Connected Kids:
Safe, Strong,
Secure
™
Dear Pediatrician,
I am pleased to announce the launch of a new AAP program, Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure™. Surveys of pediatricians in 1998 and 2003 revealed that a majority of pediatricians want to counsel patients and their families about violence prevention and want the training and support that will enable them to do so. Connected Kids offers child health care providers a comprehensive, logical approach to integrating violence prevention efforts in their practices.
Connected Kids brings an asset-based approach to anticipatory guidance, focusing on helping
parents and families raise resilient children. Each counseling topic discusses the child’s development, the parent’s feelings and reactions in response to the child’s development and behavior, and specific practical suggestions on how to encourage healthy social, emotional, and physical growth in an environment of support and open communication.
This program evolved from efforts to prevent intentional injuries—youth violence and child abuse. Extensive research, including focus groups with parents around the country, suggested that the most effective approach to these critical areas would be a positive one, an approach that supports the alliance between parents and pediatricians by providing specific, important advice about children and families throughout childhood. The program builds on TIPP®—The Injury Prevention Program
in that information for parents and pediatricians is coordinated with scheduled health maintenance visits. Connected Kids supports these developmentally timed topics with counseling suggestions and with written handouts for parents and teens.
Why is violence prevention important to the American Academy of Pediatrics? As increasing numbers of pediatricians report treating children for injuries related to child abuse, domestic violence, and community violence, it is clear that this issue requires the attention of all those who care for children. Just as we work to protect children from disease, disability, and unintentional injury, so must we help provide them with the tools to be safe from violence.
Development of Connected Kids began with the 1999 report of the Task Force on Violence and ultimately involved extensive input from parents, teens, and more than 100 recognized experts in child health, mental health, and development as well as practicing general pediatricians. The three-year development process, which was supported by a grant from the US Department of Justice, has produced a program that is rooted in science, is responsive to the real-life challenges of parenting, incorporates many issues that pediatricians already include in their practices, and has been field-tested extensively.
Read on for information about what’s included in Connected Kids, how to obtain a copy of TIPP and
Connected Kids on CD-ROM, and how to get started using Connected Kids in practice. I invite you to
use the new Connected Kids resources in your practice and your community, joining the Academy and pediatricians nationwide in addressing this vitally important public health issue.
Sincerely,
Errol R. Alden, MD, FAAP Executive Director
How Do I Get
Started Using
Connected Kids
?
3. Be a leader.
Successful use of
Connected Kids
will require the
support of all practice staff. You can pave the way
by serving as your practice’s
Connected Kids
“champion.” You might want to hold a staff meeting
to discuss how your practice can use
Connected
Kids.
You can use the
Connected Kids
PowerPoint
presentation (available on the
Connected Kids
Web
site at www.aap.org/connectedkids) to introduce
your practice to the program. Share your vision for
how the practice can implement
Connected Kids
while being open to ideas from everyone else, from
the receptionist to your partners.
4. Share your experience and
get ideas from others.
Visit the
Connected Kids
Web site for success
stories and suggestions from pediatricians around
the country. Use the Web site to pose questions
about
Connected Kids
and get information about
how others have overcome barriers to implementing
the program. Talk to local colleagues who have
implemented
Connected Kids
about their experiences.
5. Be patient.
Your practice won’t be able to implement all of
Connected Kids
overnight. But
Connected Kids
field testers overwhelmingly felt that the program
was easy to adapt to their own practice styles.
Even experienced pediatricians found that once
they started becoming more comfortable using
Connected Kids
it improved their counseling, their
ability to address violence prevention, and their
relationships with parents.
C
onnected Kids
is a comprehensive program for use in well-child visits for all children from birth to age 21.
Its organization follows the familiar TIPP model: there are suggestions for topics to introduce and reinforce at
scheduled visits, supported by printed materials to give to parents and teens to reinforce your advice. Fortunately,
Connected Kids
is a user-friendly and flexible program for providers and families, and it was designed so that
you can implement it at your own pace in a way that is comfortable for you.
Here are some suggestions for getting started with
Connected Kids,
based on how
field testers used this program. One or more of these ideas may help you begin:
If you are interested in receiving periodic updates about Connected Kids, please
send an e-mail to [email protected]
with “updates” in the subject line.
1. Understand
Connected Kids.
The clinical guide introduces the building blocks of
the program and provides suggestions for specific
office visits.
Connected Kids
does not require you
to practice in an entirely new way; instead, it provides
a different way to think about much of what you
already do in providing well-child care. You can use
Connected Kids
tools to frame your counseling in
an asset-based philosophy that pediatricians and
parents find to be appealing and successful.
