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Page 1 of 6 A Teacher Inservice Program
Written by Janiece Hopper for Safeguarding Our Children- United Mothers SOC-UM
Copyright 1995 Safeguarding Our Children- United Mothers
This facilitator handbook, to be used in conjunction with the program Celebrate Safety, was created by SOC-UM, a non-profit organization dedicated to community awareness, children's education, and prevention of child abuse.
Due to budget restrictions on education this program has been funded entirely through private donations.
Any reproductions, changes, or modifications must be approved by Safeguarding Our Children - United Mothers (SOC-UM). For additional information write or email:
SOC-UM 1878 W. 11th Street, Box 191 Tracy, CA 05376, (209) 832-5703,
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This handbook consists of:
- Sample Facilitator Letter
- Ten Steps to Facilitating Celebrate Safety
- Brief description of Celebrate Safety materials
- Agendas to copy for each teacher attending the inservice
- Inservice Outline for Pre- School - Grade 2 and for Grade 3- 6
- Teacher Inservice Program
- Letters to staff (enclose educational program hand-out with notice of inservice) and to parents
- Facilitator Idea Swap Form
- Teacher Feedback Form
- Teacher Testing Report Form
Sample Letter to Potential Facilitator
Dear __________________:
Thank you for becoming a Celebrate Safety Facilitator for your school. Celebrate Safety is an umbrella term for both of our child abuse prevention programs. Although our Celebrate Safety and Break the Silence- Yell and Tell teacher manuals are self-explanatory, we feel that having a facilitator at each school site is essential to our total program success.
As a facilitator, your commitment to Celebrate Safety will ensure that each student in your school receives the program's vital information. Thank you for accepting the responsibility of collecting and forwarding all student test results and teacher program evaluation forms to us.
The data will assist not only in improving the program, but also in securing funding to ensure that as many children as possible receive the advantage you've already given your own students.
I look forward to working with you and am very interested in any comments, questions, concerns, or ideas you'd like to share. As our program spreads nationwide, we will be publishing a newsletter for our Celebrate Safety Facilitators in which your comments and ideas may be featured. Thank you again for your commitment to children and the well-being of our society.
Sincerely,
Janiece Hopper, Director of Education
Safeguarding Our Children-United Mothers
Ten Steps to Facilitating Celebrate Safety at your School
Two staff members are welcome to share the Celebrate Safety Facilitator position.
1. Order your Celebrate Safety school-wide curriculum. Your package will contain:
- A brochure on the curriculum for each teacher to read before the inservice
- A teacher manual and diagnostics for each teacher
- One school copy of each of the following videos:
- SOC-UM's Celebrate Safety puppet program for Pre- Grade 2
- Break the Silence by Arnold Shapiro Productions for Grades 3-6
- SOC-UM's Break the Silence - Yell and Tell Teacher Inservice
- Celebrate Safety Facilitator Handbook
- Teacher feedback forms
2. Receive and review the materials. Establish a system through which fellow staff members can check-out the videos for classroom use.
3. Contact the CPS caseworker or police officer most likely to cover your school if/ when child abuse is reported by a staff member. Let them know about the program and when it will be presented to students. Make sure you are familiar with the reporting procedures. Your school nurse will be an excellent resource and support. Be willing to assist fellow staff members in following reporting procedures.
4. Arrange a meeting with all of your school's Pre-school - Grade 2 staff and facilitate their inservice. You will need to briefly discuss the program with Grade 2 teachers ahead of time as they have the option to choose between Celebrate Safety and Break the Silence- Yell and Tell depending on the experience and maturity of their individual classes.
5. Arrange a meeting with all of your school's Grade 3- 6 staff and facilitate their inservice.
Note the enclosed inservice agendas are the same up to the teacher feedback forms point. You may choose to conduct both inservices jointly to that point. Staff can then divide into two groups for the viewing of videos and implementation information.
6. Be ready to facilitate new staff members' orientation to the curricula.
7. Schedule an annual showing of the classroom videos for parents and guardians.
8. Create a school-wide recognition program for classes completing the program. Examples include: individual and class certificates, pencils, stickers, bulletin boards in libraries or cafeterias, assemblies, announcements in school newsletters and local newspapers.
9. Upon completion of the program collect each teacher's test results and feedback form and forward all forms to SOC-UM.
10. You may wish to keep hand-outs from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on hand for interested parents and staff members. Original order forms are included in the Facilitator handbook.
Congratulate yourself on providing an invaluable service for all the children at your school, your colleagues, future generations, and society at large.
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