The two most important words that drives loving, caring, compassionate, people of all races working together for the most noble mission a community could ever undertake:
Safe Streets For All Kids!
Here is what KPN is now and has been for many years.
There are three leaders in a community that are key contacts to insure your efforts have the best chance to work: Chief of Police, Mayor, and Superintendent of Schools. Being in compliance with all protocols for posting signs on city streets and state highways is critical. Public Works in a given community would post the signs in areas all area would have the most impact.
Grass-roots movements are street-level everyday folks kind of projects and KPN is no exception. No compensation for the work, all volunteer for those who have worked for KPN to the folks in the communities who have taken the initiative to bring a KPN presence into their neighborhood, their community.
The Lions Club bought the first 50 signs for the two communities our regional school district covered. The signs started going up on bus routes, parks, downtown, neighborhood streets and the entrance points to schools and points of entry driving into a given community. The KPN sign speaks a universal language: We will educate ourselves to the issues of crime our kids face at the local level. We will focus our attention on the streets in a way that enables each of us to see the community with open eyes being especially vigilant to those possibilites that could impact the safety of ALL the community's kids and if a child is in distress or worse use the cellphone to call 911 to mobilize help for that child in their critical moments of need.
Talk to the Big 3. Partnerup with the law-enforcement community to get to know the kinds of crime the children of your community face and develop a plan of action to stop those crimes before they happen.
The police can not do it alone.
Next time you see a member of the law-enforcement community stop them and thank them for their service to your community. We don't stop near enough in this day and age to thank those who do right by us and to put one's life on the line day after day for the highest standards of public safety for that community is priceless.
Partnership. Community Watch. Word of mouth. One neighborhood at a time, one person at a time.
The Power of One.
Only takes one sex offender to do what kind of damage that can not be reversed?
Community Watch.
It can be done and it works. Block watches, neighborhood watches. If you already have them pump life back into them and get the message out to child predators you will NOT tolerate them terrorizing any child not today not ever
NEVER!
Child ID Kits. ID Fairs to have the kids fingerprinted and photographed in the format used by your local police department. Taking off the blinders to SEE around you just what the kids face everyday they step off the front porch to go to a bus stop.
Do something to help your kids in your community be safe. It doesn't have to be KPN. There are many outstanding programs out there to tap into. Do your part to help pump life back into projects that are already established in your community. Just remember the two most important words that serve to drive and define our legacy as a community security system:
WE TRIED.
Kid Protection Network is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 It is the business of the community to raise all kids on the safest streets possible, not a business to profit from.
