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Pre-K Safety

MARCH 2014

PARENT EDUCATION

Easton

Officer Wagner, Hickory Hills Police DepartmentCathy Lewis, MSW, Dorn Elementary SchoolKathleen Easton, Parent Coordinator, NPD 117

2Today’s Presentation: Safety

Home

Community

School

As parents we have to create an environment that makes our children feel safe. Our children need to be able to ask us questions, even if we think they should know the answers.

Easton

3Home:

Inside

Outside

Easton

4Inside

The decision to leave your child at home unattended is based on the parents confidence in their maturity level, there is not a legal age.

Lewis

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My professional opinion is that, if you have to question if your child is mature enough to be left at home than the answer is probably NO.

Lewis

6What information is needed:

Emergency numbers

Police, Fire, Family member

Parents, immediate family numbers

Cell phone versus land line?

Cell phone, password protected????

Cordless phone, returned to the hook

Address cooking or non cooking with your child

Lewis

7Practice

Make sure that your child/children know the numbers of the emergency personal as well as their parents.

Its not enough to make sure that the child knows the number, they must be able to dial the number.

Street name (complete address is ideal)

First, last name. Nicknames use your best judgment

Lewis

8Role Play:

Simulate a real phone call, more than once. At least 4 times of doing it correctly.

True emergency, anxiety takes over, numbers posted in addition to memorizing.

Lewis

9Emergency Template

Lewis

Lewis

10Outside

Stranger Danger

Teach the children to not get close to the vehicle or any adult.

No safe adult is going to be asking a child directions or asking them to help find their puppy.

11Outside

With a friend at all times

Child’s Boundaries: aware of where they can go.

Walk boundaries with the child. Puppy, train them by walking the yards.

Verbally, review them with the child.

Bus stop, all parents are present, however, it is a good habit to walk home with a friend.

Establish a safe house, good habit.

Lewis

12Lessons learned from children who pass the predator test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlzdB5-5NVc&feature=share&list=PLmLj8Q_zZ-M2n8FCyDgIpg_X1qGT9CHVk&index=2

Easton

13Outside

What happens when children fail the predator test?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1h8o8GGpWQ&list=PLmLj8Q_zZ-M2n8FCyDgIpg_X1qGT9CHVk&feature=share&index=3

Easton

14Police

Please discourage negative behavior towards the police. We NEED our children to associate the police as the people who will help.

Sonntag

15Police

Reality; as an adult if the police are pulling you over and giving you a speeding ticket, no one in the car is going to be happy. Be careful what your child hears you say.

Sonntag

16Gun Safety

Don't think you're child doesn't know where your gun is...They do!

        When sending your child to a sleepover, ask the parents if they own any guns.  It is YOUR Business!! 

Sonntag

17Gun Safety

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/guns-inaccessible-kids-22325631

Sonntag

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18Community

Wal-Mart Video

Sonntag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHnl_Vf3EJ4&feature=share&list=PLDaWTBqOSnV5cJghzAYRzEKwLqClxkX45

19Community

Make it a habit: at the beginning of any trip to a store, or an outing make sure that you predetermine an emergency meeting spot. Go to the spot with your child, make sure they understand. Takes one extra minute. Create a rhyme or a song for them to remember.

Sonntag

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District 117 does have a crisis plan in place.

Easton

21School

District 117 has crisis plans in place, educates the staff and holds regular drills to teach the children.

Please reinforce this at home with your children. We do not want the children to be afraid, however, we do need to be prepared.

Easton

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District 117 does have a lockdown procedure in place.

If there is a lockdown, parents do not come to the school to get their children.

Parents will slow down law enforcement and take away from the crisis.

District does have the capability to send out mass calls in case of a true emergency.

Assure you that there is a system in place.

Easton

23School

Easton

•If there is a lockdown, parents, do not come to the school to get your child. •Parents will slow down law enforcement and take away from the children. •District does have the capability to send out mass calls in case of a true emergency.•Assure you that there is a system in place.

24 District 117 does have a reunification plan in place. In case of a true emergency go to the reunification site.

Sorrick: Belvedere chateau, Roberts road and 103rd

Dorn: Hickory Hills Park District, 8047 W. 91st Pl, Hickory Hills, IL 60457

Easton

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Run, Yell and Tell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkmS8ZStOm8

Lewis

26Questions and Answers

Easton, Lewis, Sonntag