Canadian Centre for Child Protection

In April 1985, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection was founded as Child Find Manitoba by Wilma Derksen, the mother of 13-year-old Candace Derksen, who was abducted and murdered on 30 November 1984. On 26 September 2002, the Cybertip.ca began operation as a two-year pilot project. In May 2004, it was recognized as a national hotline by the Canadian Government, and was officially launched in January 2005. In May 2011, C3P launched MissingKids.ca. == Projects ==

Cybertip.ca Cybertip.ca () is Canada's official tip-line for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. It is owned and operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, in partnership with local law enforcement agencies and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, whose National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre coordinates and supports national investigations into child sexual exploitation. Reports , over 10,000 reports are processed by Cybertip.ca each month. Reports to Cybertip.ca are submitted by the public under one of eight reporting categories: — 95.95% • Child prostitution — 0.38% • Child sex-tourism — 0.22% • Child trafficking — 0.14% • Luring — 1.98% • Making sexually explicit material available to a child — 0.31% • Non-consensual distribution of intimate images — 0.64% In 2018–2019, Cybertip.ca processed 1,474,075 reports, marking a 945% increase from 2017 to 2018. Of the reports processed, 98% were attributed to Project Arachnid; Of the child sexual exploitation reports processed, 99% were forwarded to law enforcement agencies, child welfare agencies, and/or INHOPE member hotlines, or a notice was sent to an electronic service provider; nearly 1.2 million notices were issued to electronic service providers in relation to child sexual abuse material Launched in 2004, Kids in the Know was created to help children from kindergarten to high school using the unique information taken into account from the operation of Cybertip.ca. MissingKids.ca MissingKids.ca is Canada’s missing children resource centre, offering families support in finding their missing child, as well as providing educational material to help prevent children from going missing. MissingKids.ca works in collaboration with Réseau Enfants-Retour to provide missing children services to Quebec residents. In turn, Réseau Enfants-Retour helps MissingKids.ca in offering case management support to Francophone families. Project Arachnid Project Arachnid is an automated crawler developed by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection to detect images and videos on the internet and the dark web based on confirmed digital fingerprints of illegal child sexual abuse content. , since its launch in 2017, Project Arachnid has processed more than 127 billion images; over 37.9 million images have been triggered for analyst review; over 7.2 million notices have been sent to internet service providers to remove child sexual abuse material; Aiming to work in collaboration on a global scale to reduce the availability of child sexual abuse material, the initiative is supported, in part, by the Secretary of State for the Home Department in the United Kingdom. Hotlines and organizations around the world have worked with the Centre on Project Arachnid, including: • Australian Government eSafety Commissioner • (Centre for Missing and Exploited Children Croatia) • Child Focus Belgium • ECPAT Sweden • Innocence in Danger Germany • Jugendschutz.net • Lastekaitse Liit — Estonian Union for Child Welfare • National Association for People Abused in Childhood • National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (US) • National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children • (Save the Children Finland) • Red Papaz (Columbia) • (Protect Children) == Partners ==

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has partnered with various organizations in the public and private sectors. The Centre has been supported by the Government of Canada since May 2004, particularly by Public Safety Canada under the "National Strategy for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation". The Centre is also supported by the Government of Manitoba and is a designated agency in the province to receive reports under Manitoba's Child and Family Services Act, as well as to provide supports and information pursuant to the provincial Intimate Image Protection Act. The Centre has also prioritized the establishment of formalized protocols with law enforcement agencies across Canada. , the Centre has signed formalized agreements with 26 law enforcement services around Canada. In regards to education and prevention programs, resources, and training, the Centre has formal memorandums of understanding/protocols in place with the Government of Manitoba, Coaching Association of Canada, Scouts Canada, Calgary & Area Child Advocacy Centre, and the Canadian Armed Forces/Canadian Cadet Organizations. C3P also provides resources and training to such child-serving organizations as Gymnastics Canada, viaSport British Columbia, the City of Winnipeg, and Canada Soccer. In the non-governmental sector, the Centre has partnered with and/or has been supported by: Bell, Telus, Shaw Communications, Bell MTS, Lifetouch, Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, Rogers, No Fixed Address, SaskTel, Old Navy, Circle K, Disney, and Magnet Forensics. For Project Arachnid, the Centre works with hotlines and government organizations from around the world, including: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, ECPAT Sweden, (Centre for Missing and Exploited Children Croatia), Australian Government eSafety Commissioner, (Protect Children), (Save the Children Finland), Jugendschutz.net, Child Focus Belgium, Lastekaitse Liit — Estonian Union for Child Welfare, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, National Association for People Abused in Childhood, and Innocence in Danger Germany. == See also ==