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Protecting Students Online
To learn more about icouldbe.org’s safety features view the presentation at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
icouldbe.org is a leader in online safety and fully complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Protecting the young people we work with is our top priority. We do this by performing identity verification and criminal and sex-offender background checks on all potential mentors, monitoring and filtering communications through our state-of-the-art system, and requiring our mentors to notify us of any inappropriate, illegal or potentially endangering communications.
Background Checks on Potential Mentors: Every mentor must pass a thorough background check in order to participate in icouldbe.org. This includes a National Criminal Check, a National Sex Offender Check and an Identification Verification.
Monitored and Filtered Communications: All communications between mentors and mentees occur internally within the icouldbe.org system and are subject to filters and monitored by program staff. Mentors and mentees utilize user names to protect their anonymity and do not communicate via their personal email addresses or identify the user’s name or place of residence.
Required Notification: If a mentee confides that he or she is the victim of sexual, emotional or physical abuse the mentor is required to notify icouldbe.org immediately and icouldbe.org will contact the proper authorities. If a mentee tells the mentor of their involvement in any illegal activity, the mentor must notify icouldbe.org immediately.
