What is CAPP
What is C.A.P.P.?
C.A.P.P. is a program that teaches children along with their parents about childhood abduction. Our programs focus on four areas:
- Information children should know
- Keeping yourself safe
- Tactics used by perpetrators
- Physical self-defense
C.A.P.P. is taught in a positive manner. Teaching methods avoid causing fear in the child by, instead, improving their self-esteem and giving them the confidence to assess certain situations and how to react to them. We want to serve as a catalyst that stimulates and encourages parent-child conversation on the importance and the methods of keeping them safe. Our reach has shown that the most effective way to teach children this is through role playing and actually practicing the self-defense method so it becomes a natural reaction to potential problems.
Why do we need C.A.P.P. youth programs?
We all have been exposed to the horror of what a family goes through when their child is missing. In recent years, abductions have been in the forefront of news broadcasts with terrified families desperately pleading for the safe return of their child. Entire communities have come together to search for a missing child only to sadly find that they are too late.
Our children need to be educated and trained so that the have the understanding and the skills to avoid and defuse potentially harmful situations. They need to develop the confidence to recognize when there is a problem and how to handle it in a proactive and assertive manner. Child predators avoid confident children and will “test” a child to see if the child is a good target. If the child shows any assertion the predator will likely abandon that intended abduction. There is a need to educate our children on ways to stay safe from child predators. With this knowledge we can keep our children safe.