2. Start small and build incrementally.
Try implementing
Connected Kids
with one or two
visits or topics at a time. You might want to pick
a visit during which you already cover topics
addressed in
Connected Kids
but for which you
feel you are lacking appropriate tools. For example,
maybe you already counsel parents never to shake
their babies, but you could implement
Connected
Kids
at the very first visit to help them anticipate
that their babies will cry and help them find needed
support at the beginning. Or, you could pick a topic
that you have wanted to address but didn’t because
you did not have the needed
information. For example,
bullying is a “hot” topic,
and
Connected Kids
could help you counsel
families of bullies and
children who are being
bullied.
Infancy and Early Childhood: Prenatal to 5-Year-Old Visits
Visit
Introduce
Reinforce
Brochures
2 Days to
•
What Babies Do
1.
Welcome to the
4 Weeks
•
Parental Frustration
World of Parenting!
•
Parent Mental Health
•
Parent Support
2 and 4
•
Child Care
•
Parent Mental Health
2.
Parenting Your Infant
Months
•
Family
•
Parent Support
•
Safe Environment
•
Parenting Style
•
Bonding and Attachment
6 and 9
•
Establishing Routines
•
Parent Support
3.
How Do Infants Learn?
Months
•
Discipline = Teaching
•
Child Care
4.
Your Child Is On the
•
Firearms
•
Safe Environment
Move: Reduce the Risk
•
Modeling Behavior
•
Bonding and Attachment
of Gun Injury
12 and 15
•
Child Development
•
Parenting Style
5.
Teaching Good
Months
and Behavior
•
Firearms
Behavior: Tips on
•
Modeling Behavior
How to Discipline
•
Safe Environment
18 Months
•
Child’s Assets
•
Parent Support
6.
Playing Is How
and 2 Years
•
Guided Participation
•
Firearms
Toddlers Learn
•
Media
•
Child Development
7.
Pulling the Plug on
and Behavior
TV Violence
•
Establishing Routines
3 and 4
•
Peer Playing
•
Modeling Behavior
8.
Young Children Learn
Years
•
Safety in Others’ Homes
•
Guided Participation
a Lot When They Play
•
Talking About Emotions
•
Promoting Independence
T
he
Connected Kids
Clinical Guide
offers pediatricians
comprehensive advice on how to implement the program in clinical
practice. It provides counseling suggestions for each age and well-child
visit, including information about important topics in each brochure,
suggested scripts for assessment and anticipatory guidance, and
practical hints about how to discuss sensitive topics. The Clinical Guide
also includes several tools and worksheets that reinforce important
messages and help connect families to valuable community resources.
The
Connected Kids
Clinical Guide can be found on the AAP
TIPP
and Connected Kids on CD-ROM.
Middle Childhood: 5- to 10-Year-Old Visits
Visit
Introduce
Reinforce
Brochures
5 Years
•
Establishing Routines
•
Child Development
9.
Growing Independence:
and Setting Limits
and Behavior
Tips for Parents of
•
Child’s Assets
Young Children
•
Safety in Others’ Homes
•
Promoting Independence
6 Years
•
Teaching Behavior
•
Modeling Behavior
10.
Bullying: It’s Not OK
•
Bullying
•
Establishing Routines
•
Out-of-School Time
and Setting Limits
8 Years
•
School Connections
•
Firearms
11.
Drug Abuse
•
Alcohol and Drugs
•
Promoting Independence
Prevention Starts
•
Interpersonal Skills
•
Establishing Routines
With Parents
and Setting Limits
12.
Friends Are Important:
Tips for Parents
10 Years
•
Child Mental Health
•
Media
13.
Everybody Gets Mad:
•
School Performance
•
Out-of-School Time
Helping Your Child
Cope with Conflict
Adolescence
Visit
Introduce
Reinforce
Brochures
Early:
•
Family Time Together
•
Firearms
14.
Talking With Your Teen:
11 to 14
•
Peer Relationships
•
Establishing Routines and
Tips for Parents
Years
•
Support System
Setting Limits
15.
Staying Cool When
•
Staying Safe
•
Alcohol and Drugs
Things Heat Up
•
Teen Mental Health
•
School Performance
16.
Expect Respect:
•
Conflict Resolution Skills
Healthy Relationships
•
Healthy Dating
17.
Teen Dating Violence:
•
Gaining Independence
Tips for Parents
Middle:
•
Plans for the Future
•
Alcohol and Drugs
18.
Teen Suicide and Guns
15 to 17
•
Firearms and Suicide
•
Peer Relationships
19.
Next Stop Adulthood:
Years
•
Depression
•
Healthy Dating
Tips for Parents
•
Resiliency
•
Gaining Independence
Late:
•
Transition to
•
Peer Relationships
20.
Help Stop Teenage
18 to 21
Independence
•
Plans for the Future
Suicide
Years
•
Negotiating a
•
Depression
21.
Connecting With
Connected Kids Brochures
Infancy and Early Childhood: Prenatal to 5-Year-Old Visits
1. “Welcome to the World of Parenting!”Provides new parents with information about normal newborn behaviors and development. It offers parents ways to cope with crying, fatigue, relationship changes, and other challenges of new parenthood.
