Kidpower Instructor Training Certification Program

by | Nov 1, 2016

Kidpower’s 6-day CPTs are an opportunity to learn and teach Kidpower’s social safety and physical safety skills for yourself and with real students, with expert coaching support in a positive and accelerated learning environment. This training offers the opportunity to practice Kidpower’s safety skills for yourself, practice teaching to others, observe experienced people teaching, and then to see, teach, and practice personal safety safety skills in real workshops with real students.

October is Bullying Awareness Month – Kidpower Resources for Positive Peer Communication

by | Oct 8, 2015

The reason we call our programs Positive Peer Communication, is because our approach is to teach the skills we want young people and adults to build for respectful self-advocacy, boundary setting, and effectively getting help. These skills do help to prevent bullying and harassment — and even more importantly: they are the same skills that help everyone to build positive, healthy relationships and a culture of safety and respect in their families, schools, communities, and workplaces.

Kidpower International HQ and California Center

by | Mar 27, 2015

Kidpower International and our California Center are both run from our Central Office in Santa Cruz, California. Our strategy is to “serve locally and share globally.” From our Central Office HQ, we support instructor training, curriculum development, and program quality for our centers across the United States and around the world — and directly oversee the organizing and teaching of workshops throughout California.

Featured California Organizers

by | Dec 12, 2014

Community-Based Kidpower Workshop Organizers, We Say THANK YOU! More than 95% of Kidpower workshops are coordinated by teachers, social service providers, business owners, scout troop leaders, parents, and so on. These community-based Workshop Organizers give their time and energy to bring a workshop to others in their community. Many arrange workshops year after year! As a direct result of their efforts, people of all ages and abilities learn skills to have safer, more positive experiences with people everywhere they go.

Creating Positive Social Climates to Stop Bullying Kidpower Tools for Adult Leaders

by | Sep 8, 2014

Our physical and social climates impact our quality of life and can determine whether or not harmful behaviors such as bullying will be allowed to grow. As leaders responsible for the well-being of others, particularly young people, we have significant power to affect the social climate. Whether or not we are aware of our power and its impact, it makes a tremendous difference in whether our kids are learning, playing, and living in positive social climates or negative ones.

Be Safety Nets, Parachutes, and Guides – Not Smothering Blankets

by | Apr 1, 2014

The real problem is NOT appropriate protection but mistaken, confusing, and inconsistent protection leading to anxiety and knee-jerk reactions that do not make anyone safer. Yes, we need to be tolerant of reasonable risks instead of smothering kids by wrapping them in so many blankets that they cannot move.
At the same time, it is irresponsible to abandon kids to fate without adequate preparation and knowledge about how the world works.