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
Check First Safety Sign
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Kidpower Stay Together,
Move Away, and Check First
Safety Signs
Stay Together
When we are out in public, we are safer when
we Stay Together...
Move Away From Trouble
If someone is not
acting safely, Move
Away.
Check FIRST
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.
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Move Away and Check
First Before You Go
Rosa! Come see our new kittens!
Neighbor
KITTENS!!
If you are playing in your front yard and your
neighbor wants to show you her little kittens...
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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.
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Move Away and Check
First Before You Go
Flowers!
Ring, ring!
If you are at your house and a stranger comes to the
door...
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Move Away and Check
First Before You Go
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.
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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!
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Practicing Moving Away
and Checking First
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 remember not to answer. Go all the
way to safety and check with
the bunny who is your 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.
Pretend
Grandma
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.
That’s OK! The safety rule is
that as soon as things change,
your job is to check first.
What if he
really was
Grandma’s
friend and
I forgot?
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Check Before You
Change Your Plan About
Taking the Bus
But Rosa, we heard
on the radio that
the bus is not
coming today.
You’ll be late
for school.
CHECK
FIRST
Please wait.
I would like
to take a ride,
but I need to
CHECK FIRST
with my sister
before I
change my plan.
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.
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Staying Together
To Be Safe
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.
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Practicing Checking First Before
You Change Your Plan About
Taking the Bus
the stage by putting two chairs next to each
1 Set
other to make a bus stop.
Let’s imagine that
this is a bus stop,
and I am someone
you know a little
but not well.
Hi Alinda!
Remember
me?
Okay!
up a story about why
3 Make
the student should accept
a ride with you. Coach the
student to say that she or he
needs to check first.
I like
you but
I need
to check
before I
change my
plan about
going with
anyone.
Yes!
I need to
check first.
I heard on the
radio that the bus
is running late. Do
you want a ride to
school?
to have hurt feelings. Coach the student to
4 Pretend
leave and check first anyway.
Why?
I just
want to
help out.
Don’t you
like me?
a student pretend to be waiting for the bus.
2 Have
Greet the student by name.
the student for checking first instead
5 Congratulate
of accepting the ride.
GOOD
JOB!
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