I have three more pages, but I won't read them all. I'll only read the titles that I thought about because I've been thinking about solutions and ways that we can work on this as a society.
It's building awareness and capacity through education, curriculum, social empathy, and healthy relationships. It's talking about reporting and law enforcement. If something happens and it's reported, what's going to happen after it has been reported? I hear from so many families who say they've reported it, and their kids have just been told to get off the Internet. What's the next step? I own that loss, and I share that with them.
There are survivor stories: We hear of lots of people, individuals who have been victimized, young girls, young women, young boys, and men. We need to listen to their stories, listen to how they survived, hear about what brought them resiliency and strength. Let's learn from their stories.
Social media and the Internet: Social media networks need to work more on their safety impacts, what they're doing, and how they're doing it.
With regard to pornography on the Internet, more research and widespread research needs to be done on the impact on young boys of watching pornography and how that is rewiring the structures of their brain and how they're behaving. Once again, it goes back to behaviours and relationships.
We need to shift societal norms so we can freely talk about these issues, because without being able to freely talk about them, we can't come to any solutions that have a definite, positive nature.
We need to ask our young people for input, because young people listen to young people. They don't always listen to us older people who may be a bit wiser, but we can definitely get our young people to take on more of a leadership role.