Volunteer organizations. Harmless Safety Tips

Of course, it is impossible to provide everything to avoid a tragedy, but by following simple safety rules, you can reduce the risk to a minimum. We really want to ensure that these tragedies do not happen again, so we again draw your attention to the basic rules.

1. Don’t let your child go alone

Of course, until the age of 18, you will not be able to accompany him on a walk, take him to school, and then to college. But you should only let one child go when both he and you are ready for it. The psychologist of the “Lisa Alert” detachment recommends releasing children from the age of 10 (completion of primary school), if the child lives in a large city with developed infrastructure, and considers it acceptable to reduce this age to 8-9 years, if we are talking about a village, dacha, where everyone knows each other and have excellent knowledge of the terrain.

It is important to understand that a child who goes to school alone or walks alone on the playground must:

• be able to navigate in time;
• know the address and phone number of the parents, be able and not be afraid to call for help;
• be able to say “no” to a stranger;
• be able to navigate the terrain, know your route well;
• understand which places are sources of danger and consciously avoid them;
• know and strictly follow safety rules.

Remember that every child is individual. It is possible that your child, even at 11 years old, will ask you to go to the playground with him. And this is normal - the child is not mentally ready for independence.

Help him, prepare him step by step: first try leaving him on the playground for a while with other children and their parents, observing from the outside how he behaves; then you can let him go down to the entrance on his own and wait for you there while you close the doors; Next - an independent trip to the store (of course, you follow him, making sure that the child follows the rules and knows the way).

2. Teach your child how to behave around strangers

And this is not just the banal “Don’t walk or talk to a stranger.” Be sure to explain to your child that strangers are all those who are not part of the circle of trust. Next door neighbors, dad's work colleagues, distant relatives - everyone the child doesn't know or doesn't know well, those you can't trust with his life, are outside the circle and are strangers.

A child should not be afraid to say “no” to a proposal from a stranger. He must also understand that if his neighbor, with whom dad goes fishing, invites him to go fishing, he can call you and ask what to do. Your child should realize that his safety is not a small matter to you, and you will not get angry about this call or brush it off.

Often tragedies happen because the authority of adults for children is unshakable and they simply cannot call for help.

Yes, most children don't know how to scream. They fall into a stupor and meekly do everything that an aggressive adult tells them. But as soon as a child screams, everything can be completely different...

Explain to your child that when it comes to his safety, shouting is possible and even necessary - no one will scold him, but on the contrary, adults will understand that he is in trouble and will come to the rescue. Train with him, teach him to shout loudly: “I don’t know you!”

3. Build your child’s routes so that there are no dangerous objects along the way.

Taking a shortcut through a deserted park is, of course, much faster, but is it safer? Of course not! Remember, no amount of time saved can guarantee the safety of a child. Build your child’s routes so that there are no potentially dangerous places on the way - garages, construction sites, manholes, unregulated pedestrian crossings, unlit streets and/or streets with low traffic and much more.

Walk this route with your child as many times as necessary for him to clearly remember that this is the only way to go. Record the time it takes your child to complete this route. This way you will understand when something is out of the ordinary and can take action in time.

Remember - if you yourself change the route to one that is shorter when you are in a hurry, then your child will definitely do the same.

4. Teach your child to tell you when he leaves school or comes home or to a friend’s house.

It is very important to understand where your child is at any given moment, so teach him to tell you about his movements. This way you can have peace of mind, not only knowing that your child has already come home from school or got to visit a friend without any problems, but you will also understand that something went wrong if the child called back that he was going home, but in the supposed time I didn't return home. You can also install a program on your child’s phone that tracks the phone’s location (all Big Three operators have it), or buy your child a GPS watch.

Explain to your child that this is not total control, but a manifestation of care and concern for him. Show by example how important this is.

It is easier for a child to understand why he is asked to call when he leaves school if dad calls mom that he has left home from work.

5. Don’t be afraid to involve as many people as possible in your search.

If your child does not return home on time, this is a reason to start worrying. Call everyone with whom he might be staying, or who he might stop by along the way. Check all possible locations. If you were unable to find the child on your own, immediately report the incident to the police.

