Community Life: Safety & Wandering (Families with Children/Teens)

A downloadable guide offering tips, products and strategies to help families keep children safe. Topics include water safety, elopement (running away), fire safety, firearms safety and poison control.

The Autism Wandering Awareness Alerts Response and Education (AWAARE) Collaboration is a working group of six national non-profit autism organizations whose mission is to prevent autism-related wandering incidents and deaths.

An online guide for family members to help protect a loved one with autism. This kit offers lots of advice and tools, as well as additional resources.

A kit specifically for First Responders is available here.

Teachers can apply for a specially-designed kit for educators and aides here.

The primary mission of Project Lifesaver is to provide timely response to save lives and reduce potential injury for adults and children who wander due to Alzheimer’s, Autism, and other related conditions or disorders.

PLI is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization that bridges the technological gap for “at risk” populations and public safety agencies. They provide police, fire/rescue and other first responders with a comprehensive program on the use of specialized electronic search and rescue equipment, technology and procedures, as well as teaching rescuers how to effectively communicate with people afflicted with cognitive conditions, all of which are essential to a successful rescue.

The Connecting for Kids wandering safety kit is designed to help your family begin its conversation about wandering and how best to prepare for it.

Wandering safety kits are available at no cost to Connecting for Kids families, while supplies last. Kits include:

GE door/window alarms (2-pack)
Write-on ID bracelet
Four laminated stop sign visuals
S.T.O.P. Wandering quick guide
Limit one kit per family, while supplies last.