Welcome!


Safe Sitter’s Safe@Home is designed to be a 90-minute program for students in grades 4-6, facilitated by a Safe Sitter®


Instructor, teacher, parent, or adult volunteer. This program provides students with important safety training that will help students be prepared to stay home alone.


Completing this program does not mean that a student is ready to stay home alone. Only the student’s parents can make that decision, based on the age, maturity, skills, experience, and confidence level of their child. However, this program will help students learn about how to practice safe habits, how to handle common household emergencies, and how to address illness or injury.


Before babysitting or watching younger siblings, students can go to safesitter.org and find a Safe Sitter® class near them. Safe Sitter®


classes prepare students to be safe while home alone, watching younger


siblings, or babysitting other children, and includes information and skills practice related to safety skills, first aid & rescue skills, child care skills, and life & business skills.


USING THIS GUIDE


Your Facilitator’s Guide will lead you step-by-step through presenting this program. Each student must have a Safe@Home Student Booklet and a pencil or pen. The program begins with a guided discussion. The facilitator should follow the script provided.


• Facilitator lines are in bold. • (Suggested student answers are in parentheses.) • [Facilitator instructions appear in brackets.]


Also included in this program is a digital presentation. A PowerPoint and PDF presentation are available and should be shown on-screen in full-screen mode. The numbers on the left side of your script tell you what page of the presentation you should show the class for each section.


Thank you for teaching Safe@Home to your group. If you have questions at any time, contact Safe Sitter, Inc. National Headquarters at 317.596.5001 or safesitter@safesitter.org.


ABOUT SAFE SITTER®


Safe Sitter, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing life skills, safety skills, and child care training to all youth in order to build safer communities. Safe Sitter®


programs teach young teens the skills they need for when they are home alone, watching younger siblings, or babysitting.


Safe Sitter, Inc. was founded in 1980 by Patricia A. Keener, M.D. For more information, please visit our website at safesitter.org.


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