Welcome to Kidpower North Carolina and our update for January 2011. We've had a lot of interest in our programs following the recent news coverage on WRAL.com:
Beyond stranger danger: How to talk to your kids by Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
We are thrilled to see this increased interest in child safety training. The challenge we face right now is that we have a very small staff and we are not able to offer public workshops at this time. We are focusing on events organized for private groups: for example, a school, church community, or Scout troop. Private workshops work best because the group requesting the training is responsible for fundraising, getting the group together, and providing space. If you can do that work, then we can come in to actually teach Kidpower.
At this time we are focusing on offering parent training because we can educate the whole adult community at once. In two hours I can teach skills to 50+ parents and teachers, and then the adults in the community can start using those skills and modeling them for the kids.
When we provide direct training to children, we work with typically 10-25 kids at a time; 10 kids for a parent-child workshop or up to 25 kids for an Everyday Safety Classroom presentation.
The Kidpower headquarters in California are helping us work with groups who are requesting training. If you are interested in developing a private group training from Kidpower North Carolina, please direct your request to the Kidpower Central Office by emailing safety@kidpower.org and the Kidpower administrator will guide you through the process.
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