CHILD SAFETY TIPS
Teach your Children!
- Cover the Basics: Reherse with your children their full names, address,
and phone number (including area code) and how to make emergency phone
calls.
- Walk the neighborhood with your children. Show them safe places they can
go in an emergency, such as a trusted neighbor's house or an open store.
- Tell your children NEVER to accept gifts or rides from someone they
don't know well.
- Teach your children to go to a store clerk or security guard and ask
for help if you become separated in a store or shopping mall. Tell them to
NEVER go out into the parking lot alone.
- Accompany your children to public restrooms.
- Teach your children that no one has a right to touch them in a
way that makes them feel uncomfortable; and that they can say NO to
an adult in this situation.
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SCHOOL AND PLAY SAFETY TIPS
- Make sure your children are taking the safest route to school or to
friends' homes. Walk the routes with your children.
- Teach your children to waks confidently and stay alert to what is going on
around them.
- Teach your children to never walk or play alone outside. Also, teach them
to stay in well-lighted, open areas where others can see them.
- Teach them to look out for each other, and to report anything that
doesn't seem right.
- Tell your children to stay away from strangers who hang around
playgrounds, public restrooms, and empty buildings.
- Teach your children to write down and report to you the license numbers of
people who try to offer them rides, loiter around playgrounds,
or appear to follow them home.
- Teach your children that when approached by a stranger in a car
to NEVER go near the car. Teach them to walk in the opposite direction.
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AT HOME ALONE
- Make sure your children know how to reach you by phone. Post your
work number, along with a number for a trusted neighbor, the Police
Department and the Fire Department, beside every phone in the house. Teach your
children how to use 9-1-1.
- Have your children check in with you at work or with a neighbor when
they get home. Establish and enforce rules for having friends over, or going
to someone else's house when no adult is present.
- Work out an escape plan in case of fire.
- Teach your children to NEVER open the door to a stranger when they are
home alone. Teach them to never tell a stranger who calls on the phone that
they are home alone. Teach them to say that their parents are busy, can they
take a message.
- Teach your children how to work all the door and window locks in the
house.
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WHO TO CALL FOR ASSISTANCE AND/OR ADVICE:
Child Protective Services : 53-ABUSE (532-2873)
Alamo Children's Advocacy Center: 270-4635
San Antonio Police Victim's Advocacy Section: 207-2141
San Antonio Police Sex Crimes Unit: 207-2313
Child Abuse Prevention Services: 829-KIDS
Heidi Search Center: 650-0428
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