Whether your family will be spending more time at home or more time traveling or visiting places outside of your home, Kidpower Safety Skills help everyone stay safe and have more fun!
See below and in this article for resources to help prepare you to Take Charge of Your Family’s Summer Safety!
Kidpower Advice to Prevent Sexual Abuse At Summer Camp & Recreation Activities
Our Keeping Our Kids Safe at Summer Camps and in Youth Sports – Child Abuse Prevention Video provides cheerful and clear guidance about:
- what questions to ask of places and people in charge of your kids
- how to prepare children and teens to speak up for their safety, and
- how to take action when there is a concern.
Kidpower Workshops
Kidpower, Teenpower, and Familypower workshops give our participants the opportunity for successful practice of skills and strategies to prevent and solve problems with people. Topics include: 8 Skills to Face Bullying With Confidence, Boundary and Positive Communication Skills, and much much more. You can attend a public workshop or organize a private workshop for your family and friends, school, or youth group. We also provide training for parents, educators, and other caring adults.
Our next public workshop is Familypower: Online Safety Skills for ages 9-14 side-by-side with their adults on Sunday, June 22, 10-11am PT.
Kidpower 30-Skill Coaching Handbook
Our most comprehensive, yet easily accessible, handbook for practicing safety skills is our Kidpower 30-Skills Coaching Handbook.Parents, teachers, and other caring adults use this resource to prepare children and teens to stay safe from bullying and abuse and to have more fun and fewer problems with people. This valuable resource is free of charge thanks to our donors.
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Published: May 27, 2025 | Last Updated: May 27, 2025
Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director
Kidpower Founder and Executive Irene van der Zande is a master at teaching safety through stories and practices and at inspiring others to do the same. Her child protection and personal safety expertise has been featured by USA Today, CNN, Today Moms, the LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Publications include: cartoon-illustrated Kidpower Safety Comics and Kidpower Teaching Books curriculum; Bullying: What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe; the Relationship Safety Skills Handbook for Teens and Adults; Earliest Teachable Moment: Personal Safety for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers; The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence, and Advocacy for Young People, and the Amazon Best Seller Doing Right by Our Kids: Protecting Child Safety at All Levels.