Child protection & grooming prevention
Our “No More Grooming” / “Enough with Grooming” work helps children, schools and families recognise grooming risks, unsafe behaviour and ways to seek support before harm escalates.
Knowing the warning signs
Grooming is the slow process an abuser uses to build trust with a child — and with the adults around them — in order to commit sexual abuse. Because it can look like kindness or special attention, it is often missed until harm has been done.
When children and the adults around them know the warning signs, that process can be interrupted early. That is the heart of our child-protection work: clear, age-appropriate knowledge that helps young people stay safe and speak up.
This page describes prevention education. If a child is in immediate danger in Thailand, call the 1300 social-assistance hotline or the police on 191.
Youth-led prevention
The train-the-trainer programme prepares student facilitators with the knowledge and skills to understand grooming risks, then supports them to carry the learning into their own schools and communities.
It is practical peer advocacy: children speaking to children, with adults and the foundation behind them. Young facilitators learn to name unsafe behaviour, share prevention strategies and point friends toward trusted support.
How the programme works
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We train young advocates
Youth are trained as peer trainers using our grooming-prevention curriculum, so the message comes from people children trust.
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They teach their peers
Those advocates run age-appropriate sessions with other children and youth, in language that feels natural to them.
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Schools carry it forward
Participating schools embed the lessons in their own settings, reaching more children every term.
Clear language for difficult situations
Recognising grooming
Understanding common stages of grooming and why unsafe behaviour can be hard to spot at first.
Online and offline safety
Building awareness of risk in real-life relationships, messaging, social media and gaming spaces.
Seeking help
Practising how to talk with trusted friends, adults and support organisations when something feels unsafe.
Sharing knowledge
Helping young trainers explain prevention clearly to classmates and younger students.
What we’ve done together
Figures from the Peace Culture Foundation’s “Enough with Grooming” programme.
Bring grooming prevention to your school
We work with schools and community groups across Chiang Mai. Get in touch to arrange training, or help fund the next group of young advocates.