2. “Parenting Your Infant”
Continues themes of the first brochure, focusing on babies’ behaviors and personality development. It discusses common concerns such as colic, trouble sleeping, and clinging to parents, and gives advice on establishing new family routines.
3. “How Do Infants Learn?”
Offers practical suggestions to parents on how to help their babies learn about the world through play, reading, exploration, and positive relationships.
4. “Your Child is On the Move: Reduce the Risk of Gun Injury”
Discusses guns as a household safety issue, to be addressed with other household hazards. This brochure advises parents on how to protect their newly mobile babies from gun injury as they explore their surroundings.
5. “Teaching Good Behavior: Tips on How to Discipline”
Gives specific suggestions on how to encourage good behavior and correct bad behavior in developmentally appropriate ways. It helps parents establish rules and limits and provides tips on alternatives to corporal punishment.
6. “Playing Is How Toddlers Learn”
Helps parents understand normal toddler behavior and how to encourage learning through play. It offers ways to help toddlers learn to make friends and interact with others.
7. “Pulling the Plug on TV Violence”
Informs parents about the influence of television violence on children and gives them specific sugges-tions on how to limit television’s harmful effects.
8. “Young Children Learn a Lot When They Play”
Discusses playing with peers and how parents can support their preschool-aged child’s social development. This brochure gives tips on how to deal with common interpersonal problems, such as aggression and rejection.
Middle Childhood: 5- to 10-Year-Old Visits
9. “Growing Independence:
Tips for Parents of Young Children”
Offers guidance to parents in helping their children begin to become independent. It focuses on establishing limits and daily routines, talking and listening, encouraging independence in daily tasks, teaching safety around other adults, and learning to be a friend.
10. “Bullying: It’s Not OK”
Offers facts about bullying and strategies for parents to help stop bullying, whether their child is a victim, a perpetrator, or a bystander. This brochure is useful in clinical settings or as a handout for school and community groups.
11. “Drug Abuse Prevention Starts with Parents”
Highlights the connection between parent behavior and attitudes, media influences, parent/child communication, and children’s subsequent use of drugs and alcohol. Major themes include parental role modeling and open communication.
12. “Friends Are Important: Tips for Parents”
Focuses on the importance of peer relationships as children become teenagers. It offers parents guidance on getting to know their child’s friends, helping their child avoid risky situations, and getting their child involved in community service.
13. “Everybody Gets Mad:
Helping Your Child Cope with Conflict”
Describes children’s anger and guides parents in giving their children specific strategies to avoid fighting when they are angry. It emphasizes communication and teaching children how to respond to their anger in appropriate ways.
Adolescence
14. “Talking with Your Teen: Tips for Parents”
Helps parents understand the ways that their children’s feelings and behaviors will change as they enter puberty and the teen years. It emphasizes the importance of continued communication and establishing reasonable limits to keep teens safe.
15. “Staying Cool When Things Heat Up”
Acknowledges that it is normal for teens to get angry and helps them find ways to respond to their anger without fighting. Written for young adolescents, it offers methods of defusing conflict and helping other teens avoid fighting.
16. “Expect Respect: Healthy Relationships”
Guides teens in avoiding abusive relationships and intimate partner violence. Written for adolescents, it describes signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships in an interactive “quiz” format and empowers teens to take steps to change or end an unhealthy relationship.
17. “Teen Dating Violence: Tips for Parents”
Helps parents recognize signs that their teenager is involved in an abusive relationship. It offers parents advice on how to talk about potential problems and help their teenager deal with the relationship safely.
18. “Teen Suicide and Guns”
Highlights the risk of having a gun in the home in the context of teen suicide prevention. It provides the facts about suicide attempts involving guns being deadly more often than attempts by other methods.
19. “Next Stop Adulthood: Tips for Parents”
Helps parents and teenagers negotiate the complex relationship changes that occur as teenagers become more independent. It gives advice to parents on helping their teen learn to be a responsible adult while staying connected and having realistic expectations.
20. “Help Stop Teenage Suicide”
Provides information about warning signs for suicide and dispels common myths about teen suicide. It offers practical suggestions to parents, peers, and
others on how to respond if you are concerned that a teen may attempt suicide.
21. “Connecting With Your Community”
Encourages teenagers to be actively involved in their communities as a way of growing into an independent and successful adult. It provides information on what adolescents can expect as their relationships with their parents and other adults change.
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TIPP®—The Injury Prevention Programis a comprehensive and easy-to-use program to help parents prevent common childhood injuries from birth through age 12 years. Since the program was first introduced more than 20 years ago, more than 21 million TIPP®handouts have been distributed on topics such as bicycle safety, car safety
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NEW! Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure™is a new set of resources developed by the Violence Intervention and Prevention Program (VIPP).Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure provides pediatricians with guidance and patient-oriented materials to take an asset-based approach to violence prevention. The CD-ROM includes 21 Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure handouts on topics such as bullying, discipline, interpersonal skills, parenting, suicide, television violence, and much more.
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