Practice Safety and Awareness with Wristbands

February is Safety Awareness Month, and you can raise safety awareness by purchasing silicone wristbands from wristbands.com at an affordable price. It is important to educate both adult and children in your community about the importance of safety awareness. Schools and organizations, such as the Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts of America, can do a variety of activities to introduce the topic of safety awareness to kids. It is also important to teach teenage girls, who may be walking alone after school or at night, about taking preventative actions to ensure their safety. Silicone wristbands are being used globally to promote awareness campaigns, like Safety Awareness Month. Wristbands.com offers five unique styles of silicone wristbands, from plain to premium, in 20 bright and bold colors. You can mix and match silicone wristbands colors with an assortment of colors and add custom printing, debossing, or embossing to create one-of-a-kind silicone wristbands to promote Safety Awareness Month during February.

If you are a member of a Neighborhood Watch program, invite local families to your home one evening and hand out a home safety checklist that parents and kids can go through their home and mark off together. When families return their completed checklists to you, reward them with silicone wristbands that have the message, “Safety Awareness Month 2013,” or “My Home is a Safe Haven.” Kids in your community will be proud to wear their silicone Safety Awareness Month wristbands because they are great for striking up conversation. Other kids at school will inquire about the Safety Awareness Month wristbands and will want to learn how they too can make their home safe and earn a stylish awareness campaign wristband. Here are some ideas you can put on your home safety checklist:

• Smoke alarm has working batteries
• Street numbers are clearly visible
• A trusted neighbor has keys to your home
• All entry doors have peepholes
• Fire extinguishers on both ends of house
• All electric outlets have faceplates
• Important documents are stored in a heat-resistant safe
• Sliding glass doors are properly secured
• Emergency numbers posted next to the phone
• Family disaster plan in place for fires/earthquakes

Schools and non-profit organizations, like the Boys and Girls Club of America, can also use wristbands to teach children and teenagers about Safety Awareness Month. Engage the children you mentor with an itinerary full of important safety tips to follow. If a child reminds one of their peers to practice a safe behavior, such as holding scissors downwards when walking, praise them with a custom imprinted Safety Awareness Month silicone wristband. Handing out rewards, like trendy wristbands, will give the children an incentive to continue their safety awareness training. You can also take a trip to teach safety awareness, such as to the fire station or police station. Wristbands.com carries all kinds of Tyvek®, vinyl, plastic, and holographic wristbands that are perfect for single-day applications. Easily identify your group with florescent-colored wristbands from wristbands.com on your Safety Awareness Month field trip.

Teenagers, especially females, should be taught safe habits during Safety Awareness Month, such as always being aware of their surroundings when walking anywhere alone. You can start an awareness campaign using silicone wristbands to raise donations for a women’s charity such as: RAINN (the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization), National Partnership for Women, V-Day (global activist movement to end violence against women and girls), or the Polaris Project (organization that battles all forms of human trafficking). Put flyers up to promote a women’s safety class around your town during Safety Awareness Month. Post them on message boards at community colleges, local universities, public gymnasiums, parks, YMCAs, churches, temples, and on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Charge $20 for the class that will be donated to the charity. At the end of the class, pass out custom silicone wristbands to everyone who successfully completed the course. Encourage mothers and their teenage daughters to attend so they can learn about Safety Awareness Month together. Use a bright silicone color like red or purple to stand out and draw attention to your charitable organization.

Purchase silicone wristbands in bulk quantity and save even more on your Safety Awareness Month wristbands. You can encourage the women and girls who participated in your women’s safety class to purchase 50 or 100 awareness campaign wristbands and sell them to friends and family for $3 a wristband. You will be amazed how much money you can quickly raise for an important cause using a promotional tool like silicone wristbands. Donating money to a non-profit organization that helps people and promotes an important cause makes people feel good about themselves. Give back to your neighborhood this Safety Awareness Month by starting up a wristband campaign. You can list your Safety Awareness Month wristband campaign on a resume, college applications, and even use it as a tax write off. Imagine all the people you can help by taking a miniscule amount of time out of your week and educating others on safety awareness. These types of assemblies bring families and communities together and will encourage people to become more involved in Neighborhood Watch and similar types of programs.    
Wristbands.com always has free giveaways – like t-shirts, pens, and watches – and our silicone wristbands are currently on sale! Don’t wait until the next Safety Awareness Month rolls around to start your safety awareness campaign using popular silicone wristbands. Order today and begin making an impact in your community that will last a lifetime. You will be recognized as a leader and someone who cares about protecting the safety of your friends, family, and community.  Only you can promote Safety Awareness Month using wristbands in your home town.

