Copyright Notice
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Dear Readers,
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KIDPOWER's e-newsletter was the brainchild of one of the remarkable people who make KIDPOWER what it is, Erika Leonard. She started with a list of 30 names ten years ago, and we now have over 8,500 e-newsletter subscribers from around the world!
At the time she joined our organization in 1995, Erika was a middle school teacher who inspired her students and had parents fighting to get their children into her class. Through her many roles in KIDPOWER, Erika has contributed greatly to the increasing strength of our organization, especially through her help with building relationships for service, visibility, and funding. She is now our Program Manager of California Services and a member of our international Senior Program Leader Council.
As a dedicated educator, Erika keeps bringing fresh perspectives, new practices, teaching stories, and examples that improve the value and clarity of our services. Her ideas have added to the depth of our program. In everything she does with KIDPOWER, Erika gives fully of her enthusiasm, energy, creativity, and commitment.
 One of Erika's gifts to KIDPOWER is her coining of the term "People Safety" to describe what we teach in a succinct, positive way. Teaching "People Safety skills brings us closer to our goal of ensuring that all people have effective tools for being safe with each other and with themselves. Erika has now come up with another wonderful idea - the creation of free KIDPOWER People Safety Podcast episodes designed to get you thinking and talking about how People Safety skills help people of all ages and abilities build safer, happier lives and stronger relationships. Each 3-7 minute episode is created for adults to enjoy on their own or with young people. We have started with three episodes and will be adding two each month.
I am also pleased to announce the release of another new resource, our updated KIDPOWER Guide for Parents and Teachers, which is now available for sale on our website as an eBook in English or Spanish ($10). In addition to our library of free articles and our printed publications available for purchase now, we will be adding more eBooks on different topics during the next few months.
With appreciation to each of you for your commitment to "People Safety" for yourself and your loved ones,
Irene van der Zande
KIDPOWER Executive Director/Co-Founder
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Email Safety
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 How many of you have sent an e-mail that made your problem with someone bigger rather than better? Or that created a problem that you hadn't had before?
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Powerful Positive Adult Leadership
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 Emotional and physical safety for children begins with their adults taking charge of their well-being. When their adults lead in powerful and respectful ways, young people are safer and they gain a tremendous example of how to be both powerful and respectful in their own lives. |
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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, Los Altos, 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.
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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, Bay Federal Savings, Bayer
Foundation, Big Sky Creative, Blue Shield of California Foundation,
California Endowment, Canadian International Development Agency, Castro
Valley Rotary, Center for Spiritual Living, Citigroup Foundation, Cisco Systems Foundation, Santa Cruz Commission for the Prevention of Violence
Against Women, Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, 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,the June and Julian Foss Foundation, Freedom Rotary, Fremont Bank, Gayle's Bakery and
Rosticerria, Giant Steps Foundation, Google, the Health Trust, Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi
Data Systems, Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc., Hitachi
Foundation, Insurance Industry Charitable
Foundation, In-N-Out Burger Foundation, 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, Office Depot Foundation, Omega Nu, Palo Alto Community Fund, Pantheon, 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, Safeway, San Lorenzo Valley Rotary, San Francisco Foundation,
Santa Cruz Medical Clinic, Scotts Valley Lions, Scotts Valley Rotary,
Seagate, Sharpdots.com, Silicon Valley Community
Foundation, SmithMicro, Sonora Area Foundation, Staples
Foundation for Learning, Special Hope Foundation, Target Stores, Tides Foundation, Tuolumne
County First 5 Commission, TRIO Foundation, Union Bank of California, Union City Lions,
Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation, Verizon, Vodafone, Wal-Mart, Waste
Management, Wells Fargo Foundation, West Marine, Western Digital, and the Y. & H.
Soda Foundation.
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