Our Homeland Security: Section offers two distinctly crafted workbooks to assist grass roots efforts to create communities safe from the threat of crime and terrorism. Neighborhood Watch is a step-by-step blueprint on how to create and maintain one of the most effective anti-crime and ant-terrorist grass roots programs ever developed. Fight Back: Safeguard Your Community outlines, categorizes and links many of the best ideas, programs and legislation that have been presented to the Foundation over the course of our history.
Our Legislative Efforts: Are comprised of a two-pronged approach toward child safety that addresses front and back end solutions. In order to protect America’s children from the predators who lurk in our shadows we promote efforts that encourage personal accountability throughout the criminal justice system; that strengthen sentences for violent and recidivist offenders; that provide better tools to monitor criminals released back into society and that promote uniform laws that strengthen criminal justice statutes between the states. However, if we do not invest in programs that help children become caring citizens instead of brutal criminals, we will all pay an unfathomable cost in broken lives and broken hearts. Proven prevention programs like Head Start, parenting education, mentoring, job training, good schools, and after-school programs can dramatically reduce crime by helping kids become productive citizens instead of brutal criminals.
Our Missing Children: Section is not what one would expect from an organization inspired by the tragedy of a kidnapped child. We decided at inception that our efforts were best directed toward providing pro-active solutions for keeping children off of missing posters as opposed to providing yet another passive Website that catalogs the haunting images of America’s missing children. However, because the demand for competent service is so critical, we have assisted literally hundreds of families despite the fact that we are not prepared to offer casework. In an effort to provide widespread assistance to all families of missing persons the KlaasKids Foundation was instrumental in establishing Beyond Missing a revolutionary new Internet destination that provides free poster making and distribution capabilities.
Missing...What To Do If Your Child Disappears: a 27-minute instructional video that educates parents on the steps to take if their children are kidnapped can also be ordered online. Utilizing the resources of the FBI, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the California Department of Justice and many other national experts, the important information presented on this video production is backed-up with written material.
Our Newsletter: The Klaas Action Review is a stand-alone resource for educating interested parties on a wide range of children’s issues, featuring guest articles by acknowledged experts, legislative updates and a focus on pro-active participation.
Our Print-A-Thon: Is America’s premiere fingerprint/photograph program, utilizing state of the art computerized equipment. We have served more than 250,000 children at no cost to families and without data basing personal or privacy information on any child.
Our Public Awareness Campaign: Takes advantage of our ongoing relationship with a number of highly visible media resources to promote our child safety agenda. Foundation representatives have appeared on virtually every network television newsmagazine, syndicated talk show and are regularly called upon as a resource for CNN, FOX, MSNBC and CNBC cable news channels advocating on behalf of missing children, abused children and victim’s rights. We have published numerous editorial opinions for newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Diego Union Tribune, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Portland Oregonian, and Los Angeles Daily News as well as articles in Newsweek Magazine and a profile in GQ Magazine.
Our Take Home Child ID Packets: includes a fingerprint ink strip, child safety tips, community action information, a nine-point plan on what to do if your children disappear and can be ordered online for free. One of our first official projects was to distribute 30,000 Take Home Child ID Packets to the children of the Sonoma County School District, where Polly attended school, in 1995.
Our Website: Is the Internet’s premiere Megan’s Law destination, offering a comparative analysis and overview of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Statutes for each state. We offer a similar service for the Amber Plan; a newsletter anthology; information on our Print-A-Thon; Critical Child Safety Information including how to collect your children’s DNA using household items; critical information on missing children; a legislative overview; and a timely section on Homeland Security.