Do not hesitate to ask for help from your family and friends. These people are the most motivated search engines. Are you worried that people will think badly of you? But is anyone's opinion worth your child's life? Of course not!

Not only relatives, but also strangers are ready to help! Feel free to involve volunteers in the search. Report the incident to our squad's hotline 8-800-700-54-52, and we will definitely try to help!

The statistics of searches for missing persons are inexorable: the sooner you ask for help and the more people you involve in the search, the greater the chances of finding the person alive.

The safety of our children is in our hands. Take care of yourself and your loved ones!

Notes from a security school session opened by volunteers searching for missing people.

The Liza Alert search and rescue team in the Kirov region has been looking for missing people for three years. During this time, volunteers were looking for 1,134 people, of whom 853 disappeared within the city. A third of them are children. Volunteers conduct free classes for children and parents on the topic of safety in the city. While the children are completing the educational quest, the parents are listening to the lecture. We attended one of the first classes and found out what rules adults should teach children so that they feel comfortable in an urban environment and know how to act in an unexpected situation.

Street

1. Teach your child to go outside with a charged cell phone. Even take out the trash, even go to the bakery. Top up your phone and check the battery charge. If the child has a smartphone, give him another phone - a simple push-button one.

2. Explain the main rule: if you get lost, stay where you are, don’t try to “find yourself” on your own, don’t go anywhere. Just wait - they will find you anyway. Exception: if you are lost in a sparsely populated place, and very close to there is an area where there are a lot of people. Then go out to people, stand and wait.

3. Tell your child that there are three groups of people you can turn to for help. The first are the police. The second are people in any form (sellers, cashiers, security guards, event organizers). The third are women with children.

4. Come up with a code word with your child - unusual so that it cannot be guessed. They approach the children on the street and say that their mother asked them to pick them up from school. When a child asks to call his mother, he is shown the phone and told that she is the one on the other end of the line. Tell your child that in such a situation he must ask for the code word. And if a person cannot name him, then he cannot be trusted.

5. “I’ll call the adults and they’ll help you,” - this should be your child’s response to any requests for help from strangers. For example, a woman approaches a child and asks for help carrying groceries. You must answer: “I’ll call one of the adults now.”

6. Explain to the child that they may try to take him away by force. “Don’t touch me, I don’t know you,” teach your child to shout these words at the top of his voice. Rehearse this phrase - children are embarrassed to scream in a dangerous situation.

7. Learn your phone number with your child. Explain that he should call you in any suspicious situation: if he is lost in a shopping center, if he got off at the wrong stop, if a stranger has been following him for a long time.

8. Make sure that the child knows the names of all family members who live in the same apartment with him.

9. The path from home to school and back must be safe: no abandoned houses or plots. Plan a route together, choose a road where there are always people. Let this path not be short, but safe.

House

10. Explain who is “us” and who is “stranger.” List together who you can call “yours” - these could be close friends or relatives. All the rest are “strangers”.

11. Agree with your child: if he is walking down a dark entrance, a deserted street, or riding in an elevator alone, he calls you and tells you what he is doing and what he sees.

12. Write down with your child the police telephone number 02 and the telephone numbers of your neighbors.

13. Remind children that intruders often dress up as doctors or police officers. If people outside the door introduce themselves as one of them, “the plumber” or “the postman,” the child should first of all call you. And again, a code word will help - if the “guest” does not name him, then he is a stranger. Do not open the door under any circumstances, even if they knock very persistently.

Transport

14. Discuss the rules of behavior in transport: if the child has passed the required stop, he immediately calls you. If the phone does not work, you need to contact the conductor: according to the instructions, he is obliged to help the little passenger. If the child has already gotten off at an unfamiliar stop, you need to find a woman with a child and ask for help.

15. Explain that if the child does not have time to get on the bus after his parents and is left alone at the stop, let him stay there - you will definitely come back for him.

16. It happens that the child got on the bus, but the mother did not have time. Tell him that you need to get off at the next stop and wait for your mother.

Sometimes a simple conversation over tea is enough for the child to learn everything. It’s even better to remind children of these rules regularly, so that in an unexpected situation the child will immediately remember “what mom (dad) said” about this. You can sign up for classes in the search and rescue team in the VKontakte group “Search team “Lisa Alert” Kirov.”

