Help Stop Child Abuse - Teach Kids Safety Skills
Most child abuse, bullying, kidnapping, and other dangers can be prevented if children have strong "People Safety" skills. Join the Kidpower Skill-A-Day Challenge by starting to teach a Kidpower skill a day that can help to prevent child abuse. You can also participate by sending the Kidpower skills to people who have a child in their lives.
If you are on Facebook, please join our free online event, which lists all the skills, and share with your fans and friends.
Please become a fan of our Kidpower Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kidpower/60269356666?ref=s
All skills will be shown and illustrated on our blog at http://www.kidpower.org/blog/ and people can also email Count Me In to challenge@kidpower.org.
Most child abuse can be prevented and stopped without scaring children 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 articles, videos, podcasts, publications, and workshops that show how to protect children from child abuse.
"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
Featured Articles
Here is a sampling of Kidpower articles addressing many aspects of how you can protect children from child abuse.
Videos
Podcasts
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.