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ID Wristbands to Reunite Children Lost in Mall

DUBAI: The world’s largest mall is handing out wristbands to little children to help reunite them with their parents should they get lost.

An Emaar Malls Group spokesperson told XPRESS: “Visitors can collect the wristbands at the guest service desks or guest service staff members. The members write down the name of the child, the name and mobile number of the parents or guardian and attach the bracelet to the child’s wrist.”

The service is free of charge.

“We introduced wrist bands for children as an optional additional safety measure… Our security personnel are well-trained to ensure the safety and well-being of families with children, and will offer any assistance needed. With the wristbands we are underlining our commitment to support them in ensuring their children’s safety,” said the spokesperson.

Although the wristbands were first introduced in 2011 for special events that attracted strong footfall, it became a permanent feature from June this year, with greater awareness coming about in recent months. “The initiative is receiving a positive response as we distribute on average about 500 wristbands during the weekend and about 300 during the week. On important holidays such as Eid, higher numbers of wristbands are distributed,” said the spokesperson, who added it could be expanded to other malls.

“It’s a great move as kids have a tendency to run around. My son is just four and I have a tough time keeping track of him in a mall,” said Lekha, an Indian mother visiting the mall. “Using a wristband is a good idea. I have to constantly keep an eye on my kids as they can easily slip from my sight,” said Sarah, another mother.

Some parents, however, were wary of the move. “By giving our contact details, we could actually be inviting trouble,” said one who prefers to use a baby harness to keep her child close to her.

North Myrtle Beach uses Wristbands to Prevent Missing Children

The city of North Myrtle Beach passes out wristbands to families who want a little extra help to keep track of each other.

The free wristbands come in an assortment of colors. Each color coincides with a particular area of the beach.

Lifeguards will write their tower number along with any personal information the family wants to add.
North Myrtle Beach patrol officer Amanda McGraw says the written tower number helps “to see what area the child is staying for the week.”

Vacationer Kevin Hair is all too familiar with the feeling of missing a child. His daughter Lindsey was lost inside their house once.

“It’s a feeling unlike any other one. I’ve been through it once and never want to do it again,” he says.
Hair says losing a child isn’t always because a parent is irresponsible. “I mean in a blink of an eye they can be out of sight and you panic even though you know they’re close by. If you can’t make eye contact, you panic,” he says.

Hair says he does talk about important information with his daughter in case she would get lost. However, he admits having the information on the wristband would be good, in case she forgot.

Police urge parents and caregivers to make a plan with children if they ever do get lost.

Important information to know is where you’re staying, parent’s names, and hometown.

If your child is missing, please contact the police immediately.

If you are interested in a wristband, ask the lifeguard.

Keep Kids Safe with Day Care Child Identification

There are as many reasons why people take their children to day care as there are children who attend day care. Many working parents don’t have a choice. Some parents enroll their children to prepare them for elementary school. They want their child to develop social skills and learning skills. Placing one’s child in the care of another person is a risk. Nothing matters more to a parent than their child’s safety, security and health. Kids wristbands can help keep kids safe.

Secure, durable and tear-resistant kids wristbands come in one size fits all. They have a strong adhesive closer and unique tamper cuts, which cause the wristbands to shred if tampered with. Kids wristbands can withstand the wear and tear of the roughest, toughest play in a child’s day.

Children’s eyes light up and they get excited when they see the bright colors and fun designs of kids wristbands. When parents arrive at their trusted day care to drop off their child for the day, parents can write their child’s name, their own name and the emergency phone number where they can be reached that day on pre-printed lines in permanent marker right onto a kid wristband, and then securely fasten it around their child’s wrist. This information can enable day care providers to do their job more effectively and efficiently if there happens to be any sort of emergency that day.

