Stranger Safety
Assault & Kidnapping Prevention
Stranger Safety
Assault & Kidnapping Prevention
Kidpower teaches Stranger Safety – NOT ‘stranger danger’. We developed this approach in 1989, and every year, we are happy to see more safety programs worldwide choosing to follow our lead!
When adults learn the Kidpower approach to Stranger Safety, then making Stranger Safety habits part of their daily life with kids can become as easy as making manners, hygiene, and traffic safety habits part of daily life.
The Kidpower approach makes it easier, more fun, and less scary to help kids be safer, more confident, and less fearful about safety with strangers.
We teach ways to introduce, use, and practice Stranger Safety at all ages – starting from early childhood and, for older children and teens, including emergency-only physical self-defense skills as a last resort to escape and get to safety.
Use these resources to get started – and contact us with questions or to take or plan a workshop!
Stranger Safety Resources
Workshops • Books • Articles • Videos • Contact Us
Find videos, lessons, practice guides, and activities you can use now in the Online Learning Center – or choose a printed publication you can use to help your kids, students, and loved ones learn age-appropriate, ability-appropriate social-emotional safety skills! Contact us with any questions or needs.
Stranger Safety Video Courses and Live Workshops
Our programs teach people of all ages assault and kidnapping prevention skills. We also teach most of these skills in our Kidpower workshops and in the Kidpower Online Learning Center self-paced video courses. Start using them on your own or to help your students, clients, loved ones, or others build skills to be safe.
Learn strategies to protect yourself and others from the global leaders in social-emotional safety skills education! You can:
- Enroll in Online Learning Center self-paced courses – Full Circle Safety is just one of many!
- Join a live ‘community’ workshop open for public enrollment
- Organize a live online ‘private’ Stranger Safety Workshop led by one of our instructors
- Find an in-person workshop where available – see locations
Every workshop is unique! In the planning stage, we listen and ask questions about your needs and priorities. Then, we provide a service tailored just for you. Browse through some of our workshop options in our Flyer Gallery.
Books with stranger safety and kidnapping prevention skills
Kidpower Children’s Safety Comics Color Edition
Now in color! This book answers the question, “How do I teach my kids to be safe with people without scaring them?” Have fun sharing the social stories together with your kids, and they’ll be learning powerful skills. Young children will ask you to read it again and again!
Learn More | Buy on Amazon | Buy Digitally
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One Strong Move
This cartoon-illustrated book provides important self-defense lessons showing how to avoid and escape from an attack for adults and teens and for use by adults in teaching children.
Learn More | Buy on Amazon
Your Amazon purchases help Kidpower!
The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults
This inspiring, comprehensive guide puts Kidpower’s over 30 years of experience at the fingertips of parents, educators, and all adults who care about protecting children and teens.
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Your Amazon purchases help Kidpower!
Book 3: Check First & Think First
Book 3 of 6 in our Kidpower Teaching Book Series, designed to make it easy and fun for adults to use our curriculum with their classes, programs, and families, focuses on stranger safety and strategies for being safe in public.
Learn More | Buy on Amazon
Your Amazon purchases help Kidpower!
Kidpower Children’s Safety Comics Color Edition
Now in color! This book answers the question, “How do I teach my kids to be safe with people without scaring them?” Have fun sharing the social stories together with your kids, and they’ll be learning powerful skills. Young children will ask you to read it again and again!
Learn More | Buy on Amazon | Buy Digitally
Your Amazon purchases help Kidpower!
One Strong Move
This cartoon-illustrated book provides important self-defense lessons showing how to avoid and escape from an attack for adults and teens and for use by adults in teaching children.
Learn More | Buy on Amazon
Your Amazon purchases help Kidpower!
The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults
This inspiring, comprehensive guide puts Kidpower’s over 30 years of experience at the fingertips of parents, educators, and all adults who care about protecting children and teens.
Learn More | Buy on Amazon | Buy Digitally
Your Amazon purchases help Kidpower!
Book 3: Check First & Think First
Book 3 of 6 in our Kidpower Teaching Book Series, designed to make it easy and fun for adults to use our curriculum with their classes, programs, and families, focuses on stranger safety and strategies for being safe in public.
Learn More | Buy on Amazon
Your Amazon purchases help Kidpower!
Kidnapping Prevention and Stranger Safety Articles
Additional kidnapping prevention and stranger safety articles
- When Kids Learn About a Tragic Kidnapping
- Adults Need To Know: Personal Safety for Children
- Just in Case: What Children Need to Know if They Cannot Get Away at First
- How to Pick a Good Self-Defense Program
See more articles >>
Stranger Safety and Kidnapping Prevention Videos and Podcasts
We’re here to answer your questions, suggest resources, and give you more information about how to take or plan a class. Contact us today!