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Parentpower: Prevent Sexual Abuse Without Scaring Kids

Learn Kidpower strategies to protect and empower kids and teens with skills to help keep them stay  safe from abuse - without scaring them.

Learn how to look out for potential problems with people and situations & make decisions about people and places you will trust with your kids.

Learn how to use emotional safety techniques and how to teach them to your kids. Help children and teens learn age-appropriate skills to recognize trouble, set boundaries, and get help.
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 Learn important skills in 1-hour

Learn at your own pace from this workshop recording (original broadcast: April 2021)

Get tips from an expert

Presented by Kidpower Founder and Executive Director

See skills in action

View role-plays that show each skill in action

Access bonus resources

Gain easy access to supportive articles and resources to help keep young people safe

What's included?

Course for adults: parents, caregivers, guardians, educators

Learn Kidpower strategies to protect and empower kids and teens with skills to help keep them safe from abuse - without scaring them. Learn how to model, and apply boundary and consent skills and principles. Topics covered include how to:
  • Protect children from sexual abuse without scaring them, destroying their trust, or explaining the details of sexual abuse.
  • Teach and uphold consent and boundary rules and help kids learn the safety rules about private areas
  • Empower children with skills for healthy, strong, safe relationships of all kinds
  • Skills to teach about "safety lies" and safe and unsafe secrets
  • Skills to intervene to stop problems before they grow
  • Practice coaching kids how to persist to get help
  • 1-Hour dynamic video course
  • 5 Strategies to prevent sexual abuse
  • In action skill demos
  • 22 Bonus articles & posters 
  • 4 Bonus skill guides

Learn from an expert

Irene van der Zande, Executive Director and Founder of Kidpower International, shares stories, skills, and strategies on how to protect kids and teens from sexual abuse without scaring them. Irene brings over three decades of experience in safety education and youth development. 

Practice skills with us

Irene will demonstrate each of the skills presented and show how to practice them with the young people in your life in ways that are fun, not scary and age-appropriate.

Teaching and Tech Team

Irene van der Zande
Marylaine Léger
Mackenzie Mitchell
The Kidpower Online Learning Center, part of Kidpower International, aims to help learners gain important 'People Safety' skills for themselves and to help educators and caring adults learn how to teach these important skills to others, using Kidpower's Positive Teaching Method™.

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