When the boys were little I took them to a kids’ seminar on what to do to be “stranger safe.” I have tried to find repeated messages throughout their growing years to continue to instill wise choices. Recently, I went to a cyber-bullying and internet safety forum with my 12 year old. Here at the Improve Group we have conducted evaluations for several Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant sites. Child safety is important to my highlighted funder as well as they encourage educators to help spread the message.

This week’s pick: Honeywell and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are teamed up for a grant contest called the Got 2B Safe! Awards. The Got 2B Safe program works to encourage the teaching of potentially life-saving personal safety skills to elementary children. The awards are intended for classroom teachers at schools (K-12) who have lesson plans emphasizing Got 2B Safe’s rules for personal safety. Five award winners will receive a $10,000 classroom makeover. Applications are due by March 23, 2009. For more information, click here.

FYI: Teachers may go to their site to download a Got 2B Safe Educational Kit for your classroom.