How Billy and his Buddies Will Help You Teach Your Students an Important Personal Safety Habit
Welcome to the Billy Brings his Buddies Educators' section. Here you will find a variety of tools, information, resources and activities designed to help educators teach children about the Buddy
System - a valuable personal safety strategy that teaches children the importance of staying with a buddy when going places. By adopting this safety habit, children can reduce their vulnerability to victimization.
Learning the habit of staying with a buddy when going places can be taught and practiced at school in routine activities. When a child is sent to do an errand, allow a friend to go along. This will foster the development
of an important safety habit.
What is included in the Billy Brings his Buddies program?
The Billy Brings his Buddies program includes lesson plans for Grade 1 teachers that can be downloaded for free, online games that students can play, an online storybook that students can read through and a Billy puppet. There are also take-home activities that students can complete with their parents/guardians.
Where can I find additional information?
Billy Brings His Buddies is part of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection's Kids in the Know program. Kids in the Know is an interactive education program used from Kindergarten to
High School to increase personal safety and reduce the risk of victimization and sexual exploitation of children. The lessons provide opportunities for children/youth to practice responding safely to harmful or
life-threatening situations. The program is based on best teaching practices and recent research on brain - compatible learning. For additional information, we encourage educators to visit the Kids in the Know website at
www.kidsintheknow.ca.