Of the 1,134 people whom the Lisa Alert detachment volunteers had to look for, 1,022 were found.

"Lisa Alert" will teach children how not to get lost...

The official launch of the “Lisa Alert School” took place in Stavropol, within the framework of which volunteers come to schools, kindergartens and conduct large-scale trainings, lectures, quests and other events.

On February 15, the first lesson-lecture was held for first-graders of MBOU Secondary School No. 6 in Stavropol. Lisa Alert volunteers told first-graders about safety rules in the city and in the forest in an accessible, playful manner. Children learned what to do if they got lost in transport or in a large shopping center, how to communicate with strangers, what dangers may lie in wait on the street and at home, and how to avoid them. The first-graders did an excellent job and at the end of the lecture received diplomas as security experts.

There is a sad practice of real experiments that were carried out in Russian cities. Lisa Alert volunteers, with the consent of the parents, tried to take away unfamiliar children. 19 out of 20 children left without thinking about the consequences. Today, the only way to counter this is to teach children safety rules and repeat them from time to time.

The lectures are given by volunteers from the Lisa Alert squad, who take part in the search and have first-hand experience of how children get lost. All lectures, as well as work on searching for missing people, are free. The materials used in the classes are not theory, but practical knowledge that was developed based on the experience of the unit. Lectures are designed for children aged 5 to 11 years.

Volunteers can be invited to any kindergartens and schools in the region. To do this, you need to call the hotline 8-800-700-54-52 or find the PSO “Liza Alert” of the Stavropol Territory on social networks and leave a request for a lesson.

Reference:

The Liza Alert search and rescue team was created in November 2010 after the tragically ended search for a five-year-old girl, Liza Fomkina, in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district of the Moscow region. The volunteers who came to search for Lisa and her aunt decided to do everything in their power to prevent such situations from happening again, and united into a detachment. The new organization was named after Lisa. To date, over the seven years of its existence, more than 20,000 people have been found alive with the participation of the detachment. Last year, more than 10,000 people participated in the search for missing persons with the Lisa Alert team on more than one occasion. In addition to directly searching for those lost in the forest and in the city, the detachment is also involved in prevention - conducts classes for children and parents on safety rules, distributes information materials on how to get ready for the forest, what a child should do if he is lost, and training - several times a day. Large-scale exercises are held every year, trainings are constantly ongoing on various search topics: mastering a navigator, interacting with aviation, leading a lost person out of the forest by telephone, first aid training, information retrieval training, and so on. The squad provides exclusively volunteer assistance; Lisa Alert does not have accounts or virtual accounts; the squad does not accept donations.

In the Stavropol Territory, the Liza Alert PSO began work in October 2017.

It is difficult to find a person who has not heard anything about the Lisa Alert search and rescue team. The year 2010 was remembered by many not for fires or abnormal heat, but for the search for Liza Fomkina, who disappeared in Orekhovo-Zuevo on September 13. A five-year-old girl got lost in the forest, and for five days almost no one looked for her. Lisa was found, but it was already too late. Shocked by this tragic story, the people who responded to the cry for help and almost independently organized the search decided to unite and create a search and rescue team. On October 14, 2010, the Lisa Alert PSO was born. This day became the birthday of a volunteer detachment named after the deceased girl.Volunteers of this detachment search for missing people, mainly children and the elderly. In November 2018, the squad celebrated its eighth anniversary. The squad took part in more than 40,000 searches. And in 2019, 1,342 search requests were already processed, and 942 people were found alive.

"Lisa Alert"is not only a search for missing people, but also a school of harmless advice for children and their parents. Current search engines conduct game trainings, lectures, quests for children and parent meetings.On May 13, volunteers from the LisaAlert School visited the 3rd grade B1 Youth Army students. Instructors They told students what to do if they got lost at a public event, did not have time to get on the bus after their parents, how to get ready for the forest and how to behave in it, why they need a secret word, and much more.

Young Army members took an active part in the conversation. We discussed all the most important safety rules: if you got lost - stay where you are, if you decided to ask for help - ask them to call your adults, tell them where you are - they will definitely find you! Under no circumstances should you leave with strangers, even if you have asked for help or offered something. They repeated the emergency phone number.

