Do You Understand Your Power?
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Hey Reader! You can help young people recognize digital harms early. You can help them build healthier digital habits. You can help them question what they are seeing and seek support when they need it. Digital well-being is about youth safety and mental health. MDR is here to stand in the gap to help you support the young people who are entrusted in your care.
The urgency of this work continues to grow. The federal TAKE IT DOWN Act recently entered its enforcement phase, establishing new requirements for platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate images, including AI-generated images and other digital forgeries. This is an important protection.
Yet, policies alone cannot prepare the adults working directly with young people to recognize emerging harms, respond effectively, and build preventive practices before a crisis occurs.
Many digital well-being and media literacy programs offer valuable strategies for supporting young people broadly. Yet broad approaches can overlook those experiencing the greatest vulnerability. MDR centers the young people most affected by identity-based marginalization and system involvement—including those who may turn to digital spaces to meet profound needs for safety, belonging, identity, and community. Our training helps practitioners develop culturally responsive best practices and preventive measures that account for those realities. That is the work we will take up in our two-part professional development training, Wednesday, August 5th at 10amPST/1pm EST, and Thursday, August 6th at 10am PST/1pm EST: Youth Well-Being in Digital Spaces: Practical Strategies for Harm Prevention and Engagement. Join Us!
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