Sexual abuse has significant detrimental effects on young people, leading to long-term effects that cause social exclusion in terms of negative impacts on mental and emotional health, development and wellbeing, throughout key parts of their lives with severe knock-on results. The prevalence of sexual abuse towards children and young people is a significant societal challenge in Europe, identified by UN Special Protection Measures and the Council of Europe, which estimates between 10% and 25% of young people experience sexual abuse stating that ‘available data suggest that 1 in 5 children in Europe are victims of some form of sexual violence’. The overall aim of Keep Me Safe - https://keepmesafe.eu/ - was to build the capacity of its key target group - European Youth Workers working with young people aged 13 to 18 – to better support young people to identify and tackle manifestations of sexual abuse...Its specific objectives were to: • Contribute to a transnational capacitation of Youth Workers (through the Keep Me Safe Youth Workers programme) on awareness raising, prevention, early detection and disclosure of sexual abuse among young people with a new transferable, European level pedagogical framework of professional development. •Directly empower young people to tackle sexual abuse and support their peers by equipping youth workers to facilitate and support young people to counteract sexual abuse through a peer-to-peer support strategy• Contribute to the EU level transfer of knowledge and practices on youth work related to the prevention and protection from sexual abuse of through user-friendly digital learning resource (Keep Me Safe Digital App)• Promote transnational debate, dialogue,KMS built upon the DG Justice funded JudEx+ project (2015-2017), which successfully developed a unique methodology and CPD training programme to promote a child friendly judicial system throughout Europe developing the skillsets of professionals working with children surviving sexual violence. Usually the weight of recognising signs of sexual abuse is given to adult figures: parents and guardians, as well as primary care givers, teachers, mentors and community leaders. Initiatives aimed at tackling the situation tend to focus upon professional adults in their roles in addressing a young person’s sexual abuse experience, developing the capacity of professionals or staff working with youth, investing mainly in people with a certain position of authority. Mobilising the JudEx+ ethos, best practice and achievements, KMS offers a new transnational methodology to support youth workers to both increase their own knowledge, awareness and safeguarding strategies, while creating a youth-led Peer Support Network. KMS empowered young people’s inter-support skills, providing guidance on support mechanisms when a friend makes a sexual abuse disclosure, what to do when this occurs, while also ensuring their own safety, preventing inter-peer abuse. KMS directly engaged over 300 individuals in its activities, with 164 youth workers and youth peers as direct participants in the piloting and validation programme and 160 external stakeholders in attendance at the project’s programme of Multiplier Events. Moreover, the activities and results of the project were proactively disseminated to over 5,000 stakeholder connections through, social media bulletins and specifically-produced e-zine newsletters and local stakeholder dialogue. KMS was implemented by a strong youth-focused partnership and network comprising 7 organisations across 6 European countries (UK, CY, SI, BG, FR, DK) with experience of KA2 Strategic partnership projects and the motivation to mobilise the enhanced skillsets of a European network of practitioners in the KMS concept. KMS designed three innovative intellectual outputs ( IO1 Keep Me Safe Youth Workers Development Curriculum; IO2 Keep Me Safe Youth Peers Training Programme; IO3 Keep Me Safe Mobile Digital Learning App) that increase the youth sector’s knowledge, awareness and civic participation in addressing sexual abuse amongst 13 to 18 year olds – both at the youth worker level through comprehensive role and competency specification, as well as amongst young people through active peer-to-peer engagement, while formalising a unique training methodology/curriculum aimed at developing Youth Peers actively raising awareness against sexual abuse. The KMS programme contributes to the Erasmus+ Youth priorities of Promoting quality youth work and Promoting youth empowerment, by developing a unique alternative pathway for early detection of sexual abuse as well as the prevention of sexual violence amongst young people. The role of the KMS peer raises awareness on support to help youth understand abuse and its signs - addressing the Erasmus+ priority of Social Inclusion, empowering vulnerable young people to recognise and address abuse.