The search engines who conducted the event were very welcoming, friendly and responsive. They shared very valuable advice. The students thanked the volunteers for the fascinating and useful conversation, and the volunteers in return wished them success in everything, and, of course, never get lost!

I was always scared to even think about what could happen if my child got lost. But one day I watched a short video in which children turn to adults and ask them to teach them to say “no” to strangers; do not allow them to approach water or go into the forest without adults and teach them what to do if they get lost. After this short video, I promised myself that I would regularly talk to children about safe behavior.

But theory is one thing, practice is another. No, I didn’t intend to “lose” the children on purpose in order to train them. We needed training and a game. And an opportunity presented itself quite soon: on my Instagram feed I saw an announcement that the Lisa Alert School was holding an anniversary quest for #HarmlessTips. Using the link, I registered my six-year-old son and myself as an accompanying adult.

What we check:

Quest #HarmlessTips from the Lisa Alert School

Where:

M. Business center, Presnenskaya embankment. 6 k2, Empire Tower, entrance 1

Price:

For free

Age restrictions:

VKontakte page:

Location and organization

The 10th quest “Harmless Advice” from the Lisa Alert School took place in a stunning place - in one of the skyscrapers of Moscow City. It's just a stone's throw from the metro, and it's simply impossible to get lost. On the territory of Afimall there is paid parking for those who come by personal car.

When I entered the Empire Tower building, I immediately saw an even line of adults and children at the turnstile in front of the elevator hall. Access was strictly according to lists, that is, only those children and adults who had pre-registered for the event could get to the quest. We were greeted by charming minions - that is, volunteers dressed in costumes of characters from the cartoon "Despicable Me". The line was moving quite briskly, so there were no impatient children’s questions in the spirit of “when?” I have not heard.

At the entrance, everyone was given an evacuation plan. That's it!

At the elevator we were again met by a volunteer dressed in a minion costume. I had a complete feeling that we were being led by the hand - the meeting of children and their parents was so smoothly organized. This thought made my soul feel so calm and warm that I wanted to go up to each of the volunteers and shake hands.

Meanwhile, the flow of people did not stop, there were more and more of them...

On the 29th floor, where the quest took place, guests were registered: the children had their name and parents’ phone number written down on a badge and were assigned a group number.

Since there were a lot of people who wanted to take the quest, the children were divided into groups of 8-10 people - they had to wait their turn before the children were invited to the hall. The children left with the instructor, and the adults could stay in the waiting area or listen to a lecture on child safety.

I was amazed how everything was so clear and coherent. The volunteers acted together as systems of one organism. But each of them does this from the bottom of their hearts and expects only one thing: that there will be much less searches... And those that do take place will certainly end with the words “Found, alive!”

How the quest went

Groups of children moved from one location to another. Each of these points had its own instructor, who gave the guys a portion of harmless advice. The children practiced their skills and even received interesting homework. I noticed that some of the children were distracted and tried to get away from the group, but the accompanying instructor carefully returned them to their place. But mostly the children actively participated - answering questions and completing tasks.

The quest lasted about an hour, but it was so dynamic that the guys simply had no time to get bored.

At the end, all participants received diplomas and instructions, thanks to which children will be able to repeat at home what they learned at the quest.

Firstly, classes are taught by experienced, active search engines. That is, these are not theorists, but practitioners.

Secondly, the Lisa Alert School does not have a specific, regular schedule. Classes are held either at the initiative of the detachment (but volunteers are no less busy people than you and me - only they, in addition to family and work, also have a huge number of search tasks), or by invitation (to school, kindergarten, library, etc. . p.) That is, getting into classes is already a great success, don’t miss the chance - follow the announcements.

By the way, many of the parents with whom I spoke at Empire are not the first to bring their children to these classes. And it is right. Children (and adults, too, for that matter) don’t remember everything the first time. And if today you enthusiastically come up with a secret word, shout loudly and take a whistle and chocolate into the forest, then tomorrow or the day after tomorrow you may not remember all this.

Much of the knowledge gained in class can truly save lives.