Interventions Database
We have developed a database of more than 200 interventions to help prevent child sexual abuse from across the globe. These are based on published research or documentation from the relevant organisation, with evaluative data included where available.
You can search and filter these below to find interventions most appropriate to your target audience.
Of course, each approach will be suited to its own geographical, cultural, legal and socioeconomic context; and inclusion of an intervention or resource within this database does not necessarily indicate effectiveness. You will need to adapt these interventions to your own context.
Therapeutic Treatment Orders
Community based treatment programmes for young people with harmful sexual behaviour.Therapeutic Treatment Orders
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Family Work
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Group Work
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Individual Work
Turn the Page
A treatment programme for adolescents with harmful sexual behaviour including girls and young people with learning difficulties.Turn the Page
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Individual Work
The NSPCC Underpants Rule Campaign
A campaign supported by guidance documents which gives parents and carers a simple way of talking with their child about staying safe, without using scary words.The NSPCC Underpants Rule Campaign
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Book/Guide
G-Map
A community based treatment programme for young people with harmful sexual behaviour and their families/carers.G-Map
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Counselling
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Family Work
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Individual Work
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Residential
Man to Man
A public education campaign which uses celebrities and male leaders to promote a vision of childhood free from abuse and exploitation.Man to Man
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Public Education
ECPAT Supporting Marginalised Youth in Brazil
An intervention aimed at targeting marginalised transsexual young people to help prevent commercial sexual exploitation.ECPAT Supporting Marginalised Youth in Brazil
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Counselling
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Mentoring
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Peer Support
Stepping Stones
A gender transformation programme designed to build knowledge of sexual health, awareness of risks and consequences of risk taking and provide opportunity for self-reflection of sexual behaviour.Stepping Stones
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Classroom Setting
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Group Work
The Te Piriti Special Treatment Unit Child Sexual Offending Treatment Programme
The Te Piriti Special Treatment Unit at Auckland Regional Prison houses adult males who have been convicted of sexual offences against children.The Te Piriti Special Treatment Unit Child Sexual Offending Treatment Programme
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Group Work
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Individual Work
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Prison
Strong Mothers
A book which aims to provide support and information to mothers whose children have been sexually abused.Strong Mothers
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Book/Guide
Helping Children with Sexual Behaviour Problems
A guidebook for professionals and caregivers which provides advice and guidance on helping children and young people decrease their problematic sexual behaviours.Helping Children with Sexual Behaviour Problems
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Book/Guide
fragFINN.de: The Net for Kids
A search engine specifically for children in Germany which is based on a ‘whitelist’ of secure websites for children to help them surf the internet without the risk of finding harmful content.fragFINN.de: The Net for Kids
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Online/App
Responsive Education and Awareness for Child Protection (REAP)
A public education programme designed to educate various members of the community (e.g. doctors, religious leaders, parents) around the reality and signs, of child sexual abuse.Responsive Education and Awareness for Child Protection (REAP)
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Public Education
Today's Children, Tomorrow's Parents
A psychoeducational life skills programme integrated into the school curriculum for High School students designed to address risk factors for teenage pregnancy and to strengthen future parenting practices as well as prevent sexual violence in relationships.Today's Children, Tomorrow's Parents
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Classroom Setting
Helping Mothers Move Forward
A book for use by professionals who are working with 'principally but not exclusively' mothers of children who have been sexually abused; including safe carers. It aims to assess and offer therapy and support to mothers.Helping Mothers Move Forward
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Book/Guide
Expect Respect UK
A toolkit for addressing relationship abuse, for use with primary school children and secondary school young people. It challenges attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse.Expect Respect UK
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Classroom Setting
Let's Talk About Touching - A Card Game
A card game for professionals to use with children and young people aged 7 to 17 years, who are at risk or who exhibit sexualised or harmful sexual behaviours.Let's Talk About Touching - A Card Game
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Game
New Me Coping
An accredited treatment programme, delivered in prisons and targeted at adult male convicted sex offenders, aiming to restructuring pro-offending attitudes and to develop a New Me.New Me Coping
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Group Work
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Prison
Extended Sex Offender Treatment Programme
As an extended version of the Core Sex Offender Treatment Programme, it is a cognitive-behavioural group treatment programme, delivered in prison, targeted at adult male convicted sex offenders.Extended Sex Offender Treatment Programme
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Group Work
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Prison
The Ma'agalim Centre
A therapeutic centre for adult male sex offenders, in the community.The Ma'agalim Centre
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Counselling
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Group Work
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Individual Work
Living as New Me
A treatment programme for men aged 18 or over who have been convicted of or have attempted to commit a contact sexual offence against a child.Living as New Me
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Group Work
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Prison