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Safety & privacy

  • For trained adult peer support staff. Leave out names, schools, and any details that could identify a young person.
  • If a young person may be at risk, Sidekick AI will pause activity planning and help you involve your supervisor, the escalation chain, and crisis support, including 988.
  • This app keeps the conversation only in this page’s memory. It does not save conversations or log message bodies. Detected personal names are replaced with stand-ins and exact ages with broad age groups in your browser, then checked again on the server before messages are sent to the AI service. Detection can miss details; review the privacy preview and leave out identifying information.

The AI service may separately retain messages and replies under its own data-retention policies.

Full scope & safety guidance

If a young person is at risk right now

Supervisor and the Youth Era escalation chain first. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741. Reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect: Oregon Child Abuse Hotline 855-503-SAFE (7233). Immediate danger: 911.

Peer Sidekick is an internal design partner for trained Youth Era peer support specialists. It is not youth-facing, not a crisis service, not supervision, not a credential, and not clinical consultation.

Demo build, September 2026. Contains the archive, the proposed policy pack (pending chief approval), and Youth Era's public voice. No signed policy. No approved field insights. No youth data.

Internal. Trained Youth Era staff only. Not for youth.

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Examples & reference guides

When support moves into the DMs

Digital boundaries · Prepared example

The invitation and the bracelet

Gifts & invitations · Prepared example

A parent wants answers

Family & privacy · Prepared example

“Will you tell anyone?”

Substance use · Prepared example

When safety changes the conversation

Safety & escalation · Prepared example

Sidekick system prompt, production excerpt (19 July 2026)

Source-backed · Reference guide

Policy 1 - Crisis Recognition, Escalation, and Mandatory Reporting

Source-backed · Reference guide

Policy 2 - Personal Social Media and Digital Contact

Proposed policy · Reference guide

Policy 3 - Gifts, Tokens, and Community Invitations

Proposed policy · Reference guide

Policy 4 - Family Communication and Session Privacy

Proposed policy · Reference guide

Policy 5 - Minor Substance-Use Disclosures and Specialist Self-Disclosure

Proposed policy · Reference guide

Role card: what Sidekick is, what the specialist is, what neither is

Practice card · Reference guide

Self-disclosure card: who is this for?

Practice card · Reference guide

Visibility, not secrecy

Practice card · Reference guide

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