A Child's Security and Crime Prevention Center

Many people feel that children should be sheltered from such heavy topics like crime, drugs, and violence. Unfortunately, most children are already aware of these occurrences in their neighborhood, the media, and in some cases, even in the home. This is why it’s important to educate children about crime, drug, and violence prevention.

Children have highly impressionable minds so the lessons they learn would help to prepare them to meet future challenges for the duration of their lives. It’s the duty of parents, educators, and law enforcement officers to protect the children and assist them to develop the necessary skills to protect themselves. Many law enforcement officers and social workers go to schools or community events to educate children about crime, drugs, and violence. To communicate more effectively with children on these sensitive topics, the crime prevention cartoon like McGruff the Crime Dog can be used to commute the essential messages on a deeper level.

Follow these links to learn more about security and crime prevention for children.

For Children

• Internet Safety: Some games that teaches children about Internet safety.
• Online Safety: Games and activities to promote online safety.
• Safety Tips: Provides safety tips about strangers, guns, and the Internet.
• Don’t Talk to Strangers: Coloring page with Safety Bear.
• Stop Bullying: Interactive site to help children prevent bullying.
• Beat the Bully: A game that shows children how to avoid bullies.
• Gun Safety: Provides information and information about gun safety.
• Alcohol & the Brain: Learn about how alcohol affects the brain.
• D.A.R.E.: Official website of Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
• My Room: Interactive site for kids by the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission.
• The Dangers of Drinking: Explains the dangers of drinking as well as drunk driving.
• Child Abduction Prevention: Learn 30 ways to help prevent child abduction.

For Teachers

• If Stranger is a Danger: Lesson plan that teaches children about stranger safety.
• Little Red Riding Hood: Based on the cherished tale, the lesson plan also includes a stranger rules checklist.
• Drug Prevention: A number of lesson plans to teach children about drug prevention.
• Substance Abuse: A web quest to educate children about substance abuse.
• Bullying: Lesson plan and activity to teach children about bullying.
• The Crime Prevention Coloring Book: A great way for children to learn about crime prevention.
• Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program: Good tool to educate children about gun safety.
• Dark Highways: Lesson on drunk driving for Grade 10 to 12.
• Shattered: Resource guide for teaching about dangers of drinking and driving.
• Educational Videos: Catalog of videos at the National Center for Victims of Crime.
• Self Defense: Online instructions to learn about disarming a gun, defending against a knife, and more.
• Internet Safety: Lesson plans, activities, and worksheets to teach children about Internet safety.

For Professionals

• NCPC: Official site of the National Crime Prevention Council.
• San Diego Police Department: Provides crime prevention tips and information on programs, activities, neighborhood watch, and more.
• McGruff: Home of the Crime Dog and Scruff.
• BCCPA: Home page of the British Columbia Crime Prevention Association.
• Texas Crime Prevention Association: Provides information on membership, training conferences, crime prevention, and others.
• Crime Stoppers International: Crime prevention organization with chapters around the world.
• Fight Crime: An organization that invest in kids to prevent them from becoming criminals.
• NASSLEO: Official website of the National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers.
• NIDA: Homepage of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• OJJDP: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
• STOP: The federal organization to stop alcohol abuse.

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