Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International

Our ultimate goal over the next three years is to help over 1 million more people of all ages and abilities, become safer and more confident through learning effective and empowering child protection, personal safety, and positive communication skills.
Too much misery, trauma, and tragedy has been caused by bullying, violence, and abuse that could have been prevented or stopped. Just increasing awareness and knowledge about these issues is not enough. People also need skills so that they know how to take effective action to avoid or stop an unsafe situation.
To accomplish this goal, we are reaching out to parents, schools, organizations, and other groups responsible for people who are especially vulnerable to becoming victimized, including:
• Young children
• Children, teens, and adults with physical, intellectual, or mental health disabilities
• Families living in communities with high rates of violence
• Young people in danger in developing countries who have been living and/or working on the streets
• Elderly people
Our expected outcomes are that:
• Over 90% of the parents, educators and professionals we serve will report that Kidpower educational resources and/or workshops has increased their ability to protect those in their care – and to teach them to protect themselves.
• Over 90% of these parents, educators, and professionals will state that their members have become safer because of the use of the Kidpower program.
• Over 90% of our students will learn how to use their awareness to avoid trouble, project an assertive attitude, move away from someone who is acting unsafely, stay in charge of acting safely and respectfully themselves, communicate about boundaries, persist in getting help for people who might be impatient or busy, and use their voices and bodies to protect themselves from an attack.

For Kidpower, long-term success means that families, schools, organizations, and communities will know how to use the personal safety skills that Kidpower teaches and the Positive Practice method to prepare their members to:
• prevent problems with people;
• increase confidence;
• reduce victimization;
• develop strong relationships;
• stay safe from most bullying, sexual abuse, kidnapping, and other violence

Since 1989, Kidpower has developed an exceptional research-based personal safety curriculum. Our Positive Practice Teaching Method coaches each person to be successful in rehearsing the skills taught. Instead of using fear to teach about danger, we make it fun to learn to be safe!
Our overall service strategy is to serve locally and share globally.
So far, we have served over 2.5 million people. Our goal is to increase our impact by greatly increasing the numbers of people who will benefit from our services through these strategies:
• Continuing to provide hands-on workshops to at least 20,000 people a year so that we continue to have direct interactions with children, teens, and adults
• Training the staff in organizations and schools so that they can teach these skills themselves and integrate them into their daily activities
• Partnering with national and international organizations so we can train their staff and license them to use our curriculum in their own services
• Developing new educational resources, including a Seniorpower Workbook, and an Unlimited Adaptability book for teaching safety skills to people with special needs, child protection videos and handouts in partnership with different organizations, etc.
• Increasing our marketing of our extensive free on-line library so that far more people will become aware of this resource
• Creating an online training program
• Conducting three-day Child Protection Skills Institutes in different locations

Kidpower’s capacities include:
• deeply dedicated leadership at both the international and, in locations where we have centers, at the community level
• highly trained instructors and trainers
• a proven curriculum and teaching approach
• a very effective system for training new instructors
• books and other educational materials that make it easy to learn how to use our program in daily life
• a very informative website including an extensive free online library
• an exceptional track record and reputation
• a budget that is supported by class fees, donations, and grants – and that is not overly dependent on any one resource. Most of our centers have no government funding
• a unique approach for addressing the critical public health issues of bullying, violence, and abuse through providing actual practice of relevant skills
• successful partnerships with hundreds of organizations and schools on the local level – and two major partnerships on the national level.
In the future, we will increase our capacity for long-distance training through new videos, books, and other resources.

People served
Reached the landmark of serving over 2.5 million people through in-person workshops, our free online Library, consulting, and books. Provided workshops to over 10,000 people in California and to over 20,000 people worldwide.
Partnerships
Positive Coaching Alliance. Worked with the national nonprofit dedicated to creating positive character-building experiences for youth athletes to create new free videos and handouts on Protecting Youth Athletes From Sexual Abuse.
Hands and Voices. Provided consultation to the largest national advocacy group for families with children who are deaf/hard of hearing. Together, working to create videos and handouts for parents and professionals about how to protect the children they serve from sexual abuse.
Plan Pakistan. Plan International works to end child abuse in developing countries. In Pakistan they are establishing Early Childhood Development and Education Centers, with two center leaders participating in our certified Instructor Training program.
New curriculum resources
Two new books, 10 People Safety Assignments and 15 People Safety Lessons, make it easier for classroom teachers and others to introduce key Kidpower concepts and skills. Bilingual English/Spanish versions are available for both books.
Child Protection Skills Institute
Conducted a pilot three-day Kidpower Skills for Child Protection Institute in San Francisco. Program teaches professionals to incorporate Kidpower techniques and language into their work with children.
Autism Speaks
Completed a two-year pilot project funded in part by Autism Speaks to further adapt our program for people on the autism spectrum, with higher results than projected both in terms of impact and numbers served.
New books
Earliest Teachable Moment: Personal Safety for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers describes how to teach safety skills even to the youngest children. One Strong Move: A Cartoon-Illustrated Introduction to Teaching Self-Defense makes teaching self-defense to teens and adults easy with 150 pages of lesson plans.
What still needs to happen?

Planned goals for the future:
• Expand the use of our free enewsletter, book sales through Amazon, and the use of Kidpower books and materials in teacher training programs to increase sales.
• Continue and expand existing partnerships with the groups listed above, and approach other national organizations where we have strong local connections, such as the Boys and Girls Clubs, for possible partnership.
• Add 11 new updated and improved Teaching Books about specific skills to Amazon, including a SeniorPower Workbook for training seniors and an Unlimited Adaptability workbook for teaching skills to people with disabilities.
• Conduct a Kidpower Core Program Training for preparing instructors to teach children every year, and a Teenpower/Fullpower Core Training Program for teaching teens and adults every other year.
• Organize and teach workshops serving at least 20,000 people a year.