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SENSE OF SAFETY INITIATIVE
In partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department, University of Southern California’s Safe Communities Institute and the Safe Communities Institute we’ve launched the Sense of Safety Initiative. This national campaign is designed for ages Pre-K – 3rd grade, a vulnerable and overlooked age-group, with the goal of teaching situational, action and sensory awareness skills that kids can apply in the event of a dangerous situation.
SENSE OF SAFETY INITIATIVE
In partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department, University of Southern California’s Safe Communities Institute and the Safe Communities Institute we’ve launched the Sense of Safety Initiative. This national campaign is designed for ages Pre-K – 3rd grade, a vulnerable and overlooked age-group, with the goal of teaching situational, action and sensory awareness skills that kids can apply in the event of a dangerous situation.
Chief Michel R. Moore, Chief of Police Los Angeles
“The LAPD’s partnership with Rocket Rules has strengthened our outreach in the neighborhoods while building a sense of safety for our children. Rocket’s “Use your Senses Storybook” empowers them to be safe at all times.”
Los Angeles School Police Chief Todd Chamberlain
“Providing the students of the Los Angeles Unified School District with the essential tools to recognize potential dangers is vital to the safety of our school community. The Los Angeles School Police Department is proud to partner with The Hero in You Foundation to present Rocket Rules Sense of Safety throughout the schools that we protect. Our mission from day one is to protect with compassion, courage, and professionalism. In doing so, we can continue to build the positive rapport between students and law enforcement that will carry on for years to come.”
TESTIMONIALS
“Rocket’s Rules for Safety provides an excellent foundation for youth first learning about emergencies and how to keep themselves safe. It’s important that families start these conversations early, and this program provides a fun and memorable way to introduce emergency preparedness to our nation’s most vulnerable.”
James Lee Witt, Former Director of FEMA and National Safety Expert
On behalf of the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, we would like to thank The Hero In You Foundation’s Rocket Rules safety program for all their contributions to help LAPD carry out our mission to protect, serve and educate, for a safer Los Angeles.
Captain Alex Baez, Commanding Officer Southwest Patrol Division, LAPD
“As a school principal, we often find ourselves entrenched with getting our students academically prepared for the next grade level. But first and foremost on my mind is students’ safety. Unfortunately I don’t have the opportunity to teach students about personal safety and emergency preparedness on a regular basis. So having a program like Rocket Rules, that prepares students and gives them the skills and the strategies to respond to an emergency is essential. It gives me the confidence that my students not only know what to do in an event, but can teach their families as well.”
Todd Biggert, Principal Herbert Hoover Elementary, California
“Rocket Rules is an exceptional tool to prepare our children, the leaders of tomorrow, about Emergency Preparedness. It is a fascinating experience to personally watch the children listen to Rocket and react to the conversation. The printed material conveys the same message in a fun and informative manner. Thanks Rocket for your contribution.”
Ted Weill, Council member, Rancho Mirage
“With more people moving into hurricane vulnerable areas, it is imperative that families have hurricane preparedness plans in place. As National Weather Service Weather Ready Ambassadors, Rocket’s Hurricane Safety Activity Book provides information and a safety checklist on how children and their families can be weather ready before, during, and after a storm.”
Daniel Brown, Senior Hurricane Specialist - NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center
“It’s about those young people and giving them a sense of security and a sense of safety, a resilience and a path forward to understand what should happen. Should we pray that they never have to use this, but if they do, that they have a sense of control and a sense of an outcome they can influence by their own personal actions.”
Michel Moore, Los Angles Chief of Police
“As a 39-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department, I’ve seen firsthand the ramifications of not being prepared for a fire or other emergency. There are multitudes of educational programs across the country, but a scarce few target young children, our most vulnerable population. Rocket’s educational material are spot-on in their content, and more importantly are designed in a manner that will facilitate the understanding and remembering the vital steps to emergency preparation, undoubtedly helping to save someone’s life.”
Joseph Castro, Chief Deputy Los Angeles Fire Department Commander
“The Rocket Rules approach is impeccably informed and wildly effective at exciting children about the important topic of preparedness. This timely program honors the work of our nation’s first responders by sparking children’s imaginations to follow in their footsteps. My hats off for a job well done, but far from over.”
Dennis S. Mileti, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado Boulder
“Rocket’s Rules for Safety will definitely pay big dividends in the future because we can never be sure when an emergency’s going to occur. Unfortunately, as in the national and global news recently, disasters occur all too frequently. The fact that our students are being educated in what to do when that event occurs is literally a life saver.”
Scott Bailey, Superintendent Desert Sands Unified School District
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