A Bold New Initiative to Empower Children in Keeping Themsleves Safe in Today's World

Kidsreach has prepared a new tool that has the potential to assist children in keeping themselves safe from physical, emotional and sexual abuse. This is a huge subject and one that the churches in NZ and Australia are only too well aware of. Often we are the ones that are left to pick up the pieces at the end of the abuse.

Kids Keep Safe aims to provide children with a new, contemporary and empowering tool designed to empower them to protect themselves against abuse. The benefits of this initiative are:

• Early intervention
• Empowerment – giving children the tools and the knowledge to act.
• It has a 'Cool' factor, making it ‘trendy’ or the ‘in thing’ to keep themselves safe. This is something present programs tend not to do.
• Kids Keep Safe is designed not to raise the anxiety level in children, nor to interfere with normal and healthy parental affection.
• With the support of the website www.kidskeepsafe.com, children will be able to practice keeping themselves safe.
  This program has been written by a clinical psychologist who specialises in children, and developed further by a professional counsellor.

Priority

The priority is to get the Kids Keep Safe set of cards into the hands of every NZ and Australian child that is aged 8 years and older.

It is hoped that this can be done with the support and/or endorsement of the Ministry of Education. The opportunity is also there for every Christian church to be involved.

Linked to the message on the cards will be the:

• Website – child friendly - www.kidskeepsafe.com
• Class books
• Access to help lines.
• Our Request to You

This will require a huge amount of support from big sponsors and small contributors alike.

We all need your PRAYERS AND HELP so this will happen.

We will also need people in different areas in NZ to spearhead and promote this project.

We will keep you informed, check this page from time to time, but if you are interested in being involved in this project, please email GabrielleLiddle@kidsreach.org.nz .

Like all big plans, the project will incur considerable expense, so we've made a “Donation Slip” with a Kids Keep Safe option; your help would be greatly appreciated.