by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | Jun 15, 2022
We would greatly appreciate your taking 5 minutes to fill out this anonymous survey. Your answers will help us to reach out to and inspire businesses that share our values to partner with Kidpower by supporting our work. Our goal is that everyone will have access to the knowledge and skills that we teach, for […]
by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | May 30, 2022
En octubre de 1999, cuando habían pasado solo unos meses de la masacre en la escuela Columbine High School, un niño de seis años me preguntó durante un taller de Kidpower en su escuela: “¿Qué pasará si alguien comienza a dispararles a los niños en nuestra escuela?”
by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | May 25, 2022
In October 1999, a few months after the tragic school shooting at Columbine High School, a six-year-old asked me during our Kidpower classroom workshop, “What if someone starts shooting kids at our school?” Along with all the adults in the room, my heart sank at hearing this question that NO child should ever have to […]
by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | May 9, 2022
“I have worked as a crisis-response consultant to help over a dozen schools and youth-serving organizations to recover after they have had to face a sexual abuse case in their community. In each case, people involved at all levels have said repeatedly, ‘Now that we have been through this, I would have done EVERYTHING in […]