Survivor-led · Brain-science-informed · Prevention-driven
Prevent abusebefore a childhas to survive it.
PWR 360 connects brain science, survivor leadership, and community wisdom to prevent child abuse.
PWR 360 is pioneering a brain science intervention system that turns research into practical tools to prevent abuse and transform institutions.
Throughout our work, “educator” includes academic teachers and athletic coaches.
Find your place in prevention
The essential question
Why do institutions act only
after a child has been harmed?
We do not wait for a fire before designing fire safety.
We do not wait for a collision before designing road safety.
Child safety should work the same way.
PWR 360 starts before harm.
The system shift
Most safeguarding systems become active once something has already happened.
PWR 360 helps institutions recognize risk, close safety gaps, and build protection in before a child is harmed.
Most systems today
Reactive 01
Harm Occurs
A child is harmed.
Reactive 02
Reaction
The system responds after harm.
PWR 360 · the prevention progression
Stage 01
Recognition
Noticing patterns earlier.
Stage 02
Intervention
Acting on what is recognized.
Stage 03
Risk Mitigated
Reducing conditions that enable abuse.
Stage 04
Prevention
Stopping harm before it occurs.
Stage 05
System Design
Building safety into the system.
Child Architecture™
Child Architecture™ builds abuse prevention into how adults teach, coach, lead, and respond. It helps children understand their boundaries and adults recognize and respect them. At its heart is a child's trust in the people meant to protect them. Behind that trust is a question they should never have to ask:
Can I trust you to notice when something is wrong and protect me before I’m hurt?
The framework is in development. Its practical application and evaluation will guide how it evolves.
What PWR 360 builds
PWR 360 helps build systems that can:
We work upstream, strengthening the adults, environments, reporting pathways and institutional systems surrounding children before harm occurs.
Recognize
Adults learn to notice concerning behaviour, boundary breaches and patterns earlier.
Mitigate
Institutions reduce the conditions that increase vulnerability and risk.
Report
Build clear, accessible and trusted pathways for raising concerns.
Respond
Equip adults to know what to do when something is wrong.
Learn
Treat concerns as patterns to learn from, not isolated events.
Prevent
Redesign systems so known vulnerabilities are less likely to recur.
How we work
This is PWR 360's approach.
01
Listen
We start by understanding the people, relationships, strengths and safety concerns already present in a setting.
02
Build together
Survivor knowledge, brain science and community perspective shape the conversation. Nothing is designed for a setting without the people in it.
03
Put prevention into practice
Together we identify the learning, reporting and accountability practices that suit that setting.
04
Learn and strengthen
We gather feedback and improve the approach over time rather than leaving it as a one-time document.
What is available now, and what is not
Available now: a conversation about your setting, and a first review of current practice with you. In development: Child Architecture™, our learning materials, and adult training. Proposed, not yet running: the Cultural Nations Bridge Pilot described below. We will say plainly which of these apply to you before any work begins.
Prevent · Wellbeing · Resilience
Three outcomes. One prevention system.
Prevent
Recognize warning signs, and teach and respect the boundaries that keep abuse, grooming and institutional silence from taking hold.
Wellbeing
Create safe environments where children can grow, learn and thrive, free from abuse, through Child Architecture™.
Resilience
Equip children with the confidence to understand boundaries and seek support, and adults with the tools to build and uphold safe institutions.
Resilience does not mean asking children to endure unsafe systems.
It means adults build systems capable of recognizing signs of abuse before harm occurs, closing loopholes that make children vulnerable, and changing outdated models that have failed.
Why brain science matters
Brain science helps us understand why someone freezes instead of speaking up, stays silent out of fear, or manipulates a leader’s trust. PWR 360 turns that understanding into tools to recognize abuse and protect children.
Recognize patterns of coercion, boundary testing, misuse of authority, and grooming that can make children vulnerable. Focus on concerning behaviours, take disclosures seriously, and act through appropriate safeguarding pathways.
