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Stay up to date with our most recent news and resources!
3 Actions We Can Take NOW to Protect Kids from Bullying
Bullying is an emergency that requires urgent action. Kidpower International provides immediate solutions that parents, teachers, and other adults can...
“Now I’m not afraid of recess!” Please donate to Kidpower for Bullying Prevention Month
"Now I'm not afraid of recess!" Thanks for Kidpower Supporters like you, parents can now worry less about their children's safety! "Avery’s worst day? When kids switched off his...
“NOW we know how to handle cyberbullying!” Please donate to Kidpower for Bullying Prevention Month
"Now we know how to handle cyberbully!" Thanks for Kidpower Supporters like you, we know how to help our child be safe online. Every family needs these skills! "Trolling,...
For Bullying Prevention Month: 3 Tips To Protect Kids From Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying can be devastating. For Bullying Prevention Month this October, Kidpower International provides essential ways parents, teachers, and youth advocates can help kids learn how to cope with electronic aggression.
Hazing 5 Smart Ways to Protect Yourself
As recent news stories make painfully clear, hazing has caused humiliation, trauma, injuries, and deaths, damaging and destroying too many young lives. Although hazing rituals are intended to create...
Free resources to keep kids safe 4 important steps to protect and empower young people
In today’s troubled times, more than ever, all children need to know that they can turn to and trust an adult for help. As part of September’s Child Protection Advocacy Month, Kidpower International is sharing four important steps plus free resources that can make a lasting difference in a child’s life and help to transform the fear of bullying, violence, and abuse into a future of lifelong safety and success for today’s youth.
When Disaster Strikes: Safety Comes From Inside Ourselves
Our hearts go out to each person whose life is being devastated by Hurricane Harvey - and we are filled with gratitude for each person who is helping to...
“I don’t want to upset my child!” How to talk about safety with highly sensitive kids
Many people expressed appreciation for our blog post about what adults need to know to protect their kids from sexual abuse - and what our kids need to know to stay safe. One mother...
What Does a Child Abuser Look Like?
Once a friend asked me, ” What does a child abuser look like?”
“I wish I had an easy answer to that question,” I said. …
As adults, we need to be prepared to stay connected with our children and know who the people responsible for their safety are and what they are doing. We must ask questions and speak up anytime we have a concern, regardless of discomfort or worries we might have.
Without going into the details about sexual abuse, here is what our kids need to know:
To Love, Honor, and Disobey In Celebration of Our 43rd Wedding Anniversary
Without my husband Ed’s constant support of the organizational “child” I brought into our home and lives 28 years ago, there would be no Kidpower! And, since so many of you wrote about my...
Letter to My 19-Year-Old Self 50 Years Later
I sometimes wish that I could put a letter in a bottle and send it across the ocean of time to one of my younger Selves. On my 69th birthday, as I am looking back over the years,...
Seven Positive Actions To Honor Child Abuse Prevention Month
Let’s honor Child Abuse Prevention Month this April by protecting our kids from harm – and preparing them with knowledge and skills for taking charge of their own safety. Sadly, we cannot take away the suffering caused by abuse in the past. We can and must do our best to protect the kids of today and tomorrow – and to help everyone who has survived abuse as a child to find healing and hope.
Here are seven child abuse prevention actions each of us can take this month that will make a difference.
DON´T MISS OUT: ¡NO TE LO PIERDAS! Taller de Prevención de Bullying para familias ESTE SÁBADO Bullying Prevention Workshop for Spanish speaking families THIS SATURDAY
Please share the message below with your Spanish speaking parents so that they won´t miss out on our special online Kidpower Prevention Skills Workshop in Spanish for families with kids ages 7-12, this Saturday, September 16th from 10am-11am PT…
79 million safer people? How could that happen? Big news for Kidpower...
Imagine 79 million people getting new skills to protect themselves and others! It might seem impossible - but now, thanks to Workplace Options (WPO), the world's leading provider of wellbeing solutions, we have the power to make it happen. WPO has selected Kidpower...
What’s More Important – Safety or Uncomfortable Feelings?
Kidpower's 'Put Safety FIRST' Founding Principle is:"Safety and wellbeing are more important than ANYONE'S embarrassment, inconvenience, or offense!" This principle grew out of a comment made by Founding Board President Ellen Bass in 1989 when she and I were at the...