Children fall ill. That’s just a fact of life. When this happens, especially if it is a contagious virus, it is best to have the child picked up from the day care center by his or her parents—sooner, rather than later—in order prevent other children from getting sick. Kids wristbands make it easy for teachers and nurses to identify the child. If it is determined that it would be best for the child to go home, then the parents’ names and contact information is readily available.

The same holds true for accidents. Children are certainly not strangers to cuts and scrapes. It may not be necessary to contact parents for a minor paper cut, but most injuries—especially those resulting in blood, bumps or black and blue marks—require notifying parents. Some might require medical care. These are times when it is critical for having child identification. Kids wristbands can save the day in these situations.

ID bracelets are tear-proof, sweat-proof, smear-proof, and water-resistant

In addition to having both the child’s and parents’ names, along with emergency contact number, kids wristbands can also be color coded. Each color can represent a specific special need, such as medication allergies, food allergies, dietary needs or restrictions, and the like. As an example, nut allergies could be represented with a red kids wristband. The specific allergy can also be written on the kids wristband, “Allergy: Nuts.” Each day, care takers can check kids wristbands and take inventory of allergies. In the instance of a nut allergies, the care takers can ensure that nuts—an allergy with severe reactions—are prohibited from being in that child’s activity room or classroom.

If there is a medical emergency and a child needs to be transported to urgent care or an emergency room, kids wristband can be extremely helpful to healthcare professionals. Maybe yellow kids wristbands represent special medical needs or medication allergies. A care taker can point out the kids wristband to the healthcare professionals. Any specific conditions or allergies can be written right onto the kids wristband. Doing so can prevent adverse reactions to care—maybe even save the child’s life.

Another way that kids wristbands protect children is identification if they should get lost. Of course, no one ever plans on this happening, but when there is a large group of kids out on a field trip, these things do happen. Let’s say the day care plans a day at the zoo. Distributing kids wristbands with a colorful design can make safety fun for kids. Each kids wristband should have the child’s name, along with the chaperone’s, and the cell phone number where the chaperone can be reached onsite. Chaperone’s can point out security staff to kids, so they know exactly who to ask for help if they happen to get lost. It might be a good idea to introduce the children to one of the security staff. This will help make these authoritative figures more approachable to the shyer children.

Kids wristbands are an excellent aid for keeping children safe in a variety of ways. You just can beat the sense of security that kids wristbands provide. 

Raising Donation with Wrisbands

When members of Signing for Change donated $200 worth of clothes and about $80 worth of toiletries to StandUp for Kids, Executive Director Josephine Clark thought that’s all she would see from them.
“I did not anticipate them to take it any further,” she said.

StandUp for Kids

But the North Kitsap High School American Sign Language students and teacher Karen Johnston, the creators of the Signing for Change project, weren’t done.
After rehearsing with participants in Life Skills — a program for people 18-21 years old with various disabilities that prepares them to be more independent — the group put on a performance June 9. The performance, which included students signing to music, was done in front of an estimated 300-plus audience.
The performance, combined with “Signing for Change” wristband sales, raised more than $1,000. As of Wednesday, the money was still being counted. Prior to the performance, Johnston estimated approximately $1,500 would be raised.
The money will be distributed to the Kitsap chapter of StandUp for Kids, a program to help homeless teens based in Bremerton, and the Pazapa Center for Handicapped Children in Jacmel, Haiti.
Johnston described the performance as “amazing.” In an email, she said more than 300 people attended — possibly close to 400. About 80 people performed.
Clark was asked to say a few words at the church. She reiterated by saying she had never seen “youngsters or any other group for that matter, come up with a plan and bring it to fruition so quickly and so well.”
Because StandUp typically receives most of its donations during the winter holidays, she was grateful to see the Signing for Change event happen in spring.
Clark hopes those in the audience saw what Signing for Change did and will be inspired to do something for the community.
“I don’t think they’ve finished,” Clark said of the project. “This is just the beginning.”
StandUp for Kids provides approximately $600 every month to provide food to those in need. About 180 snacks are provided per day around the county and 21 kids are being fed three meals a day on the weekend. In the Poulsbo area, about 150 homeless kids have been identified.
More than a week before the performance, sophomore Emily Calder told the Herald she did not realize the scale of homelessness in Kitsap. After her and the rest of the students were given statistics, she said “It seems crazy. There are so many homeless people … we didn’t even know.”
On June 9, a speech written by Emily was given prior to the performance. The speech described the approximate 140 students involved in ASL having “a vision for a better tomorrow, which started when we heard statistics about the huge amounts” of need in the community.
“We hope that ‘Signing for Change’ will be a chain reaction,” a copy of the speech reads. “We hope that the good deeds that we have started will spread to the rest of you and realize that one small deed can help out in a huge way.”

