Safety Zone Advocacy, Inc. believes it takes the community working as a whole to protect its children from sexual predators and pedophiles. Believing that education and prevention are the key to protecting children.

Safety Zone Advocacy, Inc. has developed a series of programs that are geared towards specific segments of the community. Below you will find an overview of the programs and services Safety Zone Advocacy, Inc. provides for concerned parents, community stakeholders and youth.

 
Safety Zone Youth Patrol Manual and Training Program's


Through this program youth will have an opportunity to learn and practice different ways of being safe through workshops that are short, upbeat, and experiential. The skills they will learn will help them to stop most abuse, abduction, assault, and bullying. Workshops are tailored to the ages and life situations of the children, but all Safety Zone Youth Patrol education components will have the following elements:

We focus on the positive.
This means we use workshop time to explore and practice skills that can prevent, avoid, de-escalate, or stop a problem as soon as possible. We do not use scare tactics or stories that focus on children being victimized.

We create opportunities for “learning by doing.”
Instead of spending much time discussing problems, we have children practice what to do to prevent or stop those problems. This means our students actually practice – with their bodies and with their voices – the skills they are learning, and they are coached so that they experience success.

We use matter-of-fact language that is not fear-based.
This means, for example, that students practice skills for stranger safety, not “stranger danger.” We coach students to be aware, not “wary.” We practice skills to stop unwanted touch and attention rather than talking about “bad touch.” The goal of each level of youth programming will be to establish a Safety Zone Youth Patrol Team. The concept of this team is simple: Young people work together in a formal structure, with help from adults, to patrol the community in small groups, acting non-confrontationally, to educate their peers and the young children in the community to be safe and to avoid situations and individuals that could place them in harm. They are not tasked to apprehend criminals.

Enlisting young people as active partners in building a safer community increases their commitment to prevention, provides additional help in spotting trouble or possible trouble, and reduces fear and crime. General rules and regulations of a student patrol will be:

- Students will be supervised by an adult advisor.

- Students will not intervene in any crime, they will simply report it.

- Students will educate themselves and their peers on best practices to staying safe in their communities.

- Students will receive quality training in how to respond to situations.