Stranger Danger Awareness Training

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Children take a trip through Tammy Town, a traveling “scenario” based” training town, geared to prepare children for encounters with strangers. Children learn about community helpers, how they can be utilized during an emergency by dialing 911.

During scenario based training exercises children learn to recognize people and places they can go to for help should a stranger ask them to go with them, help them find their dog, offer them a ride, or a gift.

Children will role play various scenarios, chosen randomly when they spin the 36” wheel, with fellow classmates. Children play the role of both student and community helper to help them understand what a community helper’s role is during an actual emergency.

Scenario based training is a necessary step up from lecture style courses in that it gives children a memory, a file in their memory cabinet, which will help them during an actual emergency.

Fear absent of planning creates panic. We take the panic away by teaching children what to do. Instead they will remember, “I’ve been here before.” They are trained to say no, walk away and tell someone they trust.”

Railway Safety

This course is designed to keep children, teens and adults safe around railway crossings. Students learn facts about trains and the hazards that exist along railroad tracks. Specifically how long it takes for a train to stop, how size and weight effect the distance required for a train to stop and the effects of a heavier object on a lighter object.

Students will learn what traffic signs are posted in the community, when and where to cross the railroad tracks and what laws are in place to keep people safe around town and railway crossings.

Students will role play several safety scenarios geared to help them resist peer pressure or an impulse to save time by crossing in undesignated areas, or by walking on or along the railway tracks.

Halloween Safety Training

Halloween has proven to be the single most dangerous day of the year for children.  Children are more than twice as likely to get hit by cars and killed on Halloween than any other day of the year.  This course is designed to teach children important safety measures to keep them safe on Halloween, while trick or treating.  During scenario based training exercises, children will learn the importance of trick or treating in a group, accompanied by a parent, during daylight hours.  Why we should plan our route, cross the street at designated crossings, and only go to well lit houses we know, and public places like police and fire departments.  Children will learn why we only accept candy from the door and why they must never go with, or  inside anyone’s house or car.  Children will learn why it is important to choose costumes that are bright to increase visibility, and sized properly so they don’t trip.  Students will also learn why their candy must be inspected by a parent and why we limit our candy intake.  Children reinforce these safety tips during safety scenarios geared to keep them safe on Halloween, chosen randomly when they spin the wheel.  Children will practice playing the role of community helper and student so they will know the responsibilities of each person during an actual emergency.  Children will learn to say no, and go tell someone they trust to dial 911, should a stranger, or someone they do not know very well, ask them to go with them, offers candy, a ride, follows them, or requests their help.  Children will learn the only responsibility of a community helper is to dial 911, they are not allowed to go with them, help them, take gifts or go inside their house or car, because they don’t know them either.   Children learn to wait with the community helper until a uniformed police officers arrives to assist them.

Medical Emergency Preparedness Training

During this training program, children will learn to recognize medical emergencies, those incidents wherein a parent or caregiver, or friend, may need them to dial 911 should they require medical attention following a fall, unresponsiveness, traumatic injury, seizure, low blood sugar, or other medical emergency.  During scenario based training exercises, children will role play various situations involving medical emergencies and why it may be necessary for them to dial 911.  Children will learn why it will be important for them to stay calm, tell the 911 operator what happened, their location, open the door, and stay on the phone until medical personnel and police arrive.  Training exercises will emphasize the importance of staying calm, telling the 911 operator what happened and where they are.  Children will learn why it is important they learn their address and telephone number.   Children will also learn how to recognize what situations are and are not an emergency requiring a police and fire department response.  Safety worksheets will be provided to assist children learning their address, telephone number, and situations requiring a police and fire response.

Bicycle Safety

Children learn about the importance and proper use of safety equipment, hand signals and the rules of the road. Students reinforce their new skills with a bicycle road course.

Severe Weather Training

Students learn why it is important to be aware of current weather conditions, the difference between watches and warnings, and the purpose of tornado sirens. They learn what to do if they hear the tornado siren, and what they can expect from 911.

2015 Public Events

Past Events

Tuesday, June 17, 2014,
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Schaumburg Township District Library
Stranger Danger Preparedness Training
130 S. Roselle Road
Schaumburg, Illinois 60193
**Presentation will be hosted outside in Town Square.

Thursday, July 31, 2014
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Co-Sponsored by the West Chicago and Winfield Park Districts
Reed Keppler Park
Stranger Danger Preparedness Training
129 W. National Street
West Chicago, Illinois 60185
Directly across from the Turtle/Water Park on the basket ball courts.
**Registration required at (630) 231-9474

Tuesday, August 5, 2014
6:00 p.m.  –  8:30 p.m.
South Elgin Police Department,
National Night Out at Concord Park
Stranger Danger Street Smart Safety Training
On Concord Ave. between Valley Forge Ave. and Medford St.
South Elgin, Illinois 60177

Saturday, September 27, 2014
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Bartlett Public Library
Stranger Danger Preparedness Training
800 S. Bartlett Road
Bartlett, Illinois 60103

Saturday, April 28, 2012
11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Girl Scouts Northern Illinois
100th Anniversary Celebration
NIU Convocation Center
1525 West Lincoln Highway
DeKalb, IL 60115-2854

Saturday, May 12, 2012
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Roselle Public Library
Stranger Danger
Preparedness Training
40 South Park Street, Roselle, Illinois

Saturday, June 2, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Schaumburg, Home Depot
Safety Saturday / Stranger Danger Preparedness Training
100 Barrington Road, Schaumburg, Illinois

Tuesday, August 6, 2012
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
South Elgin Police Department, National Night Out at Concord Park
Stranger Danger – Street Smart Safety Training
On Concord Ave. between Valley Forge Ave. and Medford St. in South Elgin, Illinois

Saturday,  September 15, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Kindercare – Open House
Stranger Danger/Severe Weather Preparedness Training
800 S. Route 83, Mundelein, Illinois 60060

Saturday, September 29, 2012
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Bartlett Public Library
Stranger Danger
Preparedness Training
800 S. Bartlett Road, Bartlett, Illinois

Saturday, October 6th, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Schaumburg, Home Depot
Stranger Danger Preparedness Training
100 Barrington Road, Schaumburg, Illinois

October 13, 2012
Noon – 2 p.m.
Fire & Safety Festival
Fire Station #1
Stranger Danger – Street Smart Training
103 E. Beaver Street, Yorkville, Illinois 60560

Saturday, March 30, 2013
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
Stranger Danger Preparedness Training
500 N. Dunton Avenue
Arlington Heights, Illinois
*Must have a AH Library card to register for this event.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
South Elgin Police Department, National Night Out at Concord Park
Stranger Danger – Street Smart Safety Training
On Concord Ave. between Valley Forge Ave. and Medford St. in South Elgin, Illinois

Saturday, August 10, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Kensington School
Stranger Danger Awareness Training
Open House Celebration
4512 Walton Heath
Naperville, Illinois 60564

September 7, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Bartlett Public Library District
Back to School – Stranger Danger Awareness Training
800 S. Bartlett Road
Bartlett, Illinois 60103

Private Events

Private events are available… and not posted online. 😉