The Mesa Police Department Crime Prevention Unit offers the following brochures to help keep your children safe:

• Adventure by Bicycling: Tips on Bicycling Safety
• Babysitting: A Guide for Sitters
• Bully Prevention
• Cell Phone Safety
• Childproof Your Home (PDF)
• Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
• Club Drugs and Predatory Drugs
• Cyberbullying
• Cybersafety for Kids Online: A Parent's Guide
• Date Rape
• Dater's Bill of Rights
• Drug Facts
• Dying to Drink: The Hard Facts
• Gun Safety: A Parent's Guide
• Halloween Safety Tips
• How to Be "Streetwise and Safe"
• Keeping Kids Safe, Kids Keeping Safe
• Latchkey Children
• Methamphetamines: Nothing to Rave About
• Power Tripping (info about dealing with bullies)
• Safety Tips for Runners and Walkers
• Simple Rules of Safety (for parents and children)
• Teen Dating Violence
• What Can a Parent do in the Fight to Have a Drug Free Child?
• What's a Parent to do About Gangs?
• Who is a Stranger? (stranger danger)
   
• Get Straight A's In Safety (video)

For more information on personal safety, home security, holiday safety, etc., please visit the Literature Available section at www.cityofmesa.org/police/literature/default.aspx.

For additional information on drugs, please visit www.cityofmesa.org/police/drugs/default.aspx

For information on child safety seats visit http://www.bannerhealth.com/channels/patients+and+visitors/facilities/
arizona/desert/desert+sammy/safety+seats.aspx OR http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/childps/.

Additional information for parents and children:

• http://www.webwisekids.com (a site for parents and children on how to protect themselves while on the Internet)

• http://www.gangfreekids.org/tips.html  (tips for parents and children on how to not get involved with gangs)

• www.streetsentz.com

• www.netsmartz.org

Additional information from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children:

• Child Safety on the Information Highway (English)
• Child Safety on the Information Highway (Spanish)
• Know the Rules...Safety Tips for the Holidays (English)
• Know the Rules...When Your Child is Flying Unaccompanied (English)
• Know the Rules...When Your Child is Traveling Unaccompanied by Bus or Train (English)
• Teen Safety on the Information Highway (English)
• Teen Safety on the Information Highway (Spanish)
• When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide (English)
• Personal Safety for Children: A Guide for Parents (English)
• Personal Safety for Children: A Guide for Parents (Spanish)

(Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view/download the above information. If you are having trouble viewing these documents, right click on the link and choose "save target as" and save the document to your hard drive; open from there.)