Create a countdown calendar for presenting the safety course
Step #2: 3 months before/ahead of your Racing for Safety course, do the following:
Decide who you will teach. You can work with children at a school, church group, neighborhood, or scout group versus an entire community.
Identify your goals for the course. A list of possible goals is noted below: Gather information on where children ride bikes, scooters, skateboards, in-line skate, and walk. How often are children hurt or killed?Invite local community groups to help on your planning team. They can assist in developing and promoting the program, providing refreshments, and recruiting volunteers. A sample letter of invitation can be printed.
Reduce injuries and deaths to children in your community
Provide safety education to children
Offer information, tools, and resources for children with disabilities and adapted bikes
Involve youth leadership
Obtain and distribute donated helmets to children in need of helmets
Choose a location, date, and times. A parking lot, gymnasium, or playground area that is hard-surfaced and traffic-free works best. Make certain you have necessary permission to use the site.
Recruit volunteers and assign tasks.
Visit our downloads page to download, enlarge, and laminate traffic safety signs and mount onto sturdy structures that you can stand up at different points in your safety course. You may borrow our bike resources and signs, available free of charge to organizations within the state of Indiana. Contact us at 1-317-274-6565 or atkids1st@iu.edu
Review Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Fact Sheets.
Contact potential sponsors to support the event with resources like refreshments, prizes, extra bicycles for use during the event, or publicity.
Contact local emergency medical services to be present at the event for support or involve someone with first aid/CPR certification.
Step #3: 2 months before/ahead of your Racing for Safety course, do the following:
Publish information about the bike and pedestrian safety course in your community through local newspapers, newsletters, meetings, schools, churches, etc.
Begin preparing press and media information.
Display posters about the bike and pedestrian safety course in your community.
Invite a local pediatrician to serve as a spokesman for the event
Step #4: 1 month before/ahead of your Racing for Safety course, do the following:
Confirm location and finalize details for course.
Contact radio, television, and newspapers for public service announcement support or coverage of course.
Complete and distribute press packet to media.
Secure all necessary supplies for the safety course.
Meet with volunteers to review their responsibilities for staffing the bike and pedestrian safety course.
