The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

million dollars in funding for projects at the local, state, or multi-state levels. These projectsfeatured outreach efforts and innovative programming to schools, youth and communityorganizations, business entities, and various parent groups. These programs providedcomprehensive training, curricula and online educational programming about online safety forchildren. The focus of OJJDP’s Project Safe Childhood public education and communityawareness program is prevention: public education and awareness about the online sexualexploitation of children helps to prevent the victimization of children through technologyfacilitatedmeans.• The national media campaign was designed as a bilingual campaign (in English and Spanish)and featured four public service announcements, a three-part Webisode, Web banners, radioads, movie theater ads and print materials. These materials are being used by appropriate lawenforcement and advocacy groups to educate the public about the technology-facilitatedvictimization of children and about the importance of online safety.• The PSAs titled “Know Where They Go” and “No Lo Harias” are a call to action to parentsand ask them to learn about online safety and to supervise their children’s online activities.The PSAs titled “Decisions” and “No Arruines Tu Vida” target potential and low-levelonline predators, informing them that downloading child pornography or enticing minorsonline are serious federal crimes with lifelong consequences and legal ramifications.Audience-specific websites were created to provide additional information.• The PSC media campaign featured a national media launch, regional media events in fourcities, and large scale public awareness events about Internet safety in designated markets.These events were supported by television, radio, online and movie theater placement ofPSAs in these regions.• The Department supported local events with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices across the nationutilizing materials developed under the Project Safe Childhood initiative.• Under PSC, the number of federal child exploitation prosecutions has increased significantly,along with the number of federal, state, and local investigations and convictions, and morevictims are being identified.d. ICACsAs discussed in depth above, the 61 ICAC Task Forces are funded and coordinated through theDepartment’s OJP. These Task Forces are designed and have proven successful incollaboratively working with federal, state, and local offices.2. FBI’s Law Enforcement Coordination EffortsAs noted above, the FBI is engaged in many task forces and initiatives, including their InnocentImages National Initiative, the Innocence Lost National Initiative, and the Innocent ImagesInternational Task Force. All of these initiatives involve agents and investigators from all levelsof the government.The FBI has also stepped up its efforts to disrupt human trafficking operations worldwide and tofree these organization’s victims. The FBI works with other local, state, and federal lawenforcement agencies and national victim-based advocacy groups in joint task forces that99