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The Proudfoot Group has launched the AIP Academy Learning Center, a dedicated online training platform now live at aipacademy.net. The platform brings together three distinct training programs — AIP Academy, the Appalachian Hope Academy course catalog, and the RoseShield™ PDT Portal — under one credential-gated environment designed to grow continuously as TPG’s training portfolio expands.
AIP Academy delivers practitioner-built courses for legal professionals, child safety organizations, and mission-driven teams — purpose-designed for each client’s workforce, compliance requirements, and delivery timeline. The Appalachian Hope Academy course catalog offers free K–12 digital safety curriculum developed in partnership with the AHA Foundation, covering every grade level from elementary through high school with a dedicated parent course that meets North Carolina HB 959 requirements.
The RoseShield™ PDT Portal provides purpose-designed professional certification and skills programs for organizations operating on RoseShield™ powered platforms, including the School Protection Program, World Vision International deployments, and RoseChat. All portal programs require verified partner credentials.
In addition to its growing catalog, TPG designs and builds bespoke online courses for companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and professional associations — from AI governance and legal ethics to safeguarding and operational training. Organizations interested in custom course development are invited to contact TPG at info@theproudfootgroup.com.
ChildSafe.dev has launched ShieldConnect, a supervised social and messaging platform purpose-built for children and youth — powered by RoseShield™ AI and certified through the ChildSafe.dev compliance framework. ShieldConnect gives young people a safe environment for communication, video calls, and peer connection, with institutional-grade oversight built in from the ground up.
Unlike consumer messaging apps that retrofit safety features onto platforms designed for adults, ShieldConnect was architected from day one around child protection. Every contact, conversation, and call passes through RoseShield™’s on-device and network-level AI detection — monitoring for grooming patterns, channel evasion attempts, off-platform redirection, cross-age contact risks, and exploitation indicators in real time. All flagged activity is routed to verified moderators through the ShieldConnect Moderator Portal, which provides full conversation logs, risk scoring, behavioral pattern analysis, and case management tools.
The platform is designed for institutional deployment — NGOs, schools, youth programs, and international organizations that need a verified-safe communication channel for the young people in their care. The World Vision International integration demonstrated in ShieldConnect’s moderator dashboard shows exactly how cross-program youth communication — including international connections between WVI cohorts — can be supervised, logged, and protected without sacrificing the authentic peer connection that makes youth programs effective.
ShieldConnect expands the ChildSafe.dev product family alongside RoseShield™ (on-device child safety AI) and the ChildSafe.dev compliance API — completing a full-stack institutional child safety infrastructure from device to platform to communication. The Proudfoot Group serves as ChildSafe.dev’s strategic business development and go-to-market partner. Institutional and NGO inquiries welcome at info@theproudfootgroup.com.
The Proudfoot Group has brokered a strategic partnership between the Online Safety Foundation Uganda (OSFU) and ChildSafe.dev, Inc., bringing RoseShield™ on-device child safety technology to schools in Kampala for the first time. The partnership launches with a structured pilot at Sayidina Abubakar Secondary School — with OSFU's Dr. Sulaiman Kawooya, Director of E-Safety, leading ground-level implementation alongside ChildSafe.dev's technology team.
The pilot arrives at a critical moment for Uganda's capital. Uganda's 2024 National Census found that children under 18 make up 50% of the country's 45.9 million people. Kampala carries the highest secondary school enrollment rate in the country at 52%, according to UNICEF — and as internet access expands rapidly across Kampala's school network, children's exposure to online grooming, exploitation, and harmful content is growing without corresponding protection infrastructure in place.
RoseShield™ is built for exactly this environment. Its on-device AI architecture requires no consistent cloud connectivity, making it deployable in schools with variable internet infrastructure. All threat detection — grooming patterns, age solicitation, explicit content, off-platform contact requests — processes locally on the device, with zero data collection. The pilot will establish the deployment model and MEL framework for scaling across Kampala's broader school network, with national deployment a stated objective of the partnership.
Uganda's approximately 15 million school-age children represent one of the most significant addressable markets for child digital safety technology on the African continent. The OSFU partnership positions ChildSafe.dev as the first on-device child safety platform with an operational institutional footprint in East Africa — and establishes the evidence base for replication across the region. TPG will continue to serve as ChildSafe.dev's strategic business development and partnership layer for East African deployment.
The Proudfoot Group's publishing imprint, TPG Publishing, has released the first three books in the AI-Powered Professional Series — all available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback editions. The AI-Powered Paralegal Student (Book 1) is designed for paralegal certificate and AAS programs and integrates AI tools across the paralegal curriculum from day one. The AI-Powered Paralegal (Book 2) is a comprehensive field manual for working paralegals covering prompt engineering, legal research, document drafting, case management, and professional responsibility compliance. The AI-Powered Law Student (Book 3) covers the full arc of legal education — from law school application through the bar exam and the first years of practice — with the professional responsibility framework built in from the start. All three titles are authored by Dr. Gosch Loy Ehlers III, attorney, Marine Corps veteran, and legal technology educator. A fourth title, The AI-Powered Attorney, is in development. The series is available at theproudfootgroup.com/tpg-publishing and on Amazon.
TPG Publishing has announced the forthcoming launch of the AI-Powered Professional Academy — a profession-specific online training platform built directly from the AI-Powered Professional Series. The Academy will deliver practice-ready AI courses for attorneys, paralegals, paralegal students, and law students, with completion certificates and institutional licensing available for law firms, paralegal programs, and continuing education providers. Each course is designed inside the ethical obligations and regulatory frameworks that govern professional practice — covering ABA Model Rules, NALA canons, and professional responsibility standards alongside the practical AI workflows. Accreditation applications are in process. AIP Academy is coming soon at the TPG Learning Center.
The Proudfoot Group has formalized a strategic business development partnership with Native Brigade, the veteran-led technology company behind Sentinel Guard™ and Adams Watch™. Under the agreement, TPG will serve as Native Brigade's strategic business development and partnership layer — connecting its child protection and community safety platforms with government agencies, law enforcement organizations, and institutional partners. The partnership expands TPG's child protection technology portfolio and positions Native Brigade for accelerated deployment across tribal nations and underserved communities.
The Digital Child Safe Ecosystem™ (DCSE™) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Liaura, strengthening the DCSE™'s on-the-ground implementation capacity for the Zimbabwe pilot deployment. Liaura brings established programmatic infrastructure and community relationships that expand the DCSE™'s reach across the Phase 1 cohort. The partnership is a key milestone in TPG's effort to build a robust network of implementation partners capable of supporting national-scale child protection deployments across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Proudfoot Group announces the formal launch of the Digital Child Safe Ecosystem™ (DCSE™) Zimbabwe pilot — a comprehensive, multi-layer child protection deployment integrating RoseShield™ on-device AI, ChildSafe.dev platform safeguarding, structured digital literacy curriculum, and community safety infrastructure. CODAZIM serves as the programmatic authority holder for the deployment, which targets a large Phase 1 cohort of school-age children. The launch marks the first national-scale deployment of the DCSE™ framework and establishes the evidence base for replication across additional countries.
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