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The Kids Safety Smart Organization

Kids Safety Smart Mission Statement
Jesus said, “suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God”.
Kids Safety Smart is an interactive learning program, teaching Kids the importance of safety awareness. Our focus and dedication is to the unconditional issues of kid’s safety. We sponsor and give our support to any program or organization that advocates child safety.
Kids Safety Smart is not a political forum; except in issues concerning child safety. We do not support or affiliate our programs with any political groups or individuals who are seeking public office.
Our programs are strictly geared for the education of kids, parents and teachers in safety issues.
Through our educational learning program, we offer aid to schools providing a resource for teachers to find safety material and literature. Our safety booklets, Kids Are Fire Safety Smart, Kids Are Home Safety Smart, Kids Are School Safety Smart, and Kids Are Stranger Smart, Run & Yell, are free to schools, teachers and students and can be found on our web site at www.kidssafetysmart.com.
Kids Safety Smart is a resource for Drug Awareness Education. Our booklet, Drugs and Disaster, is an informative guide written to educate kids and teens in the dangers of doing drugs. Drugs are the number one cause of death and destruction in children’s lives. Through the Kids Safety Smart program we offer free summer camp to unfortunate kids who other wise could not afford to go to camp.
The Kids Safety Smart Camp is located in Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee.
The Kids Safety Smart Camp is open to all kids who want to come and learn safety rules and gain a positive reinforcement not to do drugs.
Kids Safety Smart is dedicated to being a safe haven for kids in trouble. We provide for parents with children, who need protection from an abusive spouse and parent, a safe place to live in order to help get their lives back on a more positive tract. Over 400, 000 kids are sexually abused each year and 3 million are abused through domestic violence. Ninety-five percent of all abused children are by a parent, a relative or friend of the family. As these statistics continues to rise, these are the only cases that are reported each year. It is estimated another 1 million cases will go unreported. It is the mission of Kids Safety Smart to be an advocate for these children who are abused, to lend our voice with others who also support and defend children’s right to grow up in a happy and safe environment.
It is the future mission of Kids Safety Smart to establish nation wide Kids Safety Smart help centers for children, giving kids a safe place to find someone who cares about them and their needs, someone who will listen.
Through these help centers we will recruit volunteers, mostly from the senior citizens group, who meet our criteria for helping to mentor a child. No child left behind is our resolve.
Kids Safety Smart strives to be a proactive part in children’s lives, to be a safe place for kids who come seeking our help, whether to solve a problem or to educate them about safety.
This is our purpose, to promote Kids Safety.

Kids Safety Smart Program Operation
Program: The Kids Safety Smart program is an educational program teaching kids the importance of safety awareness. Through our web site and safety material, we promote an interactive learning program teaching kids safety rules. Our goal and purpose is to help better children’s lives.
     Our program consists of the Kids Safety Smart booklets:
          A. Kids Are Fire Safety Smart
          B. Kids Are Home Safety Smart
          C. Kids Are School Safety Smart
          D. Kids Are Stranger Smart; Run & Yell
          E. Drugs and Disaster

Structure: The cooperate structure of Kids Safety Smart is as follows:
     The Board of Directors;
         Chairman – Trustee – Director
         Secretary – Treasure
         7 Members of the Board referred to as Delegates
     Executive Leaders
     Board Development Committee
     Associates
     Community Volunteers

Chairman: The Chairman of the Board is responsible for the day-to-day functions of the Kids Safety Smart Program. The Chairman shall delegate authority to the active members of the program as needed and is responsible for the overall production of Kids Safety Smart.

Trustee: The Trustee is the overseer of Kids Safety Smart policy and is responsible for the code of ethics being enforced by Kids Safety Smart members. The Trustee also heads various committees delegated by the Board of Directors. The Trustee is also the director of the Kids Safety Smart Camp located in Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee.

Director: The Director is responsible for the total operation of the Kids Safety Smart Program.

Secretary: The Secretary is responsible for maintaining the Kids Safety Smart records and Board meeting minutes. The Secretary also sends out announcements and keeps tract of all Kids Safety Smart personnel.

Treasure: The Treasure is responsible for maintaining finance records and heading finance committees.

Delicates: Delegates are the 7 members of the Board that chair various committees designated by the Chairman of the Board.

Ex. Leader: The executive Leader is responsible for motivating and directing associates in active programs and community projects.

Associates: Associates are people recruited by the Board of Directors to participate in community programs and projects that promotes the Kids Safety Smart agenda.

