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#ICANHELP Digital Citizenship Education Program at Putnam County R-I Schools

Empowering Positive Peers and Posts at Putnam

January 30, 2024

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 30, 2024

Kim Karr, Co-Founder/Executive Director
#ICANHELP
kim@icanhelp.net
(925) 237-1056

#ICANHELP Digital Citizenship Education Program at Putnam County R-I Schools

Empowering Positive Peers and Posts at Putnam

Unionville, Missouri: #ICANHELP delivered a powerful presentation on the importance of digital safety to over 400 students at Putnam County Middle and High School. The presentation highlighted how students and adults can maintain a positive digital footprint and become “Digital First Responders”: people who are prepared to handle cyberbullying, harassment, and other forms of abuse as soon as they arise.

#ICANHELP is a nonprofit corporation that educates students on the proper use of social media and empowers children, teens, and adults to deal with conflict, negativity, and harassment online. 

“We don’t usually think of it, but just like the way negativity can spread, people can be swayed or encouraged when the majority are doing ‘good’ online. Students just need to be shown how to respond to the negativity. We need to empower our future generation to take action against all the issues that are arising with technology,” says Co-Founder Kim Karr. “Through #ICANHELP, students are learning that kindness saves lives and it doesn’t have to be anything big — a simple smile or a nice Post-it note on a locker might be all it takes.”

Students are the core of the solution to online toxicity, and their help is more crucial than ever in today’s digital world. Co-founder Kim Karr explains, “#ICANHELP has worked with over four hundred and fifty thousand students to be the digital change they want to see.” The nonprofit’s student-led approach to solving complicated social issues presents students as part of the solution, not the problem. It aims to raise awareness, offer real-world best practices, and celebrate the many examples of students using digital for good. 

For more information on #ICANHELP, visit http://www.icanhelp.net.