Online safety course · Age 7–17

Harmful Content and Mental Wellbeing

Help children respond to disturbing, violent, sexual, hateful, or self-harm-related content and understand healthy screen habits.

Course overview

What does the “Harmful Content and Mental Wellbeing” course teach?

Help children respond to disturbing, violent, sexual, hateful, or self-harm-related content and understand healthy screen habits. The lessons are: When Content Feels Wrong, Algorithms and Rabbit Holes, Misinformation and Manipulation, Healthy Screen Habits. Learners complete a hands-on activity before moving on. Pause, check, choose: decide whether to continue, report, leave, or ask for help.

AudienceAge 7–17. Children and teens. Parent training is available separately.
FormatShort video lessons, a hands-on activity and knowledge checks in the Child Protect Academy.
CompletionA completion certificate is issued after the full course is completed, where enabled.

Lessons in this course

What learners cover, in order.

1
When Content Feels Wrong
2
Algorithms and Rabbit Holes
3
Misinformation and Manipulation
4
Healthy Screen Habits

Hands-on activity

Pause, check, choose: decide whether to continue, report, leave, or ask for help.

How this course fits Child Protect

This course is part of the Child Protect Academy, one of two connected parts of Child Protect. Training helps children recognize unsafe situations and know how to ask for help, which can help concerns surface earlier. When a concern is raised, the Child Protect safeguarding platform supports the school’s response. See the safeguarding lifecycle.

Availability

What is available today: the Child Protect safeguarding platform is live. The Child Protect Academy is live at edu.childprotect.co, with video lessons, guided quizzes, step-by-step progress and completion certificates. Two courses are available now after signing in, and the full set of ten courses, in English and Thai, is scheduled for launch. Schools can join the waiting list to be notified.

Common questions

Who is the “Harmful Content and Mental Wellbeing” course for?

It is for children and teens, age 7–17. Parents and caregivers have a separate course.

Does this course replace safeguarding reporting?

No. Training builds awareness. Concerns still go through the school’s safeguarding process, and in an emergency you should call 191.

Is a certificate issued?

A completion certificate is issued after the full course is completed, where enabled.

Last updated: 4 October 2026

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