Learning Kidpower skills can help parents worry less and lead their kids more confidently
Parents and Caregivers
What will I learn in a Parent/Caregiver Workshop?
What if I can't get to a workshop?
We’re excited to work with you, and at the same time, our goal is to help parents and caregivers feel prepared and confident leading their children’s People Safety skill development on their own, every day.
People Safety skills are social skills. They work as tools that people of all ages and abilities can use to prevent problems and strengthen relationships. Parents and caregivers are in the best position to build these skills, and we’re here to help you learn how.
"Your presentation gave us hope that we can help our children be safe in what sometimes seems like a very frightening world."
What will I learn in a Parent/Caregiver Workshop?
In this adults-only workshop, parents, teachers, and other caregivers learn the Kidpower approach for introducing and practicing People Safety skills with young people.
The topics addressed include:
- What adults need to know about personal safety for children
- Kidpower’s Underlying Principle about making choices that put safety ahead of embarrassment, inconvenience or offense
- How to teach your child skills that can prevent most bullying, molestation, assault, and abduction without creating fear
- How to coach children so they are successful in practicing safety skills
- How to make a safety plan for everywhere children go
- How to establish a common language about safety within your family
- How to advocate for your child’s emotional and physical safety
How do we teach the skills?
Through discussion and hands-on practice, participants find answers to the questions, “How can we teach our younger children to be safe without scaring them? How can we prepare our older children to balance their need for increasing independence with their safety?”
Participants learn how to build these basic People Safety skills into their everyday parenting and guidance of children so that they can help improve the safety and quality of their children’s interactions with both strangers and people they know.
Because this is an adults-only program, participants have time and space to ask questions and discuss their questions and concerns.
Parents of children and youth from 0-18 years of age have found the workshop useful. Some parents even take these workshops when they are still pregnant.
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What if I can't get to a workshop?
Our library offers a wealth of free resources, including articles, videos, podcasts, our e-newsletter, and our blog, which provide tools for understanding and using the skills we teach.
Our store has publications for sale including our Safety Comics, our Kidpower Guide eBook, our Kidpower Book for Caring Adults, our cartoon-illustrated Teaching Kits, our Relationship Safety Book, and our Comprehensive Program Manuals. These materials show how to teach People Safety skills and concepts to the important children, teens, and adults in your life.
If you don’t have a Kidpower center close to your community, consider setting up a new one and training as an instructor.
We also train teachers and other professionals to include Kidpower in their lessons and programs so that children everywhere can learn Kidpower!