School is the safest place for young people. Check-out these age-appropriate scripts to talk to your child and calm fears. Includes tips for discussing school fire and disaster practice drills School is the safest place for young people. Check out these age-appropriate resources and scripts to talk to your child to calm their fears and simple and comforting ways to discuss important topics like school safety drills, dealing with strangers, and gun safety.
Calming Kids Jitters About Scary News
An Age by Age Guide to Anxiety
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TIP: It's not always a stranger...
1) Always get family permission before accepting a gift from friends or family.
2) Always get family permission before entering someone's house or car, even if you know them.
Superb Stranger Danger discussions, scenarios to practice and simple, non-scary ways to discuss staying safe.
How to talk to your kids about lockdown drills
Kids are back in school, which means they might be asked to practice lockdown drills—and that can be scary! I have a script to help you talk about it with your kids.
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What to say to kids about school shootings
School shootings are in the news, and sadly in our world. Follow this age-by-age script to talk about this difficult subject with your kids.
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Important gun safety tips for families
In 2020, guns became the leading cause of child deaths in the US. Here are some safety tips that can help protect your kids from guns.
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It's up to us...
Safe Storage Saves Lives! You Can Help Prevent Gun Violence
San Diego Unified is joining San Diegans for Gun Violence Prevention in reminding parents and guardians of their responsibility to prevent young people from gaining access to unsecured firearms.
Safe storage – meaning that guns are locked, unloaded, and kept separate from ammunition – is the law and helps keep our children and schools safe.
The City of San Diego’s Safe Storage of Firearms Ordinance, which went into effect in September of 2019, requires city residents to safely lock or store firearms that are inside their residences when the firearm is not within the immediate control of its owner or of another authorized user. Trigger locks, gun safes, or lock boxes are all viable safety options.
Keeping firearms securely stored helps prevent small children from accidentally accessing the firearm and unintentionally shooting themselves or others; it also reduces the possibility that older children can use an unsecured firearm to commit school violence or suicide, scenarios that unfortunately happen every day in this country.
If you wish to learn more about firearm safety, safe gun storage, and other steps parents, students, and school staff can take to help reduce gun violence in our community, please visit our SDUSD Gun Violence Prevention page online. we are sharing some resources you may find useful. If your student(s) needs additional support, please know we have trained staff available to help. Caring spaces are available at schools for these conversations to occur.
[excerpted from email sent from SDUSD 09/05/2024]
Dear San Diego Unified Families:
We understand that when school shootings occur, there may be heightened emotions and concerns about safety issues on our school campuses.
To help families and staff discuss this tragedy with children of all ages, we are sharing some resources you may find useful. If your student(s) needs additional support, please know we have trained staff available to help. Caring spaces are available at schools for these conversations to occur.
To help families and staff discuss this tragedy with children of all ages,
Every San Diego Unified school has a safety plan and procedures that contribute to maintaining a safe learning environment for all of our students and staff members. Additionally, the Board of Education adopted a resolution in June about gun violence prevention, to inform families with the facts about gun safety and safe gun storage.
The safety and wellbeing of our students and staff remain paramount, and we must all do what we can to keep our school communities safe from gun violence.
Thank you for your partnership in support of our children.
Sincerely,
Fabi Bagula, Ph.D.
Acting Superintendent
San Diego Unified School District