KidSmartz

10/25/2024

Halloween is next week! 🎃👻🐈‍⬛

As kids conjure up their costumes and get ready to haunt the neighborhood with trick-or-treating fun, it’s important to make sure they stay safe.

Follow these faBOOlous safety tips from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to ensure a fun and safe Halloween for everyone. https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2024/halloween-safety-tips-beware-of-the-tricks

10/23/2023

Halloween is next week and everyone is ready for a night of excitement, scary fun, and lots of treats! 🎃

As children from all over are full of anticipation, it’s important for parents to keep their little ones safe this by following these safety tips: https://missingkids.org/blog/2022/spook-tacular-halloween-safet-tips

07/14/2023

EMPOWER CHILDREN!
ACTION is crucial in potential abductions.

83% of children who escaped their would-be abductors took proactive steps by running, yelling, kicking, or pulling away.

Set up a safety plan for your kids: http://missingkids.org/education/kids

05/11/2022

70% of children who escaped their would-be abductors did something proactive. They ran away, yelled, kicked, or pulled away.

https://missingkids.org/education/kidsmartz

Police are looking for a man who is wanted after allegedly grabbing two 12-year-old girls while they were walking to school.

04/02/2020

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Child sexual abuse HAS happened to someone you know.
If we don’t talk about it, it won’t stop.
https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/csam

12/20/2019

Who would steal a baby?
.. And why? NCMEC wanted to better understand this rare and unique crime and analyzed these 19 open cases and 535 other non-family infant abductions that were solved or closed over the same time.

Who Would Steal a Baby? Patricia Davis 11-25-2019 Kindness was their M.O. The women befriended new moms – one in a hospital lobby, another at a train station, a third at a carnival – and could not have been nicer. The strangers fawned over the babies and offered to watch them to give the new mom...

12/13/2019

Teaching children about abduction safety is important.

Read our KidSmartz tip sheet: https://bit.ly/2YJ3OJS

"He stated at one point, he used the mother and one child as a human shield to shield himself from the people that were following him," according to Andrew Rizzo's