Goals: To make sure young people are informed about sexual exploitation so they can avoid putting themselves at risk
Funding: Barnardo's, Dundee City Council, The Corner young people's health and information project and The WEB Project
Contact: www.faceup2it.org/boysroom.html
Sexual exploitation among boys is often less visible than that of girls.
Yet young males are often unwilling to discuss being targeted by predatory adults through fear of being labelled weak or gay.
A group of young people, aged 12-18, who had been approached or who were aware of the exploitation and were worried their friends would become involved, decided to take action.
As part of Barnado's Fight Against Child Exploitation (FACE) project, the young people set up an interactive web page on the FACE web site to raise awareness of the issue.
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