Speak Up Be Safe is delivered by trained facilitators who present engaging and interactive, age-appropriate lessons to youth in grades Pre-K through 12.
What is Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe?
Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe (SUBS) is a comprehensive youth-focused program consisting of an evidence-based core curriculum for youth in all grades (Pre-K through 12), evidence-informed supplemental modules, resources, and activities for children and youth.
SUBS helps children and teens learn proactive skills to prevent abuse and other types of interpersonal harm with a focus on:
- Minimizing risks
- Building resistance skills
- Preventing perpetration
- Fostering healthy relationships and protective factors
- Creating a responsive safety network with peers and safe adults
Why Choose Speak Up Be Safe?
SUBS offers many benefits for facilitators, schools, organizations, and communities to provide impactful prevention education to youth.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Evidence-based for ALL grades
- Covers all types of abuse
- Addresses bullying and online safety
- Adaptable and flexible
- Affordable
- Aligned with education & health standards
- Meets legislative and policy mandates
- Scripted for easy use
- Engaging, skill-building lessons for kids
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- One year license for 2 facilitators
- Facilitator training
- Digital access to curriculum and collateral materials
- Printable scripts and downloadable PowerPoints
- Reinforcement activities
- Take-home materials for students and parents
- Additional evidence-informed modules
- Optional physical materials
- Full implementation support
Speak Up Be Safe Program Details
Grades Pre-K–2
A primary focus for the earliest age groups is emphasizing that adults are responsible to keep children safe. Students learn basic concepts of personal safety and how to identify safe adults in their lives.
Grades 3–5
Lessons underscore adult responsibility for child safety. Children, equipped with key safety rules, actively contribute to their own safety. They identify safe adults, recognize potential risks, and practice safety rules.
Grades 6–8
Adults remain responsible for child safety, yet lessons recognize students’ increasing responsibilities and privileges. Students learn to recognize potential risks and practice resistance strategies until they can talk to a safe adult.
Grades 9–12
Lessons highlight teens’ growing independence, focusing on ways to recognize unhealthy relationships and unsafe situations. Students learn to prevent abuse, seek help, and broaden their understanding of abusive behavior. Identifying safe adults and peers reinforces a strong safety network.
Flexible Pricing Options
Our flexible pricing options help ensure our programs are inclusive and accessible for any school or organization that wants high-quality prevention education programs to help better protect the children and youth in their community.
Per-Student Pricing
with Physical Materials
Childhelp’s traditional pricing for Speak Up Be Safe is based on number of students and includes an annual curriculum license, digital curriculum access, online facilitator training, and physical materials shipped for students and schools.
Fixed-Rate Pricing
with Digital Materials
We also offer a cost-effective, flat fee digital option that includes an annual curriculum license, digital curriculum access, online facilitator training, and downloadable / printable materials. Physical materials are available for purchase.
Alignments & Endorsements
Speak Up Be Safe is a recognized effective program that aligns with and supports many mandates and guidelines for youth-focused prevention education.
Meets the mandates and requirements of Jenna Quinn Law and Erin’s Law
Supplemental Modules & Resources
The Speak Up Be Safe program also provides supplemental evidence-informed prevention modules and additional resources.
Human trafficking is a growing risk for adolescents and teens. The Human Trafficking module closely mirrors the successful learning model of the Speak Up Be Safe core curriculum.
The module includes:
- comprehensive facilitator training
- two scripted lessons for each grade, 6–12 (approximately 30 minutes each)
- engaging classroom presentations
- activities that build skills to recognize and resist risks and help youth connect with safe adults
- impactful scenarios and videos
The Human Trafficking module is included with all Speak Up Be Safe subscriptions.
Staying Safe from Online Harm Module
Children and teens face many risks online like sextortion and online exploitation. Informed by renowned experts, the Staying Safe from Online Harm module equips educators, parents, caregivers, and other concerned adults with the tools to empower young people to stay safe online.
The module includes:
- comprehensive facilitator training
- two scripted lessons for youth ages 10–15 (approximately 45 minutes each)
- engaging presentations with embedded videos
- activities that build youth’s skills to recognize grooming and sextortion tactics, talk to safe adults, support peers, and get help
- student and caregiver handouts
- other helpful resources
Thanks to a partnership with Meta, this module is available to anyone at no cost.
Additional resources are available in our Resource Library (link to new Resources page once it’s built) and videos on topics like healthy relationships, personal boundaries, and red flags are available on the Childhelp Prevention YouTube channel.
Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe
research and results
Thanks to these activities, the CH SUBS core curriculum has been listed as evidence-based since 2021.
Childhelp has worked with the Arizona State University Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (ASU-SIRC) to incorporate evaluation standards, expand the curriculum, and gather efficacy research. This and other research into the impact of effective prevention education programs suggests that many students will be able to identify unsafe situations before abuse happens, while others will be able to recognize what is happening and seek help from their safe adults and the Childhelp National Hotline.