How knowledge systems come together
We draw from peer-reviewed research.
We draw from peer-reviewed research on how abuse cultures function, how stress and authority influence behaviour, and strategies to halt abuse and strengthen child safety. We translate relevant findings into practical learning for adults and institutions in education and sport.
The research is published and peer-reviewed. PWR 360's translation of it into learning and tools is in development.
Two-Eyed Learning
A Two-Eyed Learning lens applied to brain health, child safety, and sport, bringing cultural knowledge, wisdom, and lived experience into dialogue with brain science.
Indigenous knowledge remains community-directed, not an add-on to neuroscience. PWR 360 does not claim ownership of it.
Explore the research
The published work we draw from.
These are established, citable sources. Our interpretation of them, and their application in Child Architecture™, is our own and is still in development.
Felitti, V. J., Anda, R. F., et al. · 1998
Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
The study that made adverse childhood experiences widely measurable, showing a graded relationship between childhood abuse and later health risks.
Read the sourceShonkoff, J. P., & Garner, A. S. · 2012
The Lifelong Effects of Early Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress
Pediatrics
Explains how early adversity and chronic stress can affect development, and why stable, responsive relationships with adults matter.
Read the sourceTeicher, M. H., & Samson, J. A. · 2016
Annual Research Review: Enduring neurobiological effects of childhood abuse and neglect
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Reviews neuroimaging findings on abuse, neglect and brain development. We draw on it to explain, in ordinary language, why adult responses matter.
Read the sourceWorld Health Organization · 2020
Global status report on preventing violence against children
WHO
A country-level view of what prevention looks like in policy and practice, and where implementation is thinnest.
Read the source
Each source is peer-reviewed or published by a recognized public health authority. None of them endorse PWR 360, and Child Architecture™ is not presented as scientifically validated.
Each path looks different
What this could mean for you.
Schools and educators
- Why this matters to you
- A school day is a child's environment. When adults know what to notice and how to act, protection stops depending on one person's courage.
- How we can work together
- We look with you at how your school teaches boundaries, supervises relationships, responds to concerns, and keeps those practices in place when staff change.
Start a conversation about your school, classroom or district.
Start a conversationSport organizations
- Why this matters to you
- Sport brings closeness, travel, changing rooms and adult authority into a child's week. Those conditions can be designed to protect.
- How we can work together
- We work with clubs, coaches and sport bodies on coaching practice, supervision, reporting pathways and oversight from season to season.
Start a conversation about your club, league or sport body.
Start a conversationCommunities and caregivers
- Why this matters to you
- Caregivers and community members are often the first to notice something wrong, and the least supported to act on it.
- How we can work together
- We bring survivor knowledge, brain science and community perspective together, with community direction over what is used and how.
Start a conversation about what your community wants to strengthen.
Start a conversationResearchers
- Why this matters to you
- Prevention needs evidence that reaches practice, not only publication.
- How we can work together
- We collaborate on translating existing research into plain-language learning for adults, and we state where the research ends and our interpretation begins.
Start a conversation about a research or review collaboration.
Start a conversationFunders and partners
- Why this matters to you
- Prevention is hard to fund because its results are quiet and slow. That is exactly why it needs long-term partners.
- How we can work together
- We scope defined pieces of the work with you, agree how progress will be reported, and keep every claim tied to what has actually been done.
Explore a funding or partnership conversation.
Start a conversationFor funders
Help build prevention that lasts.
PWR 360 brings survivor leadership, brain science, and community knowledge together to strengthen the systems surrounding children. We are seeking partners who share our commitment to practical, accountable, long-term prevention.
Explore a funding partnershipHow progress is shared: reporting is agreed with each funder before work starts, so expectations are clear on both sides. PWR 360 Foundation is a federally incorporated Canadian not-for-profit corporation. We do not represent donations as tax receiptable unless charitable status is separately confirmed.
