Webinar Recording from May 7, 2021

Modern Digital Dating Safety

Digital dating exploded during the pandemic -- and with it came new features, trends and apps. Not surprisingly, new and heightened risks materialized as well. However, minors and adults are joining apps and dating on social media, often unaware of the risks or red flags of impersonation, recruiting, stalking, image-based abuse and more. This needs to change. When empowered with the right information, these risks can be mitigated or even completely prevented.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to:

1) Identify 3 ways to prevent harassment on a dating app before joining. 

2) Recognize 3 signs of grooming or catfishing.

3) Explain 3 approaches to verifying a profile. 

4) Explain 3 fundamentals of safe sexting.

5) How to "effectively" report and block a user on Bumble, Hinge & Tinder. 

Who should attend: University and High School staff including counselors, investigators, advocates, teachers, title IX staff, etc.


Instructor

Adam Dodge

Instructor

Adam Dodge, J.D., is a California Attorney, and founder of EndTAB, who specializes in the ways technology is misused to harm victims of gender-based violence, elder abuse, human trafficking and stalking. He co-authored The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Divorce and has contributed to features in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, SELF Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, GQ and others. Adam spends a great deal of his time delivering innovative technology-enabled abuse presentations to victim-serving organizations and government agencies around the world.