Curriculum Development
"I have been proud to be on the Advisory Board for Kidpower for over a decade. I have seen first-hand the effectiveness of the Kidpower training in building community safety and in giving people effective skills for preventing domestic and relationship violence, abuse, and abduction. The pilot training that Kidpower provided for our officers was extremely useful in giving them more tools as 'front-line' social workers who are often needing to help people in crisis."
Manny Solano, Chief of Police
Watsonville Police Department
By adapting and expanding our curriculum, Kidpower provides both training and educational materials that show people how to use our Successful Practice Method for teaching People Safety skills.
We make our curriculum available through our articles, publications, podcasts, and videos as well as our training programs for professionals, parents and caregivers, and instructors.
In response to specific needs, we initiate special projects to further our curriculum development. For example, after receiving repeated requests by teachers working with people with developmental disabilities who have little or no speech, we created the Bridges to People Safety Skills Project. Thanks to a three-year grant from the Special Hope Foundation, we have been able to start the needs assessment phase of this project. The result will be new workbooks, training, and micro-videos showing specific skills that will be made available for free over the Internet.