Volunteers: Volunteers are people who want to be a proactive part of Kids Safety Smart working in various community projects as needed. Such as mentoring a child or working in community relations through Kids Safety Smart.

Agenda: Kids Safety Smart is an educational program teaching kids the importance of safety awareness. Our programs include school participation and being an educational resource for safety. Kids Safety Smart is an advocate for the Kids Safe Home Program. Other programs include being a resource for Scholarship information.

Projects: Community projects include; mentoring a child project, sending a child to camp, operation school classroom phone and our scholarship program.

Help Centers: It is the goal of Kids Safety Smart to establish, develop and maintain Help Centers across the country to be a safe haven for kids who need someone to care and listen. It will be the agenda of these Help Centers to promote the Kids Safety Smart program. From these Help Centers Executive Leaders, Associates and Volunteers can work with troubled kids as well as kids who might be entering the age where prevention can detour them from taking the wrong path in life.
The majority of the Kids Safety Smart Funding has been designated to this purpose.
Our resolve is No Child Left Behind.

Web Site: Our web site can be found at kidssafetysmart.com   Email us at kidssafetysmart@yahoo.com

Funds: Fundraisers are for the sole benefit of funding the Kids Safety Smart Program.
Fundraisers are delegated by the Board of Directors and are accountable to the Chairman, the Trustee and the Director. No fundraiser may be valid in the name of Kids Safety Smart unless it has the Board of Directors approval.

Types of Fundraisers: Street Marker Sales. Change Jars. Ad sales. Private donations.

Camp: The Kids Safety Smart Camp is located in Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee and is open to all kids who want to come and learn safety rules and a positive reinforcement not to do drugs.

Ethics Code: The Kids Safety Smart Program adheres to the highest code of ethics.
Members who participate in the Kids Safety Smart Program are required to observe and hold to this code of ethics.
1. Life style must be held above reproach.
2. The complete safety of a child is first above all else.
3. Members must be hard working and willing to be dedicated completely to the cause of safety for children.
4. Members must be truthful and hold core values of integrity defined as an honest person.
5. Member must recognize the importance of forgiveness but realize the need for accountability.
6. Members must hold the respect of the community and must be respectful to others.
7. No member is permitted to interface one on one with a child. It is required that all mentoring of children through the Kids Safety Smart Program be done as couples defined as a man and a woman. We believe it is important for a child to have the influence of both, a father or father figure and a mother or mother figure. Our rule for one on one interfacing is for your safety as well as for the safety of the child.
8. Common sense and good judgment is crucial when dealing with children. Our members must have a deep understanding of what is right and wrong and be consciously aware of the Golden Rule.
9. Members must be willing to offer their service in order to help people in need.
10. Members must be advocates for causes against social injustice.
11. Members must recognize the need to strengthen relationships among people in an effort to promote, restore, maintain, and enhance the well being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities.
12. Members must be competent and maintain a professional quality and dignity, especially when dealing with people through the Kids Safety Smart Program.
13. Members should strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills. To apply them in practice when they can, especially when dealing with children.
14. Members who work with the Kids Safety Smart Programs must be committed to the cause.
15. Members must respect the privacy and confidentiality of the children and people whom they work with through Kids Safety Smart Programs.
16. Sexual Relationships within the confines of the Kids Safety Smart Program, which is defined as being between a member and a child’s parent who is in the Kids Safety Smart Program is strictly forbidden. A personal relationship between members who are colleagues is accepted when it is 2 single people pursuing a healthy and moral relationship. Kids Safety Smart supports the family life style defined as a mom and dad dedicated to raising happy, safe, moral and productive children.
17. Sexual Harassment will not be tolerated. Sexual harassment includes sexual advances, sexual solicitation, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Any wrong sexual behavior of any kind that causes harm, which is immoral or criminal, will be dealt with severely. No second chance and no appeal.
18. Derogatory or Foul Language should not be a part of our member’s vocabulary.
19. Members should not permit their private conduct to interfere with their ability to fulfill their professional responsibilities.
20. Members should not participate in, condone, or be associated with dishonesty, fraud, or deception.
21. Social workers should not allow their own personal problems, psychosocial distress, legal problems, substance abuse, or mental health difficulties to interfere with their professional judgment and performance or to jeopardize the best interests of people for whom they have a professional responsibility. Members whose personal problems, psychosocial distress, legal problems, substance abuse, or mental health difficulties interfere with their professional judgment and performance should immediately seek consultation and take appropriate remedial action by seeking professional help, making adjustments in workload, terminating practice, or taking any other steps necessary to protect themselves and others. This is immediate ground for termination from the Kids Safety Smart Program.
22. Members who deliberately misrepresent Kids Safety Smart will be immediately terminated from the program.
23. Members of the Kids Safety Smart Program are people who give their complete service to their community in times of trouble as well as in times of success.
24. Members should act to prevent and eliminate domination of, exploitation of, and discrimination against any person, group, or class on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, age, marital status, or mental or physical disability.

