National Youth
Internet Safety
and Cyberbullying
Task Force
(ISTF)
The National Youth Internet Safety and Cyberbullying Task Force, Inc. promotes safe online practices for teens, families, and educators. It also serves as a catalyst for the prevention of teen suicide, bullying, teen dating abuse, and human trafficking through education, resources, support, and helplines. Teaching our children how to be safe online can prevent many dangerous situations from happening. The task force works to assist parents, schools, children, and families across the United States and also assists teens across Canada, Australia, and England via our helpline.
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ISTF is a human services organization and non-profit organization under the Internal Revenue Service's 501(c)(3) tax exemption code.
Internet Safety
Internet safety is a topic that affects teens and children of all ages, as well as parents, educators, and community members. Unsafe online practices can lead to a variety of issues including cyberbullying, bullying, harassment, stalking, child exploitation, and a variety of other very serious issues.
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Often times, teenagers don't realize how important it is to stay safe while online and on social media. Because of this, teenagers can land themselves into very dangerous situations with people they don't even know.
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Because internet safety is such a wide sprerad issue and because teens are online everyday, we feel that it's important to work hard to keep teenagers and children safe while they choose to be online.
Teen Dating Abuse
Teenagers often involve themselves in the world of dating. Many parents worry about their teenagers dating or even making new friends and often times, parents aren't sure what to do if their teenager gets involved in a dangerous online relationship.
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Teen dating can be a wonderful new experience if done safety. However, many teenagers don't know the warning signs of an unsafe relationship and most teenagers are too involved in finding love, that they don't pay attention to who they're really talking to.
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Many teens meet new people through social media, chatroom's, and video games, however teenagers don't really know the person, because they've never met them in person.
Cyberbullying
and
Bullying
Bullying happens everyday in almost every school across the world. As technology improves, so does social media. Cyberbullying has become almost a new epidemic in the lives of millions of teenagers each year. Teens bully for a variety of reasons including having trouble at home as well as being lonely or not having friends themselves.
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As anonymous apps started being used by teens, it's now as easy as ever to say something mean to another person. Nowadays, teens can do it without anyone even knowing that it was them.
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Over 150,000 teenagers miss school each day due to bullying, both in school and online. Teens should feel safe at school and online, and unfortunately for many teens, they feel anything but safe.
Get Involved
The task force accepts volunteers from all age groups. Joining the task force allows you to make a difference in the lives of people across the nation. It also allows you to make new friends as well as complete any required high school or college volunteer hours.
We have volunteers across the world and a lot of them work with our research and education team. Many other volunteers volunteer with our Division of Special Operations and Events.
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We accept volunteers of any age, as well as volunteers with busy schedules. The majority of our work is done through volunteers so we can always use the help! You can request a volunteer application by emailing us below.
