Making Safe Schools Happen is a campaign for digitized personal safety lessons nationwide by the Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse (CPTCSA) Inc. For 25 years Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse has taken a leadership role of building child protection systems in schools to benefit the child, family, community, and our country by developing resea
rch-based materials for all grade levels, from K-12. In 1994 we developed a relationship with Committee for Children to revise and translate their award-winning classroom lessons. We developed a relationship with then DECS, and invited to officially open our services in 1995.
2. The process to revise foreign materials to be relevant to our population was presented at year ISPCAN Conference.
3. The work of CPTCSA to prevent child sexual abuse by empowering students was among the finalists for the WISE award.
4. CPTCSA, joined by agencies and people, celebrated the successful campaign to mandate that all schools teach the prevention materials, Personal Safety Lessons, DepEd Order #45 series of 2009.
5. CPTCSA discarded the original personal safety lessons and built indigenous materials based on what we learned from using the foreign-revised materials. The lessons were written in English because there were teachers who requested this – it was felt that teachers would use the vernacular language in each classroom, so providing lesson plans in English would allow for every teacher to get the same message. Illustrations were redrawn for each story on which lessons were built.
6. In 2018, CPTCSA began the process to digitalize the lessons, both film and app, in order to reach more children nationwide. Because the lessons were written in English, the filming began by using English.
7.With the emergence of the pandemic, we wish to use this opportunity to make all our lessons available to every child nationwide through a film to be used by teachers, or an app to be used individually.
