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K.O. Child Assault/Abduction
Response Efforts
(K.O. CAREs)
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| At K.O. we are committed to teaching children about safety and
self defense. In response to the recent assault on a child in our
community, K.O. developed a special education program for young
children. In our community many young children walk to school alone,
spend time alone after school (before the return of working
parents), or depend upon young siblings as baby sitters. The child
safety program was developed to teach important safety awareness
principles to children. |
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| Children need no martial arts training to understand basic
principles (such as not to let a stranger in the house, and not to
tell a stranger on the phone that they are home alone). This program
is offered to schools, religious groups, and community centers
involved in educating young children. For more information, please Contact Master
John Ozuna.
Please visit the K.O. Photo Album for more pictures of a recent Child Safety
Seminar
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By Shaun Sittinger
In order to help children learn how to be aware
and safe when confronted with potentially dangerous situations, K.O.
has been conducting free child safety seminars.
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Being Safe: A kindergartener at
Schallenberger Elementary School, demonstrates the incorrect way
to answer the door when a stranger, played by karate student John
Mullen, right, tries to get inside the child's home. John Ozuna,
left, showed students what to do if a stranger ever approaches
them.
Photograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer (“The
Willow Gen Resident”) |
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In these seminars, children, which include both
K.O. students as well as other kids, are taught the necessary skills
and tools which can be used to prevent them from being kidnapped or
attacked. The seminars, which are taught by Master Ozuna, K.O.
instructors, and students, teach the children some self-defense
skills as well as other useful tools and lessons. Certain lesson,
such as how to deal with strangers and dangerous people, are very
valuable in teaching kids and parents how to prevent and avoid
dangerous situations.
Some lessons taught to and practiced by the
children include learning how to deal with a stranger who is at the
front door or lurking around on the street, and even though most
children realize that most people are not dangerous, they are taught
to always walk with others if possible and not to trust strangers.
Children are shown and taught to be cautious
and aware, and that if a stranger approaches in a suspicious or
menacing manner, they should be loud in order to attract attention
from bystanders. Next, they address the creep as a stranger so that
onlookers realize that there is a problem and that the child is
confronted with a person who is not a family member or a friend.
This should also shock the stranger, who will probably run way from
the area.
Martial arts related skills are also taught to
the kids just in case they can’t avoid or prevent a dangerous
person or situation from threatening them. The children are taught
marital arts self-defense techniques to counter common attacks; for
example if an attacker grabs the child by the arm. The kids learn to
strike with punches, kicks, and claws to sensitive areas of an
attackers body such as their eyes, throat, groin, or stomach. These
techniques are especially valuable to little kids who need every
possible advantage against a large adult attacker.
As our main goal, we hope these skills will
save and protect children in case they are ever in a dangerous
situation.
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These seminars, which have been featured in “The
Willow Gen Resident” , “The Chicago
Tribune”, and on Channels 11 News and Channel 36 Q&A.,
are held at K.O. on certain Saturdays. Anyone interested in
additional information should contact
Master John Ozuna.
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