Safety Town serves to reinforce the messages that children already receive from parents, day care providers and preschools.  Along with pedestrian and traffic safety, the innovative curriculum includes poison prevention, water safety, playground safety, animal safety stranger awareness, bicycle safety, school bus safety, and more.  Safety Town's goal is to help children recognize hazardous situations and react to them.  Children have "hands-on" learning while riding through the Safety Town streets along with singing safety songs, playing safe games, coloring and participating in other activities all designed around the safety message of the day.

 

Modeled by the standards established by the National Safety Town Center, Safety Town is a collaborative effort in the community.  The directors bring together safety professionals, teachers, schools, businesses, civic groups and parents as well as older adult and teen volunteers to help provide important direction to our children.  Safety Town is taught by a certified teacher experienced with young children.  Volunteers, who assist with the activities, are screened and given appropriate training.

 

The goal of Safety Town's directors is to procure all materials needed through donation.  Businesses and civic organizations can buy street signs; pay for the cost of building houses, purchase license plates for the "cars;" and much more.  Attendees pay a minimal tuition fee which covers the cost of student materials and a t-shirt.  Scholarships are available.