About Operation250

Operation250 is a nonprofit, educational program aimed to protect youth from coming into contact with threatening materials and individuals online. Our work is predominately done with students and teachers through our workshop and lecture series offerings.

Op250 is a located in Eastern Massachusetts and has run programs throughout the state since 2017. The organization’s focus is on online safety and anti-hate. Below you will find the framework to the core of our organization, focusing on online decision-making, improved perspective taking, and improved problem-solving.

Goals & Aims

Our organizational goals are to keep youth safe from the threats and malevolence online. We take a variety of approached in doing this. Our cornerstone is our online safety and anti-hate workshop with students. This was designed with a purpose of keeping youth safe from hate and extremism online through improving online self-regulation, perspective taking, and problem solving. Additionally, we offer online safety specific lectures and programs that focus more heavily on online disinhibition and the many risks associated with this.

Our work with educators is focused on their curriculum and training. We work with educators to share research and lessons learned to help inform their internet safety curriculum. Additionally, we offer content building, such as readings, PowerPoints, and lessons for classroom use as well. Our goals and aims of this work are to inform existing educational efforts in classrooms with our findings, research, and practices in effort to increase educators’ confidence teaching these topics. Ultimately, by achieving these aims, we hope to improve youth online behaviors and decision-making.

To learn more about the organization, please visit our FAQs page about our organization.