Edwards Funeral Home
201 North 12th Street. P.O. Box 3
Fort Smith, AR 72902
(479)782-8203


Edwards Van-Alma Funeral Home
P.O. Box 1345, 4100 Alma Highway
Van Buren, AR 72956
(479)474-5081

"Escape School is a program to teach parents and their children, preventative abduction techniques. Since 2002 we have presented Escape school to over 12,000 children.
You always hope abduction will not happen in your community, but as abductions continue to rise across our country, I feel our children need to be equipped too be smart, and not scared.

We presented Escape to a local elementary school with grades kindergarten through sixth grade. Over the Christmas holidays, one of the children in the kindergarten class was playing in his neighborhood, when a vehicle approached and tried to lure him over to the car. He remembered what he learned at Escape School, and immediately ran home. He told his mother and the police, that he knew what to do from what he learned at Escape School. This may not have been an attempted abduction, but the important thing is that he remembered that an adult (who you don’t know) should never ask a child to come near a vehicle.

I feel a responsibility to our community to offer these free programs, in an effort to honor our veterans and to protect and equip our children."

Visit www.escapeschool.com