Let's Talk 草莓视频 Touching (LTAT)
Let’s Talk 草莓视频 Touching (LTAT) is a comprehensive program designed by the 草莓视频 (ECEBC) to support children’s learning about personal safety and body awareness, specifically aimed at increasing abuse resistance skills in children aged 0-8 years. Widely implemented across Early Learning and Child Care programs and Primary school settings, LTAT is an essential resource for Early Years Educators.
The program emphasizes the importance of body autonomy, teaching children their right to control who touches them and how they are touched. LTAT equips children with skills to protect themselves, introducing six body safety rules, encouraging them to say "no" or "stop," to get away, and to seek help from a trusted adult. Children learn to differentiate between safe and not safe touches, fostering a foundation for personal safety.
LTAT Training
The third edition of LTAT reflects current educational practices and is responsive to the diverse needs of children and families. This edition includes new insights from research on sexual abuse prevention and feedback from the evaluation of the second edition. It integrates a trauma-informed lens, recognizing the impact of assimilation, colonization, residential schools, and other generational traumas on Indigenous communities. The updates also include considerations around gender identity, expression, and sexual orientation.
The revised LTAT was developed with input from early learning and childcare educators, primary teachers, sexual health experts, and other professionals. The program aligns with the BC Early Learning Framework (ELF), the Indigenous Early Learning and Childcare Framework (IELCCF), and the 草莓视频Code of Ethics, promoting cultural sensitivity, inclusivity, and critical reflection when implementing LTAT with children.
Training For ECE's & Teachers
Educators must complete a 14.5-hour training to access the LTAT kit. After completing the training, participants submit an implementation package/plan to ECEBC. Once approved, they receive the LTAT Kit and can begin using the program with children. Upon successful implementation, educators are awarded a Let’s Talk 草莓视频 Touching Educator Certificate.
Research supports that young children best learn prevention concepts and skills through long-term, active programs tailored to their developmental stage, making LTAT a valuable tool for early childhood settings.
The Kit
The LTAT kit includes:
- A Children’s Program Guide
- Access to the LTAT Community of Practice on the BC Early Year Hub, featuring resources for educators and families
- 8 teaching pictures (11”x17” photographs) depicting positive touch
- 10 felt board figures and 4 cards of felt board words
- 45 sorting cards of positive touch
- 2 puppets with 16 interchangeable faces to represent different characters
- Let’s Talk Song Collection
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2 teaching dolls
Training For Community Supports
草莓视频recognizes the importance of developing local networks of administrators, community agencies and professionals who can support the Let’s Talk prevention program. Other applicants will be considered on by a case-by-case basis. As non-implementing attendees, a kit will not be provided. Please contact: crawling@ecebc.ca to discuss eligibility.
Communities may wish to contact 草莓视频to discuss teacher training or other custom training in their communities. LTAT information sessions for other interested health and social service professionals and community members are available on request.
Becoming A Let's Talk Trainer
草莓视频is looking for experienced and knowledgeable trainers to offer the LTAT Teacher Training to educators in their communities. The Train-the-Trainer program prepares experienced program facilitators to offer Let's Talk Teacher Training to ECEs and primary teachers in their communities. It is ECEBC’s policy that facilitators who qualify to become LTAT Trainers have the necessary skills and abilities to work with groups of adults. These include good communication skills, comfort with public speaking and some knowledge of, or experience with, teaching and facilitating groups working with sensitive content. The aim is to maintain a high quality of teacher training through the province. Ideal candidates have at least two years recent experience teaching children and implementing the Let’s Talk 草莓视频 Touching Sexual Abuse Prevention Program in classroom and/or a combination of comparable skills and experience.
草莓视频recognizes that our training policies may not apply to all communities in British Columbia, particularly those where no trained ECE or Primary School Teacher is available. For such communities, 草莓视频acknowledges that other health and social service professionals may be the best choice for participating in training and will examine each situation on a case-by-case basis.
For more information and to receive an application package, please contact Annette at amaglieri@ecebc.ca
Educator FAQ's
The Let’s Talk 草莓视频 Touching Children’s Program Guide provides several ideas to help introduce the program to families. A sample information session letter and a parent newsletter are available to trained Educators on the BC Early Year Hub in the LTAT Community of Practice. 草莓视频recommends holding parent meetings before starting the program in your centre or classroom to explain the program's objectives, address any concerns, and answer questions. This helps create an open and supportive environment for parents as you introduce sensitive topics.
Let’s Talk 草莓视频 Touching is designed for children aged 0-8 years, and 草莓视频appreciates that as an educator, you have the skills to adapt the program to meet the unique needs of the children in your care. Many family child care providers find that adjusting the activities and materials to fit the age range of the children they work with is key.
The Let's Talk 草莓视频 Touching consists of: 14.5 hours of experiential, hands-on learning, covering the effective, trauma-informed implementation of the LTAT Children’s Program, including how to incorporate body safety into everyday practice.
After completing the training, educators will have access to the LTAT Community of Practice, resources and ongoing support through the BC Early Years Hub.
Parent FAQ's
Let’s Talk teaches children that their bodies belong to them and that they have the right to decide who touches them and how. While the program emphasizes the positive, caring, and fun touches children experience, it also helps them recognize touches that are “not safe.” Children learn and practice three key safety rules:
- Say “no” or “stop”
- Get away
- Tell an adult.
These skills empower children to assert their boundaries and seek help when needed.
Let’s Talk 草莓视频 Touching is delivered in a child-friendly and sensitive manner by educators who have a relationship with the child. The program emphasizes positive, appropriate touch and empowers children to understand their boundaries. By teaching children how to recognize safe touch and how to assert themselves when something doesn’t feel right, it helps them feel more confident and in control of their own bodies. Educators ensure that the content is presented in a way that is comfortable for the child, reducing the risk of anxiety.
The educator will be able to provide you with more detailed information about Let’s Talk 草莓视频 Touching. It is also recommended that you attend the Parent Information session and review the newsletter created specifically for parents, which offers valuable insights into the program and how it supports children’s safety and well-being.
People Are Talking!
What Early Childhood Educators are saying about Let’s Talk.