Educator Tools & Resources

Sharing sexually explicit content is prohibited on Snapchat, and we encourage Snapchatters to never send or save sensitive images – even of themselves. 

If one of your students finds themselves in a situation where their sensitive images are in the wrong hands, we encourage you to direct them to NCMEC’s Take It Down program, which Snap participates in.

Take It Down is designed to help teens prevent the online spread of their nude or sexually explicit images by having technology companies scan for and identify possible copies that may be circulating on their services. You can find more about the Take It Down program here. 

We also encourage you to share Snapchat’s educational resource called Safety Snapshot, which informs Snapchatters about potential online risks and how to avoid them. You can view our Safety Snapshot about the consequences of creating and sharing intimate images here.

At Snap, we are working diligently to stop drug dealers from abusing our platform, and are committed to educating students on Snapchat and the general public about the dangers of illicit drugs.

We have a dedicated in-app tool, Heads Up, that surfaces educational content from experts to Snapchatters if they try to search for drug-related content or a range of terms related to the synthetic opioid crisis, including fentanyl. 

We encourage you to share this content from our expert partners – which include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), Shatterproof, Truth Initiative, and the SAFE Project – with your students.

We know that sexual harms like sextortion and grooming are risks that teens face across a range of online platforms, and we’ve designed our service with protections to help combat these risks. If a Snapchatter experiences these types of behavior, we encourage them to use our in-app tools to immediately report it so we can take appropriate action. Snapchatters can report media, accounts, and individual or group messages directly from the conversation itself.

Educators can view and share our Safety Snapshot series on sexual risks and harms – short-form videos related to financial sextortion, sexting and the consequences of creating and sharing nudes, online grooming for sexual purposes, and child sex trafficking.

We also encourage educators to view and share educational content from the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the non-governmental organization Thorn.

Snapchat has an in-app mental health portal called Here for You, which provides in-app support to Snapchatters who may be experiencing a mental health or emotional crisis, or who may be curious to learn more about these issues and how they can help friends who may be dealing with them.

Here For You shows safety resources from experts when Snapchatters search for certain topics, including those related to anxiety, depression, stress, grief, suicidal thoughts, and bullying.

You can take a look and share with your students here.

If a student experiences bullying on Snapchat – or witnesses it happening to someone else – we encourage them to use our in-app tools to block the offending user and/or confidentially report the harmful content to our Trust & Safety teams, so they can take appropriate action.

If one of your students is experiencing this type of behavior, we recommend this resource.