Recently, Savvy Cyber Kids had the opportunity to host a booth at the Crimes Against Children Conference, where I attended several sessions organized by the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. There were over 5,600 law enforcement officers and child care advocates that specialize in Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) in attendance. [...]
Fundraising has always been a challenge for non-profit organizations, especially small 501(c)(3) non-profits like Savvy Cyber Kids. Add the events of 2020 on top of everything else and we needed a new way to fundraise that will help us to continue to develop new and updated learning materials for parents [...]
Savvy Cyber Kids exists to enable youth, families and school communities to be empowered by technology. We believe that the adults in young people’s lives have a responsibility to guide young people with a comprehensive cyber safety and cyber ethics education. After all, today’s youth are growing up in a [...]
2019 ended on a high-note for Savvy Cyber Kids as we were featured in a cover story in the Sunday, December 8, 2019 edition of the New York Times, Video Games and Online Chats Are ‘Hunting Grounds’ for Sexual Predators. It was a surreal feeling to see a story that discusses [...]
Savvy Cyber Kids exists to enable youth, families and school communities to be empowered by technology. We believe that the adults in young people’s lives have a responsibility to guide young people with a comprehensive cyber safety and cyber ethics education. After all, today’s youth are growing up in a [...]
Back to school is almost here and our kids are getting ready to greet the new school year with excitement and anticipation. As our kids get older, we hope that some of the earliest lessons from preschool years are still remembered, lessons like ‘be kind to others’ and ‘treat others [...]
On March 26, Ben Halpert, Savvy Cyber Kids’ founder, gave testimony before Georgia Legislature’s House committee in support of HR 553, which would create a House study committee on cyber-bullying. Ben told state representatives, “Those wishing to cause our children harm now have more effective ways of doing so. The [...]
Ben recently travelled to Massachusetts and presented to more than 1,000 seventh graders at middle schools in the Haverhill school district. His presentations were underwritten by HTM Credit Union. Read about what Ben Halpert wants teenagers to know what is really happening with the technology they use in their daily [...]
Ben Halpert is a man on a mission: to educate and empower today’s digital citizens in the workplace, at schools and at home. By day, he is the VP of Risk and Corporate Security at Ionic Security Inc. bringing his global experience in Risk Management, Cyber Security, Physical Security, Audit, [...]
Since 2007, Savvy Cyber Kids has been fighting to keep our kids' digital playgrounds a safe place to play and learn. No doubt, the online world is littered with dangers and pitfalls that we need our kids to understand so that they can thrive online. Savvy Cyber Kids first began [...]