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The Center for Exploitation Education
Also known as ExEd, is a non profit organization and leading voice in preventing child and youth sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and online harm.
Our programs are trusted in schools, respected by experts, and grounded in lived experience, psychology, and trauma-informed practice.
How our original curriculum inspired one of the top leading exploitation prevention tools.
Written by the Center for Exploitation Education
The Prevention Project- now known as The Prevention Hub, is an animated video series created to educate children and youth from grade 3-12 on the realities of sexual exploitation, online grooming, sextortion, and human trafficking.
Developed for Canada and used internationally, it has reached audiences in over 80 countries within months of its release.
Behind these animated videos is a deeper story- one that began long before the videos, and one that’s deeply rooted in ExEd’s original classroom-based prevention programs.
The Inspiration
The Prevention Project was directly inspired by the pre-existing online curriculum and live student presentations developed and delivered by Tiana Sharifi at the Center for Exploitation Education (formerly Exploitation Education Institute).
As an expert in this field with extensive experience in both frontline and educational contexts, I had already developed and delivered student prevention programs that reached over 50,000 youth across Canada. Our sessions were known for being trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and focused on root causes—not fear tactics.
In 2022, when Ontario’s Ministry of Education mandated human trafficking prevention into the provincial curriculum, a forward-thinking school district approached us to develop the first-ever online curriculum complete with structured lesson plans and educator resources. That curriculum became the model and inspiration behind what would soon evolve into The Prevention Project.
Authorship
The videos from The Hub were developed and scripted by Tiana Sharifi- the CEO and founder of the Center for Exploitation Education.
Tiana Sharifi’s roles as the expert in this project was to develop the concepts behind each animated video story, to script them, provide instruction on tone of the actors, and write all of the educator facilitator guides.
She wrote the peer safety videos using the questions that we commonly asked by students during her presentations. She then carefully crafted the replies to speak to the psychology behind the vulnerabilities leading to those questions.
The animated scenario videos were based off of disclosures and stories she had received through her work, alongside some creative and fun concepts she had for cartoons.
Her life’s work and personal experiences were the backbone and inspiration behind the materials.
We believe that true prevention means addressing the root causes of exploitation by...
Promoting a culture of consent in person and digitally.
Preventing both victimization and perpetration by addressing core needs and facilitating empathy and critical thinking.
Understanding internet dynamics and the psychology behind vulnerability.
De-glamorizing objectification in culture and media.
Fostering a society where human beings are treated with dignity and respect. Where nobody has a price tag.
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