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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
GROOMING: Perpetrator Behavior Guide
A simple guide by frontline professionals and experts to empower citizens with tools to detect perpetrator behavior.
PREVAIL: Assessing Adverse Experiences Guide
A simple guide & assessment tests provide helpful insight into the severity of trauma an individual may have experienced.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.