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Children Be Aware
Children Be Aware, MAP's program for helping parents protect their kids, focuses on the "unthinkable" while also addressing more normal risks. Thousands of parents in Michigan have had their children fingerprinted via the program. They've done so in order to create identification records that would greatly assist law enforcement officers if one of their little ones were abducted or got lost.

"There's no doubt that the cost-free fingerprinting service deals with possibilities that no parent ever likes to consider," said MAP Community Programs Coordinator Penny Cantin. "No one is happy to ponder the reasons why it's a good idea. Stated directly, it's all about the threat of their kids being abducted or getting lost. More and more parents are realizing this and Children Be Aware is dedicated to helping them."

Penny has been in charge of this program since the late 1980's, and the demand for it continues to grow. The program is primarily available through local schools, but businesses that wish to sponsor a day of fingerprinting are more than welcome to do so. U.S. Storage Depot is one company who has stepped up to the plate to help protect our children by sponsoring the recent events in Clinton Twp. and Wixom.

They did so again in Ann Arbor during the weekend of September 17th. Other areas of the state participating in this project during the month of September include Midland and Wyoming.

This past summer MAP staff and law enforcement officials from the Reed City area printed hundreds of children and gave the fingerprint cards to the parents. Also participating in the Reed City event were members of the local fire department as well as EMS officials.
 

21 Safety Tips To Help Prevent Abduction
Preventing child abduction relies heavily upon parents willingness to discuss the problem with their children. We urge parents to take the time to discuss these prevention tips with your children.

Help your children to...
• LEARN about abduction at an early age
• LEARN what a stranger really is
• LEARN how to use the telephone, including pay phones
• "BUDDY UP" while walking to school, try not to walk home alone
• AVOID wearing clothes with their names on them

Never...
• Volunteer information on the telephone
• Open the door to strangers
• Go anywhere without your parents permission
• Accept gifts or candy from strangers
• Go into a public bathroom alone
• Approach a car to offer directions
• Agree to meet anyone in person that you have met on the Internet without first telling
  your parents

Make sure...
• To contact someone if you feel something or someone is suspicious
• You talk to your parents about anyone who approaches you offering gifts, treats,
  or wants to take your picture
• Your parents know who your friends are
• Your parents list emergency numbers such as police, fire, ambulance, friends
  & neighbors
• You tell your parents if someone has asked you to keep a secret
• If you are being followed, and cannot run home safely or to a public place,
  YELL FOR HELP

No one has the right to...
• Touch you on any part of your body a bathing suit covers. Don't be afraid to tell if that
  happens

You have the right to...
• Say "NO." Adults do not have the right to ask you to something that you have been
  taught is wrong