Future: Kids Safety Smart remains hopeful for the future, for new programs and projects being developed that can make a difference to help better the lives of children and their parents.

Kids Safety Smart Bylaws
Kids Safety Smart is a Non-Profit Organization; created and dedicated to the purpose of child safety.

ARTICLE I - NAME, PURPOSE
Section 1: The name of the organization shall be Kids Safety Smart.
Section 2: Kids Safety Smart was formed to increase public awareness of issues concerning child safety; to support and conduct research, educational and informational activities in order to increase the publics awareness of these important issues. Kids Safety Smart is an interactive learning program, geared for the education of children in the importance of safety awareness. Our focus and dedication is to the unconditional issues of kid’s safety. Kids Safety Smart is a support foundation to the advocacy of child safety issues. We sponsor and give our support to any program or organization that advocates child safety. Kids Safety Smart is not a political forum; accept in issues concerning child safety. We do not support or affiliate our programs with any political groups or individuals who are seeking public office. Our programs are strictly geared for the education of kids, parents and teachers in safety issues. Our goal and purpose is to be an increment towards helping better the lives of children and their parents. Through our educational learning program, we offer aid to schools providing a resource for teachers to find safety material and literature. Our safety booklets, Kids Are Fire Safety Smart, Kids Are Home Safety Smart, Kids Are School Safety Smart, and Kids Are Stranger Smart, Run & Yell, are free to schools, teachers and students and can be found on our web site at www.kidssafetysmart.com. Kids Safety Smart is a resource for Drug Awareness Education. Our booklet, Drugs and Disaster, is an informative guide written to educate kids and teens in the dangers of doing drugs. Drugs are the number one cause of death and destruction in children’s lives. Through the Kids Safety Smart program we offer Free Summer Camp to unfortunate kids who other wise could not afford to go to camp. The Kids Safety Smart Camp is located in Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee. The Kids Safety Smart Camp is open to all kids who want to come and learn safety and positive reinforcement not to do drugs. Kids Safety Smart is dedicated to being a safe haven for kids in trouble. We also provide for parents with children who need protection from an abusive spouse and parent, a safe place to live in order to help them get their lives back on a more positive tract. Over 400, 000 kids are sexually abused each year and 3 million are abused through domestic violence. Ninety-five percent of all abused children are by a parent, a relative or friend of the family. As these statistics continues to rise, these are the only cases that are reported each year. It is estimated that another 1 million cases will go unreported. It is the mission of Kids Safety Smart to be an advocate for these children who are abused. To lend our voice with others who also support and defend children’s right to grow up in a happy and safe environment. It is the mission of Kids Safety Smart to establish nation wide, Kids Safety Smart Help Centers for children, giving kids a safe place to find someone who cares about them and their needs, someone who will listen. Through these help centers we will recruit volunteers, mostly from the senior citizens group who meet our criteria for helping to mentor a child. No child left behind is our resolve. Kids Safety Smart wants to be a proactive part in children’s lives. To be a safe place for kids who will come seeking our help, whether to solve a problem or to educate them about safety. All of our programs are FREE.

ARTICLE II - MEMBERSHIP
Section 1: Application for voting membership shall be open to anyone who supports the purpose statement in Article 1.
Section 2: Continuing membership is contingent upon being up-to-date on membership dues.
Section 3: Membership shall be granted upon a majority vote of the Board.
Section 4: Members vote only on issues presented by the board, pertaining to activities sponsored by Kids Safety Smart. Section 5: The Board shall have the authority to establish and define nonvoting categories of membership.

ARTICLE III - MEETINGS OF MEMBERS
Section 1: Annual Meeting. The date of the regular annual meeting shall be set by the Board of Directors who shall also set the time and place. At least one High-ranking member of the Board shall be present.
Section 2: Special Meetings. The Chairman, the Trustee, the Director or a simple majority of the Board may call special meetings. A petition signed by sixty percent of the voting members may call a special meeting.
Section 3: Notice. Notice of each meeting shall be given to each voting member, by mail, not less than ten days before the meeting.
Section 4: Only the top 3 High-ranking members of the board can call for a vote on any issue.

