Thursday, March 18th,
2010
40% of DuPage
counties 328 registered child sex offenders live within minutes of our
children…statistics have shown there is a high rate of re-offense.
How Do We Protect Our Children?
Spring Into Safety is an annual program that is offered
for FREE and includes hands-on education and awareness designed to keep our
children safer from abduction and exploitation. 2010 marks our 7th
year offering this program to Lisle and surrounding
communities.
All children and teens are
encouraged to attend. Programs should be attended with an adult/parent to
continue home instruction.
Click here to download
printable flier
Program Schedule
5:00pm Resource Tables Open – Digital Imaging, fingerprinting, DNA kits, Radkidz, and more.
6:00pm
7:00pm Craig Akers - Craig shares his personal
story. Craig is the parent of nationally known abduction victim, Shawn
Hornbeck. More…
7:30pm So You Think You know? A program
designed to educate teens and their parents on personal safety, social
networking, date/acquaintance assault, & sexting.
The statistics are startling.
Each day, children throughout our
country are at risk.
Did you know? In one year…
797,500 children are reported missing?
That breaks down to 2100 per day…
168,290 are runaways (also at risk)
203,000 are abducted by family members
198,300 were involuntarily missing, lost or injured
58,200 were abducted by non-family members
That is approximately 5 children in
the time it took you to read those statistics alone.
Knowledge is power.
Understand the risk so that you can
limit it.
Thursday, March 18th,
2010
Spring Into Safety is an annual program that is offered for FREE
FREE and open to
public
Sponsors and
Supporters
Spring Into Safety Community Organization
DuPage County Sheriff Department
The Shawn Hornbeck Foundation
Lisle Visitor and Convention Bureau
Arbor Printing and Graphics, Pam and Mike Shuta
Dignity Memorial and Blake Lamb Funeral Home
Lisle CHARACTER Counts!
Lisle Elementary Home and School Organization
Lisle Hilton and Richard Brink
“I thought
it was excellent-please repeat.”
“…very
informative, well presented, something children definitely need to help protect
themselves!”
“Good
combination of safety issues.”
“…the
information setting was helpful as serious as the subject matter is. The
program will allow us to talk more and more with our children about these
issues.”
“…a
valuable hour, well spent.”
