(National
Trainer Susan Rogers in a role-play with
teens from a California Native
American Youth Conference)
Prevention vs. Intervention
Is There Value in Preventive Education?
Studies
are beginning to surface that are strongly supportive of the concept
that educating children on :"... self-protection skills in an effort to
prevent sexual abuse..." ( -research article- Educating Children About Sexual Abuse: Implications for Pediatric Intervention and Possible Prevention - by Debra A. Saslawsky2 and Sandy K. Wurtele, Washington State University).
It
has long been the contention of many who work in the field of child
safety education that prevention is a very effective approach to
reducing and someday eliminating sexual abuse, abduction and
exploitation. This is not to say that intervention isn't a vital
aspect of the process of protecting today's children and teens. Many
have never had any kind of safety education therefore they are totally
unprepared when faced with predatory behavior. Hundreds of thousands of
children in the U.S. suffer abuse, abduction and exploitation of the
most unspeakable kind because they didn't know they could say no, or
even how to if they did know.
As the study noted above
reports, given the opportunity to learn how to recognize inappropriate
behaviors is the first and a vital step in innoculating our kids today
with the tools they need to be more capable of avoiding or getting out
of dangerous situation.
Kids do learn and retain information much more effectively than many
would like to believe. This is why the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the Justice Department, the FBI and countless
other organizations who work to keep today's youth safe from predators
all agree that kids who are given the tools provided in personal
protection education are more likely to avoid or get themselves out
dangerous situations.
Internet
Safety for Kids & Teens Continues to Take
Center
Stage
MySpace Working Hard to Improve:
"On behalf of MySpace, Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam said, "We
thank the Attorneys General for a thoughtful and constructive
conversation on Internet safety. This is an industry-wide challenge and
we must all work together to create a safer Internet." Read Entire Article....
PBS & FRONTLINE look
inside the world of today's cyber-smart generation through the eyes of
teens and their parents, who often find themselves on opposite sides of
this new .
Read Entire Article...
Circle 1 Network and their family of websites has long term goals at
educating and preventing kids from being exposed to online predators.
To review this site go.....
Online
predators: Help minimize the risk is headline on Microsofts online
approach to educating parents how to better help their kids in the
battle for online safety.
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(Alex Delgado host of Central Valley Today show on KSEE Channel 24 with National Trainers, Don & Susan
Rogers) We will be off the air until April 2008
For
Archived Segments Go Here
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Safety Awareness
& Family Education
Network celebrates
9
year educating kids, communities and families on personal
safety for kids from sexual molestation, abduction & exploitation. |
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What Should A Safety Program for
Today's Children & Teens
Be?
(pictured the K-12 Personal Protection Empowerment Program
along with the
New Parent and Teen Parent Programs)
According to the standards of the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children there is a very
defined set of
criteria that a program should meet to
be age appropriate and have
within it all the components
that will make it well rounded and
effective. To ensure
that the S.A.F.E. Network Personal Protection
Empowerment Program meets all of their standard, each
year we compare any changes,
updates or additions to
the program with those standards to make
sure they are
in compliance.
This picture shows the Master K-12 Personal Protection
Empowerment Program set.
What is not included in this
picture is the Personal Protection
Empowerment for
New Parents; or some of the new stand alone
manuals
such as the New Parent and Teen Parent manuals.
For more information on these programs and their
components, go to our Programs link on the right, and
decide what
you want to view. Their are links that will
take you to each
individual item or program.
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Who Cares About Protecting
Our
Children & Teens??
We are pleased to include
the following groups and organizations
over 41 states across the
U.S. that are doing what they can to
educate and immunize today's
youth and families against the
prolific attack of sexual predators
and their methods and attempts
to molest, abduct and
exploit.
(pic.
Soldiers at Ft. Hood 2003 in Parent Training by S.A.F.E Network)
over 50 Army, Air Force & Navy Base across 27 states
over 40 Native
American Indian Education Ctrs in 9 states
15 Foster Family
Agencies throughout California
Numerous Police
Departments, Schools & School Districts,
YMCA's, Salvation
Army
family education centers,
Various
Religous Groups, Radio and TV stations, and
thousands of individuals who are using our Baby,
Child & Teen Safety ID Kits and home oriented components
of the curriculum to teach their kids personal safety with.
More and more the socially
conscious of the U.S. and around the
world are realizing that it
takes everyone doing their part in making
sure that today's kids are
provided the education they need to
protect themselves in the sexual
war being waged against them.
WE
CONGRATULATE ALL OF THOSE WHO MAKE
THIS
EFFORT POSSIBLE! |
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