Continue Teaching Safety Skills

Tools, support, and next steps for your work with young people

Start using these skills right away—and get support when you want it.

(For attendees of Vermont’s Substance Misuse Prevention Conference: Bridging the Gaps: Prevention Through Connection, May 5, 2026)

Skills & concepts you can teach today

  • Kidpower’s Boundary Rules

  • Kidpower’s Consent Checklist

  • Setting boundaries with the 5 Levels of Intrusion

  • Calm Down Power

Try this tomorrow

Heart Power: Build confidence by taking in compliments

Try this:

  • Give a child a genuine compliment

  • Coach them to put both hands on their heart and say “Thank you!”

Tip: Focus on what they do (effort, kindness, bravery), not appearance.

Young child sitting on floor with hands crossed over her heart. Text: Taking in kindness can help build healthy self-esteem, which helps to protect kids from abuse.
Young child sitting on floor with hands crossed over her heart. Text: Taking in kindness can help build healthy self-esteem, which helps to protect kids from abuse.

These tools are a starting point. Kidpower teaches a wide range of skills for preventing harm.

Make teaching safety a part of your routine

If you want support…

  • Bringing workshops to your school or organization

  • Training staff to teach and reinforce these skills

  • Integrating safety skills into your programs

If you’re thinking about how to bring these skills into your setting, let’s talk.

Email Laura Slesar at laura@kidpower.org or schedule a time on my calendar.

I’ll be happy to talk through what this could look like in your setting.