Magical You
For youth, 12 to 17
True stories, lessons and an attitude barometer that help a teenager stay centered, so they become neither a bully nor a victim.
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How it started
She has already proved this works once.
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1970s, Berkeley, California
Neighbors organized themselves
A young mother started knocking on doors. Within two and a half years her community had cut crime in half, without the help of a local police department.
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Alternative to Fear
The method was written down
Funded by the California Department of Youth, her guide reached thousands of police departments, libraries and the FBI, and turned one neighborhood's result into something any community could repeat.
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Nationwide
It became Neighborhood Watch
That guide became the foundation of the national Neighborhood Watch program, the model that still shapes how American streets look after each other.
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Today
The work turned toward children
Safe Kids Now takes the same principle indoors: children who are centered and self aware do not become victims or bullies, and families who know their neighbors raise them.
Safety was never something a department handed down to a street. It was always something a street decided for itself.
Stephanie L. Mann
