Good-Touch/Bad-Touch® is the only curriculum, which uses this title and which has been Copyrighted and Trademarked to protect it. This website is its home site. Good-Touch/Bad-Touch has been in existence since 1983, was authored by Pam Church, and has been revised 11 times to stay up-to-date. Programs using the words good touch bad touch to describe their prevention efforts may be in violation of trademark laws. Individuals looking for the original, fully-researched Good-Touch/Bad-Touch curriculum should not be confused by other programs.

Childhelp® exists to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. We do so by focusing our efforts in the areas of treatment, prevention, and research. Childhelp® Good-Touch/Bad-Touch® hopes to eliminate child abuse by bringing prevention education to children and adults everywhere. To find out more about Childhelp®, Inc, please go to www.childhelp.org

The Good-Touch/Bad-Touch curriculum is positive and research-based. It is a curriculum that meets stringent educational criteria and has been field-tested with hundreds of children and over 6000 educators. It has on-going revisions to keep it fresh and current with research, has on-going evaluations, and is being used in most states. Educators value the use of pre and post-testing to determine children's learning. Scores are used as a class grade and fit into the school's need for accountability. Parents respect that the Good-Touch/Bad-Touch teachers have been trained and follow the curriculum as designed. They appreciate the especially designed booklet allowing them to reinforce the children's lessons at home. Everyone appreciates the new language, skills and knowledge that children learn to help protect themselves.

Pam Church began the creation of the Good-Touch/Bad-Touch curriculum in 1983 when she learned that she had children who had been suffering sexual abuse without her knowledge. Her anger fueled her need to be part of the solution of childhood sexual abuse. She created the Good-Touch/Bad-Touch curriculum for children and training for educators because nothing else she found felt comfortable to her as a mother or a professional.

In 2006, Pam and her staff joined up with the Childhelp team. She felt that by working with Childhelp, the Good-Touch/Bad-Touch program could expand world-wide to reach hundreds of thousands of educators and millions of children. This acquisition by Childhelp would now bring together the forces of treatment and prevention in an attempt to eliminate child abuse forever.

General Purpose:

• eliminate childhood abuse
• reduce the trauma or negative impact of abuse, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and bullying of all types in children's lives
• empower teaching professionals in their efforts to help stop abuse
• build self-esteem about everyone's right to be safe
• help create a safe environment for children