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Kidpower Stay Together, Move Away and Check First Skills for

Being Safe in Public Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director and Founder

Illustrated by Amanda Golert

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Kidpower Stay Together, Move Away, and Check First

Safety Signs

When we are out in public, we are safer whenwe Stay Together...

If someone is notacting safely, Move

Away.

Check First with the adults in charge before changing the plan about WHERE

you are going, WHO is with you, and WHAT you are doing.

Stay Together

Move Away From Trouble Check FIRST


Neighbor

Rosa! Come see our new kittens!

KITTENS!!

If you are playing in your front yard and your neighbor wants to show you her little kittens...

Move Away and Check First Before You Go


I have to Check First!

Move away and Check First with the grownup in charge at your house. Your job is to Check First before you change your plan. Your grownups can tell you if it is okay for you to go to your neighbor’s house.



If you are at your house and a stranger comes to the door...

Flowers!

Ring, ring!



There is a stranger at the door!

Thank you for checking first!

Move away and go find the grownup in charge at your house so you can Check First. Your grownup can go and answer the door to see who it is.



Practicing Moving Away and Checking First

Step 1: Coaching: Set the stage by saying where the child is, where safety is, and who you are pretending to be.

Annette, let’s pretend you are sitting in the front of your

house, and the bunny is Grandma inside of the house... Now use your imagination and pretend

that I am a stranger...

Step 2: Role Play: Start the role play, using the child’s name.

Hi Annette! Don’t you remember me? I am your

Grandma’s neighbor.

Huh??

Step 3: Coaching: Stop and coach the child to stand up and move away.

Annette, remember that even though somebody knows your name, he or she can still be a

stranger. As soon as you notice the stranger, your job is to stand

up so you can move away.

Step 4: Role Play: Continue the role play.

Come on, you remember me, don’t you? You played at my

house last week!

No!


Step 5: Coaching: If the child answers, stop and coach the child to not answer and move away and check first.

Annette- Keep moving away from the pretend stranger... and re-

member not to answer. Go all the way to safety and check with the bunny who is your pretend

grandma.

Pretend Grandma

Step 6: Role Play: Continue the role play.

Why are you walking away from me? I just wanted

to say hello.

Grandma, there is a stranger who knows

my name.

Step 7: Coaching: Answer questions the child might have to reinforce that it is okay to walk away from someone in order to check with your grownup.

What if he really was Grandma’s friend and I forgot?

That’s OK! The safety rule is that as soon as things change,

your job is to check first.

Practicing Moving Away and Checking First


Pete says that the bus is not going to come today. Rosa says that she is going to CHECK FIRST with her sister before she changes her plan about waiting for the bus. She walks away, even though Pete is being very nice and she would love to have a ride to school.

But Rosa, we heardon the radio that

the bus is not coming today. You’ll be latefor school. CHECK

FIRSTPlease wait.I would like

to take a ride, but I need to CHECK FIRST with my sister

before I change my plan.

Check Before You Change Your Plan About

Taking the Bus


Why don’t I give you ride home.

No. My plan is to stay with my friends. Thanks,

anyway.

Rosa is tired and a friendly man she meets at a dance offers her a ride home. Rosa knows that she is safer if she follows her plan about staying with her friends.

Staying Together To Be Safe

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Set the stage by putting two chairs next to each other to make a bus stop.

Have a student pretend to be waiting for the bus. Greet the student by name.

Make up a story about why the student should accept a ride with you. Coach the student to say that she or he needs to check first.

Pretend to have hurt feelings. Coach the student to leave and check first anyway.

Congratulate the student for checking first instead of accepting the ride.

Practicing Checking First Before You Change Your Plan About

Taking the Bus

Let’s imagine that this is a bus stop, and I am someone you know a little

but not well.

Okay!Hi Alinda! Remember

me?

Yes!

I heard on the radio that the bus is running late. Do you want a ride to

school?

I need to check first.

Why? I just

want to help out. Don’t you like me?

I like you but I need

to check before I

change myplan about going with

anyone.

GOOD JOB!


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