Yes. I'll try to give a broad overview of some of the programs we have in place in Ontario. First, I'll focus on the provincial strategy we have for protecting children against child abuse.
This strategy involves the partnership of 18 police services across Ontario. This strategy started in 2006 and collectively has investigated over 22,000 incidents of child sexual abuse and made countless arrests, and well over 8,000 charges and over 2,500 arrests have been made with respect to that strategy. This is about leveraging our collective input so that together as a police community we can focus on the commonalities we have from one jurisdiction to another, because as we've heard repeatedly today, this crime knows no borders. That strategy is more from an enforcement perspective.
At the community level, we have school resource officers, community services officers who are constantly in touch with the media. We view our media as one of our critical partners in delivering key safety messages right across the board; our school resource officers are working with the kids right in the schools themselves. NeedHelpNow, one amazing tool that's available, we constantly put out to the kids through posters and brochures in the hallways of our schools. This is a very intuitive website that helps direct kids and gives them very quick answers. It gives them guidance on how to tackle this.
The youthconnected.ca that I mentioned earlier is a program that the OPP completely supported, along with the Ontario Provincial Police Youth Foundation and some private partners, to develop this website that was created by teenagers themselves. In that program, it gives lesson plans, for example, that teachers and parents can use to help guide and instruct children on safer Internet practices.
Annually, there's a Safer Internet Day and in those avenues we're constantly educating public displays on safe Internet. Just yesterday in the City of Brockville, there was a kiosk set up in the malls during police week, focusing on safe Internet usage and how to guide, instruct, and educate our children and our teenagers on this phenomenon of sexting, as an example.
There's a lot more going on. Our focus right now is educating our front-line officers to give good advice, that we're giving proper guidance to parents and teachers and teens themselves so that they're not misled and that they don't feel helpless, and that we are there to do our part.
On a broader sense, however, we realize that because of the economics of policing, we're having to capitalize more greatly on our partnership through our framework for action in Ontario for crime prevention, and our community mobilization and engagement of our stakeholders in our community. We alone cannot solve these problems. From an enforcement perspective, we're there. We can provide investigative excellence, but if we do not have community partners at all levels, we will not be able to fill our mandate to keep our communities safe.