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Resources
Downloadable Guides
From our partnership with the Rising Steps Learning Center, we have made available a variety of resource guides to empower you with practical skills to identify perpetrators and exploitation. Including tips for trauma-informed and child development solutions. Feel free to download and save to your devices. Printed versions are available at startrisingup.com
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GROOMING: Perpetrator Behavior Guide
A simple guide by frontline professionals and experts to empower citizens with tools to detect perpetrator behavior.
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PREVAIL: Assessing Adverse Experiences Guide
A simple guide & assessment tests provide helpful insight into the severity of trauma an individual may have experienced.
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OPEN EYE REPORT: Unmasking Child Exploitation
This in-depth report confirms that the epidemic of child exploitation in the United States is now too big for government solutions.
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WATCH: Assessment Guide for At-Risk Children
A simple 5-step tool created by frontline professionals and experts to guide mandated reporters and concerned citizens about reporting.
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SAFE ADULT: Model for Protecting Kids
A simple guide by frontline professionals and experts to empower citizens with the tools needed to safeguard & protect kids.
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CONDENSED: Child Development Guide
An overview and colorful guide to the emotional, social, cognitive, physical, sexual, & spiritual development stages and ages 0-25.
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Resources
Resource Kits
From our partnership with the Rising Steps Learning Center, we have made available life-changing resource kits to empower you with practical skills to safeguard and care for children.
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CHILD DEVELOPMENT KIT: Is this Normal?
Gives adults & parents the ability to find clarity amid chaos, assess a child’s development stages, improve adult-child interactions, & take strategic action for the well-being of children.
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SAFEGUARD CHILDREN KIT: They’re Worth It!
Provides safe adults with the skills to discern, detect, & take action to safeguard and protect children from all forms of child exploitation through prevention & early intervention strategies.
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Resources
Tests & Tools
From our partnership with the Rising Steps Learning Center, we have made available testing and tools to empower you with practical skills to assess trauma and take action.
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EXPANDED ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences Test
Experts agree that though the ACEs test of 10 base questions was groundbreaking and insightful, other trauma factors massively impact a child’s development & must also be considered. This expanded ACEs test includes questions for these additional trauma factors.
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AAEs: Adverse Adulthood Experiences Test
This test was inspired by the nationally recognized ACEs study on the long-term impacts of childhood trauma. The AAE is similarly designed to measure adverse experiences within adulthood and provide a score so that individuals can quantify the trauma they have experienced.
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REPORTING PREP TOOL: Assessing a Child’s Danger Level
This tool was created in collaboration with frontline professionals & experts to guide mandated reporters and concerned citizens with the information they need to gather before making a report of abuse. This free tool implements the assessment principles from the Watch Assessment Guide.