CAPP's innovative Child Safety Workshop is a simple concept that has proven to be very successful. Through education, CAPP creates a community where children are given a chance to feel loved and valued so they can embrace their childhood and achieve their potential.
The workshop gives eight and nine year old children the opportunity to speak out about abuse and neglect they may be experiencing, and the tools to recognize, resists and report. Guidance counselors are provided with the means to properly process disclosures statements and interview skills to gather information for making a report. This powerful educational equation works to keep children safe.

The Performance
Two Prevention Specialists perform skits where life-size puppets tell their stories of physical and sexual abuse. The puppets engage children on a level that conveys the message more effectively than standard education presentations. Because the children watching the skits identify strongly with the puppets, they feel secure to talk about their own real-life situations or comfortable enough to ask questions that they previously felt too intimidated or shy to verbalize. For children who have been victims of abuse, this is critically important since they are often isolated by their fears or threats from the abuser.

The Results
From September 2006 through June 2007, CAPP conducted 226 workshops in 133 schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City, educating 24,519 children.