I am delighted to introduce you to one of the remarkable people in our Kidpower community who has created a unique way of teaching our safety skills to children.
JingleJeff Luna-Sparks is a talented music teacher who has inspired thousands of children with his love of music and song. His elementary students perform at The Children’s National Honor Choir and Disneyland.
Many years ago, when I watched the performance concluding Jeff’s Kidpower: The Musical summer camp, I was blown away to see children on the stage in his backyard demonstrating and teaching Kidpower skills with great confidence and enthusiasm.
This summer, Jeff’s Kidpower: The Musical two-week camp session is again available to families with children ages 5-10 in the East San Francisco Bay area.
Along with all the wonderful other activities in JingleJeff’s programs, campers will learn, practice, perform, and present Kidpower songs and gain essential safety skills in how to prevent and solve problems with people.
These skills prepare young people to stay emotionally and physically safe with people they know and with people they don’t – in person and online. JingleJeff is a certified provider for Kidpower International.
Jingle Jamboree’s summer and holiday camp sessions, school programs, and afterschool clubs provide a fun-filled, joyful, and warm-hearted space where kids learn music through the Kodály Method, as well as playing games and creating interesting crafts.
Would you like to learn how to teach Kidpower safety lessons for your family, camp, club, school, or other youth program? Take a look below at two of our over 400 educational resources.
Kidpower 30-Skill Coaching Handbook
Join thousands of parents, youth group leaders, educators, and counselors worldwide in using our Kidpower 30-Skills Coaching Handbook to prepare children and teens to stay safe from bullying and abuse and to have more fun and fewer problems with people. This valuable resource is free of charge thanks to our donors.
Kidpower Song and Chants
These engaging songs and chants make Kidpower’s social-emotional safety lessons fun and easy to remember for kids – and people who used to be kids!
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Published: April 1, 2025 | Last Updated: April 1, 2025
Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director
Kidpower Founder and Executive Irene van der Zande is a master at teaching safety through stories and practices and at inspiring others to do the same. Her child protection and personal safety expertise has been featured by USA Today, CNN, Today Moms, the LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Publications include: cartoon-illustrated Kidpower Safety Comics and Kidpower Teaching Books curriculum; Bullying: What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe; the Relationship Safety Skills Handbook for Teens and Adults; Earliest Teachable Moment: Personal Safety for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers; The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence, and Advocacy for Young People, and the Amazon Best Seller Doing Right by Our Kids: Protecting Child Safety at All Levels.