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Dear Readers,
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 Whether you are visiting a new place, going to a new school, or starting a new job, change brings new adventures, new worries, and new challenges. These experiences are far more likely to be joyful rather than upsetting when everyone in a family, school, workplace, or other group has a common understanding about what the plan is each day, has thought about what possible safety problems might come up, and has rehearsed the skills necessary to keep themselves and others safe.
An elementary school teacher with children of her own just wrote to us, "Thanks so much for your help with our school and for KIDPOWER overall. I can't tell you how many times a week our family refers to some KIDPOWER-ism or another. We used it a lot this summer when we were in strange places with different languages. This made it possible for our kids to enjoy having some independence and autonomy from time to time. The past few weeks I've been hinting at a lot of the skills as gently as I can as my daughter gets ready to start middle school. She's nervous and has heard there are fights, but really she's more nervous about which "cliques" from her school will stay together and who she'll still be "in" with. KIDPOWER to the rescue on both counts!"
We are delighted that KIDPOWER skills are making such a big difference for this family and encourage all of our readers to use our resources to help the important people in your life become safer and more confident.
With best wishes of safety and joy for you and your loved ones,
Irene van der Zande
KIDPOWER Executive Director/Co-Founder
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Safe and Unsafe Bribes
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Although people who have bad intentions might try to coerce others by offering them bribes, just telling children not to take bribes can be very confusing.
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Personal Safety for Children's Coaches
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At a recent parent-child workshop, a very kind father called Ron said, "We need this kind of training for coaches too! At the children's soccer games that I coach, we do our best to keep our team members from bullying each other or kids from other teams. But sometimes the kids' parents will start screaming insults and threats at our coaches because they disagree with some decision. Even if they've signed pledges not to, some parents believe that acting this way and booing players is part of sports. What should we do?
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The KIDPOWER Book for Caring Adults
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The KIDPOWER Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence, and Advocacy for Young People was created in response to the request of thousands of people who wanted a comprehensive description of our program that they could use in their daily lives. As the mother of the mother of a five-year-old son and a ten-year old daughter wrote to us, "For years I have struggled with how to approach the subject of safety with my kids, but haven't known how to do it without scaring them. Your new book is great because it makes it so easy. I just read the background information and then do the activities with my kids. They find these exercises interesting rather than upsetting - and I feel SO much better!"
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2008 Instructor Training
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The biggest benefit of becoming a KIDPOWER instructor is in seeing how a few hours of time can make such a big difference in bringing safety and confidence to our students - giving them skills that they can use right away and that can make their lives better for years. We are now accepting applications for our 2008 Instructor Training Programs.
The KIDPOWER Training will be held from the afternoon of January 10th through January 15th. The TEENPOWER/FULLPOWER Training will be held from April 25th through April 29th. Please note: Fees posted on our website are for people are getting started in new communities. These are different for people who are from our current Centers or who are part of our California Regional Center that hosts the training programs. Contact your local center or the central office for more information.
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California Workshop Schedule
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Our current public schedule is updated monthly and includes a variety of workshops for children, teens and adults in Berkeley,Palo Alto, Petaluma, the Santa Cruz area,
and Santa Rosa.
Most of our services are not on the public schedule because they are organized privately by individuals, schools and organizations. We are happy to provide support to help you to organize programs for the important people in your life.
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WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT!
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 MANY THANKS to our hundreds of donors and volunteers. Your generosity is making a big difference in our ability to help others.
MANY
THANKS to the Corporate, Foundation, Service Club, and Government
Partners of our Central Office: Albany Lions, Allstate Foundation,
Applied Materials, Atkinson Foundation, Bank of the West, Bayer
Foundation, Big Sky Creative, Blue Shield of California Foundation,
California Endowment, Canadian International Development Agency, Castro
Valley Rotary, Citigroup Foundation, Cisco Systems Foundation, Coast
Commercial Bank, Santa Cruz Commission for the Prevention of Violence
Against Women, Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Community
Foundation Silicon Valley, Community Printers of Santa Cruz, David and
Lucile Packard Foundation, The Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation, DeAnza Lions, Deluxe Corporation Foundation,
Driscoll's Charitable Fund, East Bay Community Foundation, Ecolab,
Ephraim Foundation, Finish Line Youth Foundation, Freedom Rotary, Fremont Bank, Gayle's Bakery and
Rosticerria, Giant Steps Foundation, Google, Greater Bay Bancorp,
Guidant Foundation, the Health Trust, Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi
Data Systems, Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc., Hitachi
Foundation, Hyperion Solutions, Insurance Industry Charitable
Foundation, In N Out Burger, JM Long Foundation, Kaiser Permanente,
Jean and Ed Kelly Foundation, Lowell Berry Foundation, Lucile Packard
Foundation for Children's Health, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Mechanics Bank,
Mervyn's, Omega Nu, Peninsula Community Foundation, Plantronics, Porter
Sesnon Foundation, Arnie Kamrin of PPi Technologies Global, Radio
Shack, Rite Aid Foundation, Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation, Russell
Investment Group, San Lorenzo Valley Rotary, San Francisco Foundation,
Santa Cruz Medical Clinic, Scotts Valley Lions, Scotts Valley Rotary,
Seagate, sharpdots.com, SmithMicro, Sonora Area Foundation, Staples
Foundation for Learning, Target Stores, Tides Foundation, Tuolumne
County First 5 Commission, TRIO Foundation, Union Bank of California, Union City Lions,
Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation, Verizon, Vodaphone, Waste
Management, Wells Fargo Foundation, West Marine, and the Y. & H.
Soda Foundation.
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