Click here to view the Stranger Danger Video.

With supervision by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, this video was written and directed by film students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. It was designed to help children avoid potentially dangerous encounters with adults not known to them.

Acting students from the LaVilla School of the Arts provided the "talent" for the production, thereby ensuring the message would be age appropriate. The Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida provided the funding, through a grant from the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Prevention.

With approval from Duval County Schools, funding from the Boys and Girls Club included distribution of the video to every elementary school in Duval County. The Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida has 12 sites, nine in Duval. It serves 1300 children.

Officer Keith Jowers of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office supervised the production, as one of the JSO's subject matter experts on stranger danger. He is a veteran of the JSO community affairs division, having worked as a School Resource Officer in the middle and high schools and as a School Education Officer, in the elementary schools.

Click here for more information about The Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida.

Click here for more information about Duval County Public Schools.

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