Safety sessions offer tips for crisis.
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Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard
The Escape School may be a scary concept, but it offers a not-so-scary message: Kids can do plenty to protect themselves.
And the same goes no matter how old you are.
The point was driven home this week as safety experts held training sessions in Eugene for students and senior citizens.
Youngsters got useful tips about avoiding abduction Abduction
Balfour, David
expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped]
Bertram, Henry
kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. at the Escape School on Wednesday night and seniors will get suggestions at the Smart Safe Seniors program today.
The Escape School, a nationally recognized program that promotes confidence and assertiveness assertiveness /as·ser·tive·ness/ (ah-ser´tiv-nes) the quality or state of bold or confident self-expression, neither aggressive nor submissive. in children ages 5 to 15, held an hourlong hour·long or hour-long
adj.
Lasting an hour: an hourlong television episode.
Adj. 1. session for parents and kids that gave them a variety of techniques to avoid being targeted and ways to get away if they are victimized.
"Kids don't go away scared. They feel empowered," said organizer Margaret Mazzotta, a crime prevention specialist with the Eugene Police Department.
Among the things they learned:
Don't go willingly: Families should have a secret code word, so children approached by strange adults will know whether that person really is acting on behalf of their parents.
Bike blockade blockade, use of naval forces to cut off maritime communication and supply. Blockades may be used to prevent shipping from reaching enemy ports, or they may serve purposes of coercion. The term is rarely applied to land sieges. : Keep your bike between yourself and a stranger. It makes it harder for them to reach out and grab you.
Windmill windmill, apparatus that harnesses wind power for a variety of uses, e.g., pumping water, grinding corn, driving small sawmills, and driving electrical generators. Windmills were probably not known in Europe before the 12th cent. arms: If you are grabbed by the wrist, swing your arm in a circle backward. It loosens the other person's grip.
Be loud: Make a scene if someone tries to drag you from a store or mall. Yell: "That's not my mom! That's not my dad!" Make a ruckus and draw as much attention to yourself as possible.
Be Velcro: Don't be afraid to attach yourself to a stranger in a public place if someone else is bothering you. Yell "Help me! Help me!" Most strangers aren't dangerous and will help if you need it.
Don't help: Adults shouldn't ask kids they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)
"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. for directions or help finding a lost puppy, a common technique of pedophiles. Tell them to ask another adult for help.
Make trouble: If you get dragged into a car, stick a coin in the ignition ignition, apparatus for igniting a combustible mixture. The German engineer Nikolaus A. Otto, in his first gas engine, used flame ignition; another method was heating a metal tube to incandescence. so the key won't fit or grab the keys and throw them out of the car.
Don't be passive: If you get caught and are confined con·fine
v. con·fined, con·fin·ing, con·fines
v.tr.
1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit. somewhere, do things to get noticed. Turn the light on and off repeatedly or stop up the toilet so that it overflows.
Senior citizens at today's session will learn how to avoid common frauds and scams, how to protect their homes and how best to store cash, credit cards and personal identification, said Eugene police community safety officer Debbie Janecek.
"The information will help them feel confident about their safety instead of reacting out of fear," she said.
TODAY
Security pointers for seniors will be offered from 11 a.m. to noon at the Campbell Senior Center, 155 High St., Eugene. The program is free and refreshments re·fresh·ment
n.
1. The act of refreshing or the state of being refreshed.
2. Something, such as food or drink, that refreshes.
3. refreshments A snack or light meal and drinks. will be served.
The Escape School may be a scary concept, but it offers a not-so-scary message: Kids can do plenty to protect themselves.
And the same goes no matter how old you are.
The point was driven home this week as safety experts held training sessions in Eugene for students and senior citizens.
Youngsters got useful tips about avoiding abduction Abduction
Balfour, David
expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped]
Bertram, Henry
kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. at the Escape School on Wednesday night and seniors will get suggestions at the Smart Safe Seniors program today.
The Escape School, a nationally recognized program that promotes confidence and assertiveness assertiveness /as·ser·tive·ness/ (ah-ser´tiv-nes) the quality or state of bold or confident self-expression, neither aggressive nor submissive. in children ages 5 to 15, held an hourlong hour·long or hour-long
adj.
Lasting an hour: an hourlong television episode.
Adj. 1. session for parents and kids that gave them a variety of techniques to avoid being targeted and ways to get away if they are victimized.
"Kids don't go away scared. They feel empowered," said organizer Margaret Mazzotta, a crime prevention specialist with the Eugene Police Department.
Among the things they learned:
Don't go willingly: Families should have a secret code word, so children approached by strange adults will know whether that person really is acting on behalf of their parents.
Bike blockade blockade, use of naval forces to cut off maritime communication and supply. Blockades may be used to prevent shipping from reaching enemy ports, or they may serve purposes of coercion. The term is rarely applied to land sieges. : Keep your bike between yourself and a stranger. It makes it harder for them to reach out and grab you.
Windmill windmill, apparatus that harnesses wind power for a variety of uses, e.g., pumping water, grinding corn, driving small sawmills, and driving electrical generators. Windmills were probably not known in Europe before the 12th cent. arms: If you are grabbed by the wrist, swing your arm in a circle backward. It loosens the other person's grip.
Be loud: Make a scene if someone tries to drag you from a store or mall. Yell: "That's not my mom! That's not my dad!" Make a ruckus and draw as much attention to yourself as possible.
Be Velcro: Don't be afraid to attach yourself to a stranger in a public place if someone else is bothering you. Yell "Help me! Help me!" Most strangers aren't dangerous and will help if you need it.
Don't help: Adults shouldn't ask kids they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)
"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. for directions or help finding a lost puppy, a common technique of pedophiles. Tell them to ask another adult for help.
Make trouble: If you get dragged into a car, stick a coin in the ignition ignition, apparatus for igniting a combustible mixture. The German engineer Nikolaus A. Otto, in his first gas engine, used flame ignition; another method was heating a metal tube to incandescence. so the key won't fit or grab the keys and throw them out of the car.
Don't be passive: If you get caught and are confined con·fine
v. con·fined, con·fin·ing, con·fines
v.tr.
1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit. somewhere, do things to get noticed. Turn the light on and off repeatedly or stop up the toilet so that it overflows.
Senior citizens at today's session will learn how to avoid common frauds and scams, how to protect their homes and how best to store cash, credit cards and personal identification, said Eugene police community safety officer Debbie Janecek.
"The information will help them feel confident about their safety instead of reacting out of fear," she said.
TODAY
Security pointers for seniors will be offered from 11 a.m. to noon at the Campbell Senior Center, 155 High St., Eugene. The program is free and refreshments re·fresh·ment
n.
1. The act of refreshing or the state of being refreshed.
2. Something, such as food or drink, that refreshes.
3. refreshments A snack or light meal and drinks. will be served.
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