, caregivers, and community members in building safer, more respectful relationships—both online and offline.

Malak Sherin Nassar

Malak is a Project Manager at Community Legal Information. She is currently managing the Cyberbullying Trauma-Informed Intervention Project that focuses on getting workshops to youth and parents so that youth can be more safe online. She hopes that through her work she can help improve people’s outcomes and experiences navigating their legal issues.

Accessibility Notes

This event will be happening online on Zoom. There will be live captions. The workshop will include a small break.

Participants joining the event will only be visible to the hosts.

Questions asked through the Q&A button will be anonymous. Identifying information in questions will be redacted when the question is asked publicly or the question may not be asked to avoid identifying participants.

If you have further accessibility needs please email malak@legalinfopei.ca and we will try to accommodate your request.