Source: North Kitsap Herald Education/Sports Reporter Kipp Robertson at (360) 779-4464.

School Field Trips and Child Safety with Wristbands

Being in charge of a classroom full of kids is a serious responsibility. Their safety is always of utmost concern. This concern is amplified when school field trips and other events are scheduled. Child safety wristbands are a great solution for those just-in-case scenarios, like when a child may accidentally wander away from the group on a school excursion or get lost in the crowd. The safety wristbands give both parents and teachers peace of mind, and instill children with a sense of security. Plus, kids love wearing them!

Wristbands provide an easy, inexpensive way to help assist child safety efforts through identification. We offer a couple different types of child safety wristbands, so you are sure to find one that meets the needs of any kind of school field trip or event.

Our Expressions wristbands work great for field trips in which the entire class leaves together to visit an off-campus venue, like a museum, and then returns back to the school together. The child safety wristbandshave pre-printed lines where you can use a permanent marker to write the child’s name, along with the chaperone’s name and cell phone number. As an added measure of safety, wristbands can be turned inside out so that strangers are not able to see the child’s name. Instead, the emergency contact information is only exposed upon the child reaching out to an authority figure and asking for help.

During field trips, chaperones should have their cell phones with them and the ringer turned on at all times. If a child does become separated from the school group, they can approach an authority figure and the chaperone can be called immediately. The child can be reunited with the group quickly and safely.

If you are planning a field trip to a museum, zoo, amusement park, aquarium or other such attraction for kids, don’t hesitate to ask whether they provide child safety wristbands to students. Businesses that cater to the wonderment and happiness of children are just as concerned about their safety and well-being as parents and teachers.

Parents can also get great use out of child safety wristbands; especially if you have an active family that goes on a lot of outings together. Whether it’s to a ballgame, theater, observatory or mini golf, a child safety wristband certainly can add a cushion of security to the day.

Another type of wristband is our Securmatch® or Securband Plus®, which have a matching, numbered, tear-off stub. The child wears the numbered wristband and the parent or guardian retains the matching numbered stub. This child safety wristband works well for an event, like a school sponsored theme party, in which parents drop off their child, and then pick them up at the end of the event. When it’s time to go, the school or host can verify the numbers match.

Another great use for this type of child safety wristband is when parents host a large birthday party for their son or daughter at a public eatery, like a pizza or ice cream parlor. Maybe a guest’s parents drop him or her off, but designate a grandparent to pick up the child. Not only should the parents communicate to the host who they are entrusting to pick up their child, but also a matching, numbered, tear-off stub could serve as further verification in case the hosts have never met the grandparent before.

So, where’s the fun amongst all this safety stuff? Like we said before, kids love to wear wristbands. They love the bright, colors and fun designs. And, we’ve got plenty to choose from! We offer more than 100 combinations of designs and colors so you can find the perfect child safety wristbandfor your field trip or event. Wearing a colorful wristband with a cool design makes kids feel important—like they are part of a special club. Don’t be surprised if they show ’em off just a little bit, either. They are sure to wear their wristband weeks or even months after the adventure is done, savoring and treasuring the memories. When they finally decide to remove their wristband, children can save it as a keepsake of a fun day away from the classroom—good times spent with their friends and teachers or family.