"Samantha's PRIDE Community Awareness and Child Watch"
(in California)

Launched in California in January 2004, Samantha's PRIDE is the first program of The Joyful Child Foundation. Samantha's PRIDE is a neighborhood child protection program with free training and materials to empower neighbors to protect children from sexual abuse and abduction. Parents volunteer to wear PRIDE Protector vests to watch children outside in public view, at neighborhood events, playing or walking to or from school.