What support would make possible
Pilot development
Groundwork for the proposed Cultural Nations Bridge Pilot, shaped with Indigenous community partners.
Research translation
Turning established research into plain-language learning that educators and coaches can use.
Long-term partnership
Multi-year support so prevention practice stays in place instead of lapsing after one season.
These are intended uses of support, not commitments to specific budgets, projects or outcomes. No funder has been confirmed at this stage.
Proposed pilot · Seeking partners
Cultural Nations Bridge Pilot
Brain health. Cultural knowledge. Safe sport.
PWR 360's proposed six-week pilot brings Indigenous knowledge, brain science, and safe sport into conversation to support Indigenous youth, caregivers, coaches, and communities. Through movement, relationships, and practical learning, the pilot explores boundaries, wellbeing, belonging, and the conditions young people need to thrive.
Community voices and authority are essential from the beginning. We are seeking Indigenous community partners, funders, researchers, and organizations interested in helping shape and support this work.
This pilot is proposed. No Nation, community, school, funder or researcher has been confirmed as a participant, and community partners hold authority over cultural knowledge, participation, implementation and how it is used. The pilot is not presented as proven, and we make no clinical claims.
Speaking and conferences
Bring the PWR 360 conversation to your stage.
Invite the PWR 360 team to bring survivor leadership, brain science, community knowledge, and child safety into your next conference, panel, or event.
Request a speaking engagementThis is an inquiry, not a booking. Please use the form to share the event name, date, location or virtual format, audience, and topic. We will reply to confirm whether we can take part. Availability, fees and any engagement are confirmed only in writing.
Topics
- Preventing abuse before harm occurs
- Child Architecture™ and institutional responsibility
- Brain science, authority, and recognizing warning signs
- Survivor leadership and systems change
- Community, culture, and child wellbeing
Who leads the work
Leadership built to prioritize child safety.
PWR 360 connects survivors of educator abuse, Indigenous and community wisdom, brain science, and systems leadership to expose patterns, challenge silence, and build child safety in.
Shabeka Taylor
Founder & President
Survivor, former athlete, coach and systems builder leading PWR 360’s prevention strategy and the development of Child Architecture™.
Ciqaaʔaksup Hoeft
Chief Executive Officer
Indigenous wellness leader, cultural practitioner and child and youth advocate, providing strategic and values-driven leadership across organizational development, community partnerships and program growth.
Jennifer Fraser, PhD
Brain Science Translation & Learning Lead
A survivor advocate, author, and writer for Psychology Today, Jennifer Fraser, PhD, translates research on the brain, bullying, abuse, and learning into accessible education.
Read Jennifer’s Psychology Today articlesPatient Zero Podcast
Join Shabeka Taylor and Jennifer Fraser, PhD, for conversations about abuse, brain science, institutional silence, and the people working to change what happens next.
Follow PWR 360 for launch updates.
The action
Build safer systems with us.
Tell us where you work and what you want to strengthen. Start a conversation about how PWR 360's developing prevention work could support your school, sport organization, or community.
In immediate danger
This form is for partnership and general inquiries only, not crisis response, counselling or investigation. If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services or child-protection authority right away. Please do not include sensitive details about abuse in this channel.
Safeguarding
Need help or want to report a concern?
PWR 360 is not a crisis service, a counselling service or an investigative body. If something is happening to a child, please go directly to the right service below.
If a child is in immediate danger
Call 911 in Canada, or your local emergency number. If you are outside Canada, contact your local emergency services.
To report a child-protection concern
Contact your provincial or territorial child protection authority, or your local police service. In Canada, concerns about online sexual exploitation or abuse of a child can also be reported at Cybertip.ca, Canada's national tipline.
If you are a survivor seeking support
Kids Help Phone offers free, confidential support 24/7 across Canada: call 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (kidshelpphone.ca). You can also reach a local survivor or victim service in your community.