Susan and Don Rogers
are currently the
proud parents of
6 adult children,
16 grand-children and
6 great-grandchildren.
         

As it states in the Articles of Incorporation … " This corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation organized for the specific purposes of improving the standards, practices and effectiveness of, and promoting child and family safety, as well as other related public welfare topics through various training, literature and educational formats."

In March of 1998 Susan Rogers created a three-year updateable child safety ID kit called KidPrints. This evolved from a series of events spanning 28 years. In 1970 Susan Rogers' (a single parent at that time) babysitter's husband molested her seven-year-old daughter. The babysitter didn't tell Mrs. Rogers that her husband was a convicted pedophile. Then in 1975, a stranger who invaded her home, raped Mrs. Rogers. Her two young daughters were asleep in the other room and she lived in terror that they might be harmed. Fortunately that did not happen. In 1988 her fifteen-year-old son ran away while in the custody of his father (her x-husband) and was missing for two weeks before he was found and returned home. These and other non-family related events helped to form the idea, motivation and passion that still drives S.A.F.E Network, Inc.

Don Rogers, the CFO and National Training Director of this organization thought it was a great idea and proceeded with various field studies. Subsequent improvements on the kit added fingerprint ink strips, and laminating pouches for the ID cards, an immunization record, and a DNA pouch. The Kid Tips 101 safety information pages added in the back were tips acquired from police agencies so that the information was correct. Gradually the kit went from a 16 page 3 year or 5 year kit, to a 32 page 4 year kit, completely self contained.

It became apparent that being a non-profit would be the best way to support the corporation's mission. So, S.A.F.E. NETWORK, INC. (Safety Awareness and Family Education Network, Inc.) became a California non-profit corporation, and a couple of years later, a federally recognized 501(c)3.

With over 25 years of business management and community service experience, the Rogers set out to create a program that would serve the needs of all families, caregivers and children from birth through age 18, regardless of where they lived; and to serve them in ways that were not duplicating services already in place. A Board of Directors and advisory committee were formed with other individuals who felt the same dedication to this work that the Rogers did. The Board meets periodically to define and redefine programs to offer. Events such as the highly successful S.A.F.E. Kids Day held in June, 1999 promoting the ideas and programs of the organization have become a norm. With the use of the three websites currently online, communities, police departments, school districts, and hospitals, community based groups like the YMCA, and now the various Army Family Advocacy Programs, along with Navy and AirForce, are working around the country to educate children and their families on how to recognize inappropriate behavior by adults and older kids..(Kid Tips 101) http://www.kidtips101.org; (Safety Awareness and Family Education Network), http://www.safenetwork.org; and in January of 2003 The Teen Scene our teen website http://www.safeteens101.org.

Since its inception, hundreds of thousands of child safety ID kits have been distributed through schools, radio stations, youth groups, businesses, community events, the military (56 military bases as of 3/1/2009), American Indian Education Centers (52 reservations as of 3/1/2009) and on-line orders with child safety programs and ID kits now serving over 42 states. The programs are working, parents are learning ways to better protect their children in a more direct approach that any others they have had access to, and children are being empowered with the ability to know how and when to say no to improper advances by predators.

Now with the proven success of our Personal Protection Empowerment Programs, which include our K-12 Programs, New Parent & Teen Parent programs, our Safety ID Kits, BabyPrints, KidPrints, and TeenPrints, developed to teach children and teen-agers and new and teen parents, these vital skills and abuse prevention techniques on an on-going and repetitive basis, the mission of preventing sexual abuse, exploitation and abduction is reaching a new plateau.

Knowledge is power. Building an organized community effort, the power is removed from the hands of the predator and placed back into the hands society. The founders of this corporation are dedicated to lowering the statistics that 1 out of every 4 girls and 1 out of  every 6 boys will be sexually assaulted by the age of 18.
Updated 1 March 2009