Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe is an evidence-based curriculum program with developmentally appropriate lessons for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to help students prevent, interrupt, and speak up about various types of child abuse—physical, emotional, sexual, neglect, bullying, and cyberabuse.
Prevention education is critical to ending child abuse. This ready-to-use program provides everything needed:
- comprehensive self-paced facilitator training
- classroom presentations to engage students
- two fully scripted lessons per grade
- handouts and reinforcement activities
- materials to send home to engage parents/caregivers
- optional student surveys to gauge learning
- optional data collection form for reporting and funding
- everything accessible 24/7 in our online LMS
Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe (CH SUBS) core curriculum
- is evidence-based – read more
- helps kids identify unsafe situations and teaches resistance skills, like telling a safe adult – read more
- is proven effective, with statistically valid testing since 2010 – read more
- is based on research and best practices in several disciplines – read more
- features the CH SUBS safety rules (adapted to safety principles for high school)
- “It’s MY body!”
- “Ask an adult if I am safe.”
- “I have choices.”
- “Tell someone.”
- “It’s NEVER my fault!”
The Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe program has been rated as having Promising Research Evidence by the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) and is listed in its Program Registry.
The Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe program meets the requirements of Jenna’s Law, is approved by Jenna Quinn, and is honored to be the featured curriculum on her website.
Why choose Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe?
Childhelp’s Speak Up Be Safe program is the only evidence-based comprehensive child abuse prevention education curriculum that covers various types of abuse, with age-appropriate lessons for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. It is used with confidence by schools, districts, advocacy centers, faith-based organizations, and other groups throughout the United States and over a dozen other nations.
Review the annual Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe impact reports that summarize the difference the curriculum has made in the lives of children, here in the US and across the globe.
Child abuse prevention education saves precious lives and valuable resources. The financial costs associated with victims of child abuse are substantial. The estimated economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States, based on 2015 substantiated incident cases (482,000 nonfatal and 1670 fatal victims), was $428 billion. This represents lifetime costs of nearly a million dollars per child abuse victim.1