Books

Books to instill hope and build trustful relationships

Every book in the Safe Kids Now Network library grew out of real work in real neighborhoods. They are written for the people who use them: parents, teens, city leaders, faith groups, and neighbors who simply want to look out for one another.

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Youth ages 12 to 17

Magical You!

Written for youth ages 12 to 17. Magical You! uses true-life stories and lessons to help teens trust their own strength, stay centered so they don’t become a bully or a victim, and track their growth with an Attitude Barometer and other tools built for young readers.

Magical YOU is filled to the brim with valuable advice to help us reach our full magical potential. It’s a must-read for teens of all ages.

Ava, age 17
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Parents, grandparents and educators

Empowerment Parenting

How to raise resilient children to become happy, self reliant adults, and how to protect them online. Empowerment Parenting gives parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches and educators the tools to help a child become centered, responsible and self aware, so they can recognize the tactics of bullies and abusers and reject drugs and gangs.

I couldn’t put this book down. In my opinion, every community, church, family and school should have this book.

Deborah Faith Taylor, President and Founder, Wings of Love, Memphis, Tennessee
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My First Steps to a Safe NeighborhoodSafe Kids Now

Booklet series

My First Steps to a Safe Neighborhood

Created with the CARR Foundation for police, health care providers, insurance agents and business owners to hand out to the people they serve. This pocket sized booklet helps neighbors come together to prevent crime, and helps a victim’s neighbors keep criminals from coming back.

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The Adopt-A-Block GuidebookSafe Kids Now

Church and civic groups

The Adopt-A-Block Guidebook

A down to earth, do it yourself guide to community organizing. Written for church groups and civic organizations whose members already know and trust each other, it gives any group of neighbors the tools to make positive, lasting change on their own block.

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SKN Small Book Series: Empower Youth to Make Good ChoicesSafe Kids Now

Small book series

SKN Small Book Series: Empower Youth to Make Good Choices

The first title in a new small book series built on the values that made America great: Family, Faith and Freedom. Short, focused, and easy to share with a young person who needs it.

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The Unlimited Potential of a Child’s SpiritSafe Kids Now

Families, educators, community leaders

The Unlimited Potential of a Child’s Spirit

Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a crime prevention specialist and speaker, this book blends heart, hope and hands on tools to help families, educators and community leaders unlock what is possible in every child.

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Alternative to Fear: Guidelines to Safer NeighborhoodsSafe Kids Now

Free download

Alternative to Fear: Guidelines to Safer Neighborhoods

The book that helped launch the national Neighborhood Watch program. In 1975, this guide showed how one community of 17,500 residents cut crime in half in two and a half years, without a local police department. Funded by the California Department of Youth Authority and distributed to thousands of police departments, libraries, and the FBI.

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