1. Guiding Youth in a Connected World By Chris Rider Executive Director, BYTE

2. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com About BYTE Our Mission: “To unlock potential through youth empowerment” Founded in Whitehorse in 1998. Focused on experiential workshop programming for Northern Youth. We travel to each Yukon Community at least once per year. Workshops include Leadership, Safe Partying, Digital Citizenship & Ending Bullying. We also run youth-focused events.

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4. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com Online bullying 89% of students report that “online meanness or cruelty” is rarely or never a problem for them. 72% of students report that they can go to their parents for a solution when there is an issue. Source: Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III MediaSmarts © 2015

5. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com Sexting Only 8% of students from grades 4-11 have ever sent a sext to someone. 4% have forwarded a sext that they have received to somebody else. Resources exist to help youth remove photographs, such as www.needhelpnow.ca. www.needhelpnow.ca Source: Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III MediaSmarts © 2015

6. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com Yukon Statistics Source: Health and Health‐Related Behaviours Among Young People in Yukon – 2015

7. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com Yukon Statistics (cont.) Source: Health and Health‐Related Behaviours Among Young People in Yukon – 2015

8. Why do young people bully? Question:

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12. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com “Sticks & Stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”

13. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com Thanks for Listening Please keep in touch! www.yukonyouth.com ed@yukonyouth.com

14. @ByteYukon Yukonyouth.com Brief reading List Teenagers are still developing empathy skills (article): http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304561004579137514122387446 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304561004579137514122387446 Empathy & the Brain (article): http://www.parentingscience.com/empathy-and-the-brain.html The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction (article): http://www.parentingscience.com/empathy-and-the-brain.html http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-still-under- construction/index.shtml http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-still-under- construction/index.shtml Bully Nation, by Dr. Susan Porter (book): http://www.amazon.ca/Bully-Nation-Americas-Childhood-Aggression/dp/1557789045 http://www.amazon.ca/Bully-Nation-Americas-Childhood-Aggression/dp/1557789045 Sticks & Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, by Emily Bazelon (book): http://www.amazon.ca/Sticks-Stones-Defeating-Rediscovering-Character/dp/0812992806 http://www.amazon.ca/Sticks-Stones-Defeating-Rediscovering-Character/dp/0812992806 BYTE University (Northern Youth Facilitation Guide): http://www.yukonyouth.com/byte-university/ http://www.yukonyouth.com/byte-university/