Sextortion and Image-Based Abuse
A careful teen-focused module explaining coercion, threats, blackmail, evidence saving, reporting, and the importance of asking for help quickly.
Course overview
What does the “Sextortion and Image-Based Abuse” course teach?
A careful teen-focused module explaining coercion, threats, blackmail, evidence saving, reporting, and the importance of asking for help quickly. The lessons are: What Is Sextortion?, How Sextortion Usually Starts, What To Do If It Happens, Shame Is the Trap. Learners complete a hands-on activity before moving on. Decision-tree scenario: a stranger threatens to share an image. What is the safest first step?
Lessons in this course
What learners cover, in order.
Hands-on activity
Decision-tree scenario: a stranger threatens to share an image. What is the safest first step?
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 “Sextortion and Image-Based Abuse” course for?
It is for children and teens, age 14–17. 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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