ARTICLE IV - BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1: Board Role, Size, Composition. The General Board of Directors is responsible for overall policy and direction of Kids Safety Smart and delegate’s responsibility for day-to-day operations of Kids Safety Smarts Director and committees. The Board shall have up to twelve, and no fewer than five, members. The board receives no compensation other than reasonable expenses, which are approved by 2 of the 3 High-ranking members of the board. The Board shall consist of 5 officers and 7 delegates. The 3 High-ranking members of the Board shall be the Chairman, the Trustee and the Director. No vote can be called without at least 1 High-ranking Board member present to call for the vote.
Section 2: Meetings. The Board shall meet at least quarterly, at an agreed upon time and place.
Section 3: Board Elections. Up to seven Board members shall be elected as delegates to the Board. A two thirds vote of the entire membership of the Board shall elect delegates. The High-ranking officers shall appoint the Treasure and the Secretary after nominees are presented from members of the Board.
Section 4: Board Development Committee. A Board Development Committee shall be appointed by the Board to represent diverse aspects of the nonprofit community, in fund raising and other events that promote the Kids Safety Smart agenda. The Board Development Committee shall have three board members, with the Director as head of the committee. Committee members shall serve three-year terms. The Board Development Committee shall be responsible for developing nominees for board elections, board committees, and planning for board training and leadership development. The Director shall appoint members to the Board Development Committee.
Section 5: Election Procedures. The Director shall appoint 3 nominees to the General Board to fill a vacancy of the Board from a pool of members who serve on the Board Development Committee. The Chairman or Trustee will call for a vote and members of the Board will vote on the nominee of their choice to fill the vacancy.
Section 6: Associates. The twelve General Board members shall recruit and elect up to seven additional people from the community to serve as Associate members of the Board. Associate members should represent diverse interests of the community. A majority of the board must represent organizations that serve or advocate Kids Safety. At the first board meeting after the election, the board will identify areas of needed representation, with the goal of maintaining a board broadly representative of the nonprofit sector. The Board Development Committee will be responsible to recommend nominees for Associate positions for an election by the board at the board meeting one month after the member representative election. No later than three months after the election of new member representative board members, Associate members will join the board. At-large board members will serve two-year terms, to a maximum of six years.
Section 7: Terms. All Board members shall serve three-year terms, but are eligible for re-election. However, no board member shall serve more than four three-year terms. The first Board will include members with one and two-year terms to begin staggered terms. The Chairman, the Trustee and the Director shall hold their positions for life.
Section 8: Quorum. A quorum must be attended by at least forty percent of the Board members and at least 1 High-ranking officer before business can be transacted or motions made or passed.
Section 9: Notice. An official Board meeting requires that each Board member have written notice two weeks in advance.
Section 10: Officers and Duties. There shall be five officers of the Board consisting of a Chair, Trustee, Director, Secretary, and Treasurer. Their duties are as follows: The Chair shall convene regularly scheduled Board meetings, shall preside or arrange for other members of the executive committee to preside at each meeting in the following order: Trustee, Director, Secretary and Treasurer. The Trustee will chair committees on special subjects designated by the board and is overseer for program policy. The Director is responsible for the operation of the Kids Safety Smart Programs. The Secretary shall be responsible for keeping records of Board actions, including overseeing the taking of minutes at all board meetings, sending out meeting announcements, distributing copies of minutes and the agenda to each Board member, and assuring that corporate records are maintained. The Treasurer shall make a report at each Board meeting. Treasurer shall chair the finance committee, assist in the preparation of the budget, help develop fundraising plans, and make financial information available to Board members and the public. The treasure works under the Authority of the 3 High-ranking members of the Board.
Section 11: Vacancies. When a vacancy on the Board exists, the Director will nominate 3 members from the Board Development Committee to be voted on by the General Board to fill the vacancy. These nominations shall be sent out to Board members with the regular Board meeting announcement, to be voted upon at the next Board meeting.
Section 12: Resignation, Termination and Absences. Resignation from the Board must be in writing and received by the Secretary. The twelve representative Board members must represent a voting member organization. If a member organization notifies the Board that their representative who serves on the Board no longer represents the member organization, the person is no longer eligible to be one of the twelve representative Board members. A Board member shall be dropped for excess absences from the Board if he or she has three unexcused absences from Board meetings in a year. A Board member may be removed for other reasons by a three-fourths vote of the remaining directors. The Chairman, the Trustee and the Director are the only ones who are exempt from these terms.
Section 13: Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board shall be called upon the request of the Chair or one-third of the Board. Notices of special meetings shall be sent out by the Secretary to each Board member postmarked two weeks in advance.
Section 14. The Board may set dues schedules for memberships.

