FREE Child Safety Day "Print-A-Thon" at Yucaipa Iris Festival
Child Safety is one of our community's most important issues, but it is one we tend to take for granted until a tragedy happens.
News Release:
By Tricia Griffith
KlaasKids Media
(801)560-1933
Local Contact:
Carmen Brown
(760)774-0827
YUCAIPA - Yucaipa Valley Christian School District and Little Smiles Pediatric Dentistry will host a KlaasKids Print-A-Thon to promote and educate families about child safety and fingerprint and photograph children at no cost.
Each participating child will receive a comprehensive packet of child safety tools. Using state of the art computerized systems that were originally designed for a federal law enforcement agency each child will receive digitized fingerprints, an updated photograph, a DNA Collection Kit developed by the California DNA Laboratory, pro-active child safety tips and a 9-point plan on what to do if your child disappears.
Yucaipa Valley Christian School District, Little Smiles Pediatric Dentistry and
Marc Klaas (father of Polly Klaas) invite families to a FREE Child Safety Day "Print-A-Thon" Event.
Parents are encouraged to bring their children to The Iris Festival between 10am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday, May 16 and 17, 2009. A KlaasKids representative will be available to answer questions about child safety and will administer the free finger -printing and photographing. A bio-document will be given to parents for
safekeeping and a DNA kit will also be distributed to all participants.
WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, May 16 & 17, 2009 between 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Iris Festival
Community Park
34900 Oak Glen Road
Yucaipa, California
The KlaasKids Foundation was created following the 1993 kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas. KlaasKids Foundation child safety programs are designed to promote awareness and education for parents and children in an effort to protect children against violence.
Since 1994, Print-A-Thon events have fingerprinted and photographed more than 1,000,000 children at no cost to families and without data basing children's personal and private information.
As a service to the community Yucaipa Valley Christian School District and Little Smiles
Pediatric Dentistry is underwriting this program so that there is no charge to families.
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Hello! I noticed that your event has already passed. Is this an annual event? And if so, what are the dates for next year's event?
Thank you
-Amanda