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Stay up to date with our most recent news and resources!
School Safety Resources from Kidpower
Here are some of Kidpower’s most popular articles and videos to help your child have the best possible start to the new school year.
Watch and Share New Videos: Protecting Youth Athletes From Sexual Abuse
I am pleased and honored to have Kidpower featured in 2 new videos produced in partnership with Jim Thompson, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Founder and CEO, and Mark Murphy, Green Bay Packers President and CEO…
Happy 90th Birthday to my father, Raim Regelson!
Raim’s enormous energy, exuberant joy in life, courage, passion for making our world a better place, deep connection to nature, and perseverance are still going strong.
Great book for preteen girls includes Kidpower skills to cope with bullying
Recently, I had the joy of watching twelve empowered girls ages 6-11 perform a play that they had all contributed to creating. As...
Meaningful Gifts for Your Child’s Teacher: 8 Suggestions From Kidpower
Teachers have an incredible impact on the emotional and physical safety of kids for many of their waking hours, and making a special gift at year’s end is a way to express your appreciation for the role a teacher has played in your child’s and your family’s life.
Kidpower 18-hr Parents & Professionals Training: Registration OPEN!
As a participant in this 18-hour seminar August 9-11 in San Francisco, you’ll receive personalized coaching to become a more effective youth safety leader as a parent, teacher, playground volunteer, counselor, coach, troop leader, or in any other adult leadership position serving youth.
Stay Connected With Your Teen’s Electronic Worlds – In Memory of Audrie Pott, Age 15
15-year-old Audrie Potts from Saratoga, California, took her life after expressing her despair online about being sexually assaulted and cyberbullied. Her parents only found these messages when searching for reasons after her death. According to some estimates, teens spend half their lives online. These electronic worlds are too dangerous for our kids to live in without the knowledge and guidance of the adults who love them.
Too many times, adults don’t discover online messages about cyberbullying, parties with heavy drinking, or warning signs of despair or violence until after something terrible has happened, when the opportunity to take protective action is gone.
How is swimming like bullying prevention? $1+ gifts doubled in Kidpower’s first micro-donation campaign!
Bullying prevention as a lot like swimming — we think of it as ‘social swimming’!
Teenpower/Fullpower Core Program Training April 25-30 – Deadline March 1st
This six-day training program is part of our instructor training process to certify candidates to teach teens and adults under our auspices.
“What If Someone Starts Shooting Kids At My School?” – A Heartbreaking Question No Child Should Ever Have To Ask
Every time a school shooting occurs, parents, teachers, and other caring adults want to know what to say to their children. Our job is to provide reassuring, truthful information in an age-appropriate fashion without putting upsetting images in our children’s heads that don’t need to be there. Here how to protect children’s emotional safety right now as we are figuring out how to take action to prevent tragedies like this in the future.
Advice to Parents About Newtown Tragedy: Four Actions to Protect Kids’ Emotional Safety
As news keeps unfolding about the Sandy Hook school tragedy, children might hear new scary details and their anxiety might grow. Check in with your kids today. As sad as we all are, here are four actions parents can take today to protect their kids from trauma and empower them in the face of violence.
6 Steps for Creating Cultures of Caring, Respect, and Safety in Daily Life
Kidpower’s vision of working together to create cultures of caring, respect, and safety for everyone, everywhere is a lofty goal that is often challenging to make real in our daily lives. Here some resources that can help.
Let’s make this the BEST SCHOOL YEAR EVER!
The pandemic has made the last three school years really hard. Educators, families, and especially KIDS deserve the BEST school year EVER.
Self-Defense Resources and Workshops
People often ask us, "What if I do everything I can to avoid being attacked - and it doesn't work?" The answer, of course, is that they might need to use the power of their body -...
Protecting Young People from Human Trafficking – a new Video Short from Avery!
If you have older teens or young adults in your life, we encourage you to watch with them this short, vivid, compassionate, and powerful new video, Staying Safe from Trafficking...