Education

A fun filled book filled with colorful graphics and pedestrain safety messages aimed at children.

Walk to School Colorado Tool Kit - Tips for producing a successful Walk to School Day event. Contents include: Walk to School Day, Walk to School Programs, Media, Walkability Checklist, Bikeability Checklist, Walk to School Survey, Walk to School Evaluation, Walk to School Colorado Graphic, Walk to School Initiatives Booklet.

The National Center maintains a number of resources available in Spanish. These include the following:

This curriculum was created for Massachusetts teachers who want to help children learn about the connections between walking, health, and environmental quality, whether or not their school is operating a walk-to-school program.

This guide outlines the benefits of starting a walking school bus as well as points to consider before launching it. Two general ways to conduct a walking school bus are described: 1) starting simple with a small group of friends or neighbors or (2) creating a more structured program to reach more children. The benefits, considerations and variations of each are detailed so that organizers can choose the approach that matches local needs.

This Bulletin describes the offense of kidnaping of juveniles, using 1997 National Incidence-Based Reporting System data. Among other significant findings, the analysis reveals that such abductions are relatively uncommon, that there are three distinct kinds of perpetrators, and that the rate of juvenile kidnaping peaks in the afternoon.

Personal Safety for Children: A Guide for Parents provides information for parents about how to talk to children about safety, advice to parents about how to keep children safe, and tips to children about how they can protect themselves. The guide presents statistics about the risks of abduction and contains a list of resources, with phone numbers to call in an emergency and URL's of Web sites that can provide additional information. Available in English and Spanish in both PDF and HTML formats.

These guidelines detail the recommendations of National Center for Missing and Expoited Children's Education Standards Task Force for communities when choosing programs to teach personal safety to children. 20 pp.