Do you have questions or concerns about your child’s screen time and/or internet safety? Tune into these special, LIVE Broadcast events, which are presented by Victoria, a B.C.-based company and experts in internet safety and digital literacy, The White Hatter. The live broadcasts can be viewed from the Port Angeles Library or online.

Co-Sponsored by the Port Angeles School District, United Way of Clallam County, and Molina Healthcare with support from the North Olympic Library System and Sequim School District

Dates & topics:

• Internet Safety and Digital Literacy for Parents and Caregivers: Oct. 12, 7-9 pm

Helping parents to proactively understand the enabling power of technology and mobile communications, but also how to mitigate the unintended consequences of high-risk or undesirable online behavior.

• Gaming Concerns, Balance, Addiction & Opportunities: Nov. 9, 7-9 pm

This session will help families create healthy gameplay boundaries based upon credible peer-reviewed research, stories, and first-hand examples of the positives and negatives of online gaming. We will also examine the research surrounding the debate of gaming addiction.

• Online Porn, Radicalization, Shaming & Disinformation: Dec. 14, 7-9 pm

Despite all the good online, it would be negligent not to acknowledge the fact that there is concerning content that both parents and youth need to know about from an emotional, psychological, physical, social and cognitive standpoint.

This webinar covers the categories of major concerns that both parents and youth should be alive to, and how parents can talk about these concerns in an enlightening and not frightening way.