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We can protect children from most child abuse without scaring them or overwhelming them with explicit details about all the bad things that might happen. The Kidpower method shows how to give children successful practice in setting clear and appropriate boundaries in everyday life in a way that is fun, successful, and effective. Children learn how to stop unwanted touch and teasing and how to be persistent until they get help.
As adults, we can teach our children Road Safety without talking about exactly what happens to your body when you get hit by a car. We can teach Water Safety without going into detail about what it means to drown. And we can teach People Safety skills without describing the terrible things people sometimes do to children. Scroll down for Kidpower's Library of Articles, Blog, Videos, Podcasts, Publications, and Workshops that show how to protect children from child abuse.
Featured Articles
- Worthy of Trust – What Organizations Need to Do To Protect Children From Harm
- Kidpower Safety Tips: Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse
- What if a Sex Offender is Living in Our Neighborhood?
- What Kinds of Secrets Are Okay for Children to Keep – And What Kinds Are Not?
- Safe and Unsafe Bribes
- Touch in Healthy Relationships
- Bullying, Child Abuse, and Violence – Kids Often Talk When Adults Really Listen
- How to Intervene – The Safety of Kids Is Everybody's Business
- How to Practice Kidpower Every Day
- Personal Safety to Help Stop Domestic Violence
- What Adults Need to Know About Personal Safety for Children
- Why Affection and Teasing Should Be a Child’s Choice
- How to Pick a Good Self-Defense Program
- Our Kidpower Skill-a-Day Challenge, now in Spanish and English, only takes 5-10 minutes every day and can empower you and those you care about with lifelong safety skills
Videos, Webinars and Podcasts
- Videos of Kidpower & Positive-Coaching Alliance Webinar on Child Abuse in Youth Sports
- Videos on Establishing Touch and Boundaries, Checking First to Be Safe, and Why Kidpower? Everybody Deserves to Feel Safe!
- Interview with Kidpower Executive Director Irene van der Zande discussing Bullying Prevention on the San Francisco Talk Show View from the Bay
- Podcasts on Enduring Affection, Safety Tools for Safety Problems, Tattling vs. Telling, What is People Safety?, and Your Internal Safety Alarm
Publications
Our store offers a number of publications showing how to teach children to be safe without being upsetting. We have cartoon-illustrated Safety Comics that adults can read with their children, Teaching Kits for teaching skills to groups, our Kidpower Guide for Parents and Teachers e-book, and Training Manuals.
Workshops - Hands-on Learning Experiences
to Develop Skills That Can Prevent Most Child Abuse
Kidpower offers workshops and resources that prepare our students to protect themselves from potentially harmful experiences with people, including child abuse. We serve children, teens, and adults, including seniors and people with special needs. We work with schools and other organizations to arrange workshops that are specifically tailored to the needs of each group and individual.
If there is no Kidpower Center near you, we have publications for sale in our store that adults can use to teach kids how to stay safe and act wisely to prevent child abuse.
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"The Kidpower program stands out from other child abuse prevention programs due to a variety of factors including: content integrity, developmental and situational appropriateness, focus on skills and action, and efficiency and practicality. We are most impressed by Kidpower's ability to address effectively the fact that most abuse happens with people children know. Kidpower gives children, caregivers, and professionals working with children real skills that can prevent that abuse. We strongly endorse Kidpower programs for young people from all walks of life and, perhaps more importantly, Kidpower programs for parents and professionals working with young people."
James Crawford, M.D. and Susan Murray, LCSW
Oakland Children’s Hospital Child Protection Center