Safe and strong team

The social organization Safe-Strong-Team has been committed to protecting children from sexual abuse and violent crimes across Germany since 1994. The focus is on prevention work in elementary schools and day-care centers, in which the Safe-Stark team, as a cooperation partner in the field of violence prevention, conducts courses on various topics.
Among other things, more than 200 volunteers work for the Safe-Stark team, who work in various areas.

The organization's head office and federal office is in Euskirchen , from where assignments in elementary schools, kindergartens and other social institutions in which children take part are organized.

aims

Children are the focus of the Safe-Strong-Team. The Safe and Strong team tries to convey a new feeling of security to specialists, parents and children.

Through role-playing in multidisciplinary teams, children should be made "safe and strong" according to the organization name. Children should be able to grow up without worries. Therefore, the Safe-Strong-Team makes a contribution to child protection . In the courses, children should experience strengths that they did not know about before.

The Safe-Stark team not only offers prevention courses for children, but also trains daycare workers, teachers at elementary schools as well as parents and social workers in order to strengthen the children's sphere of life and all social instances and reference persons for prevention work and background knowledge about abuse and Raise awareness of violent crime. They should act quickly and correctly in dangerous situations and ideally protect the child preventively.

Contents of the Safe-Strong courses

The concept of the initiative is based on a mixture of practical exercises and theoretical knowledge transfer:

A) Hazard detection

B) Avoidance of Hazards

C) Child - friendly self-defense

What are the different types of offenders?
Simple but effective self-defense techniques or loosening techniques
How do I defend myself properly?
Fall school

D) Realistic and conflict-oriented role play

I am home alone and the doorbell / phone rings - I am spoken to on the way to school
Somebody speaks to me in the playground
A driver speaks to me
How do I behave towards an exhibitionist?
How do I behave on the internet?
How do I use the mobile devices correctly?
How do I protect myself from hacker attacks?
Promote media security and media literacy

E) Reality check

The children run through a hazard course that corresponds to their respective age and level of knowledge. In doing so, they encounter trained dummies who want to address and persuade them. The children can defend themselves with all the techniques and methods they have learned. The children's behavior is recorded on video. Not only "the foreign offender" is taken into account in the training, but also the immediate environment in which, according to statistics, most attacks occur and abuse also takes place.

F) behavior analysis

The behavior of the children on the danger course is analyzed and reflected on using the video recording. This creates an extended learning effect for the children: They see through the "objective eye of the camera" how they actually behaved and can compare their own behavior with that of the other children.

On the basis of this tried and tested child prevention concept, the on-site trainers adapt to the requirements and needs of the children and work in a practical and solution-oriented manner. First and second graders receive mixed-sex training, while separate-sex courses for girls and boys are offered for third and fourth grades. This child prevention concept is unique in Germany and makes the social organization in the field of violence prevention one of the leading providers in Germany.

successes

In a quarter of a century, more than 15,000 primary schools in Germany were provided with information on violence prevention. It was also possible to train more than 500,000 children, parents and professionals with the prevention concept.

Name meaning and supporters

The Safe-Strong-Team works exclusively with pedagogically and police trained trainers who show the right sensitivity in dealing with children in order to be able to realistically represent dangerous situations in role-plays. However, particular emphasis is placed on not traumatizing the children.

In addition to the nationwide trainers, the Safe-Stark team also works with educators, child therapists and psychologists such as the university lecturer Helmut Zöpfl or the former police officer and Bundestag trainer Ralf Schmitz, who give lectures on social organization and children outside of the courses at primary schools and at events support and accompany. Furthermore, Ursula von der Leyen is the patron of the Safe-Strong-Organization. In addition, public figures support the Secure-Stark team with their names, including

Tanja Bülter : "As a mother of two, I am happy to support the initiative. Only a self-confident child can clearly say NO. It is extremely important to give little people a safe start in life. The Safe-Stark Foundation is a great component for this. "
Sabine Stamm : Making children strong, being role models and protecting ... The Safe-Strong-Team is an important component in mastering this social task and challenge. I am very happy to be able to support the Safe-Stark team on a voluntary basis as an ambassador. "
Cora Lee : "Abuse is not something that takes place remotely or only in a boarding school. It happens on an incredible scale in the middle of society, in families. I wish the children that they are made strong against it, and the adults, that they are mindful. "
Robert Biegert
Karen Heinrichs : "Children are our future. We have to do everything humanly possible so that they can grow up safely."
Tim Schlüter : "A strong self-confidence with the ability to say no from time to time are a very important basis - whether in social media or in real life."
Christina Surer : "I have just become a mother and I want to protect my child from possible dangers. That is why I think it is important to raise my daughter in such a way that she has enough self-confidence in critical situations to react correctly and thus protect herself."
Tuncay Gary : "It is not only important to me in my literature and theater workshop for children and adolescents to meet children at eye level, it is also important to me to draw attention to and sensitize them to the many dangers in society."

financing

The social organization Safe-Strong-Team is a non-profit organization (NPO) and is supported by companies and sponsors. As a rule, the training measures are borne by mixed financing.
Sponsors and supporters include: