The Akron Summit Community Action, Inc. Child Assault Prevention Project, known as CAP, is a community-based prevention project program aimed at reducing children’s vulnerability to assault through education and awareness.

CAP trains children, parents and teachers to prevent peer assault, stranger abduction and known adult assault.  CAP seeks to integrate the best resources of a community in an effort to reduce a child or young person's vulnerability to verbal, physical and sexual assault.  CAP projects work closely with local school districts, parent/teacher associations, home school groups and other community groups.  CAP has a threefold educational approach to prevention which includes trainings in:  staff in-service, parent programs and individual classroom workshops for children for preschool children ages 3 to 5 years old and elementary children in the lst, 3 rd and 5 th grades ages 6 to 12 years old.

GOALS OF CAP
The goals of CAP are to empower children and reduce their vulnerability by providing information to children and the community, reducing children's powerlessness and dependency and increasing children's sources of support and assistance.

CURRICULUM
CAP utilizes a personal safety curriculum based on the belief that all children have the right to be "Safe, Strong, and Free." Children participate in role plays and discussion that empower them to recognize abusive or dangerous situations, resist abuse, and tell a trusted adult if they have been abused. The CAP curriculum has been independently evaluated in nationally published studies and is recognized as one of the most effective school-based child abuse prevention programs available.

EMPOWING AND EDUCATING CHILDREN OF THEIR RIGHT TO SAY NO”!
The CAP team provides the children with age appropriate role-playing scenarios during the classroom workshops. The role-playing teaches the children to recognize the strategies to use to be safe through education and awareness. Most importantly, it shows the children that it is okay to tell someone.