ARTICLE V - COMMITTEES
Section 1: The Board may create committees as they are needed, such as public relations, safety education, fund raising and data collection. There shall be three standing committees - Executive, Personnel and Finance Committees. The Board Chair appoints all committee chairs. Committee chairs must be members of the Board.
Section 2: The five officers serve as the members of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall review the performance of the Executive Leaders. Except for the power to amend the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, the Executive Committee shall have all of the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the intervals between meetings of the Board of Directors, subject to the direction and control of the Board of Directors.
Section 3: Finance Committee. The Treasurer is chair of the Finance Committee, which includes three other Board members. The Finance Committee is responsible for developing and reviewing fiscal procedures, a fundraising plan, and annual budget with staff and other Board members. The Board must approve the budget, and all expenditures must be within the budget. Any major change in the budget must be approved by the 3 High-ranking members of the General Board. The fiscal year shall be the calendar year. Quarterly reports are required to be submitted to the Board showing income, expenditures and pending income. The financial records of the Council are public information and shall be made available to the membership, Board members and the public.
Section 4: Personnel Committee and Hiring Policy. The Board as a whole is responsible for hiring the Executive Leader. The Executive Leader is responsible for hiring and supervising other staff members. The Personnel Committee shall operate as a grievance committee, and is responsible for developing a personnel policy.

ARTICLE VI – EXECUTIVE LEADER AND STAFF
Section 1: Executive Leader. The Executive Leader is hired by the Board. The Executive Leader has day-to-day responsibility for the Council, including carrying out the Council's goals and Board policy. The Executive Leader will attend all Board meetings, report on the progress of the Council, answer questions of Board members and carry out the duties described in the job description. The Board can designate other duties as necessary.

ARTICLE VII - SAFETY PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS
Section 1: All safety projects and programs must be approved by officers of the Board and 1 High-ranking Board member. Funding for these projects are taken from the Kids Safety Smart Program.

ARTICLE VIII – PROGRAM DIRECTOR, WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS
Section 1: The Program Director and all Program workers when working with children must follow a strict code of ethics as prescribed by Kids Safety Smart. Anyone performing duties with Kids Safety Smart is subject to the code of ethics. The following 3 rules are mandatory.
         A. When working with a child through a Kids Safety Smart Program, one on one interfacing is not permitted. All workers must work in couples defined as a man and a woman. This includes volunteers and anyone working through the Kids Safety Smart Program. Any violation of this rule will result in immediate termination.
         B. Workers who are associated with Kids Safety Smart will be asked to live a life style that is in accordance with a moral social behavior that is above reproach. The discretion of the Board is the determining factor of who is allowed to associate themselves with Kids Safety Smart as workers or volunteers. If a worker is found to be in a disagreement with the Board on these issues, the Board will terminate that worker or volunteer from the Kids Safety Smart program. There is no appeal from the Boards decision.
         C. The Board of Directors as needed, can add to the Kids Safety Smart code of ethics without having to amend these Bylaws. The document pertaining to the rules set by Kids Safety Smart is referred to as the Kids Safety Smart Code of Ethics.

ARTICLE IX – FUND RAISING
Section 1: All Fund Raisers must be approved by the Board and must be reported to the Board in order to be accountable to the Kids Safety Smart Programs. All contributions made to the Kids Safety Smart Programs must meet the approval of the Board. Kids Safety Smart is under no obligation to anyone who makes a contribution to the Program and everyone who contributes is considered to be equal regardless of the amount of the donation.

ARTICLE X - AMENDMENTS
Section 1: These Bylaws may be amended when necessary by a two-thirds majority of the 3 High-ranking members of the General Board of Directors. Proposed amendments must be submitted to the Secretary to be sent out with regular Board announcements. These Bylaws are the prelude to the purpose of the Kids Safety Smart Program

Kids Safety Smart    P. O. Box 71702 Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37407   *    423-614-0220
Chairman: Jan Roberts     *     Trustee: Rev. Tom Brumlow     *     Director: Michael Brumlow