Programs

Safe Kids Buckle Up (SKBU) – This is a comprehensive child passenger safety program. SKBU stresses the importance of properly installed and used child restraints, as well as safety in and around cars. Best practices have always suggested 4’9” or 8 years as good guidelines for transitioning children from boosters to the adult seatbelt. This is a high area of confusion for caregivers. It is also an excellent opportunity to educate caregivers and medical personnel on the best practices for keeping kids safe in cars and the change in Georgia’s child restraint law.
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Bike Rodeo- Bike Rodeos are designed to provide a safe, fun environment for children to learn about comprehensive bike safety. While at a bike rodeo parents can expect that their child will be exposed to bike safety education, the proper use and fit of a bike helmet, instructions on how to inspect their bike prior to a ride and repairs if necessary, as well as a bike safety course to help demonstrate and practice safe riding skills.
Helmet distribution and education- Helmet education is often taught in conjunction with other bike safety programs. During helmet education children are taught why it is important for them to wear their helmets every time they ride their bikes. During helmet distribution kids are instructed on the proper fit for a bike helmet and how to adjust them to gain that fit.

Safe Kids Georgia’s home safety programming intersects with several of the other offered programs. This includes prevention of fires and burns, as well as safety around water, the home and on playgrounds. The home safety programs are also designed to address prevention of poisonings, including carbon monoxide. For children, preventing falls in the home is extremely important and many of the home safety programs educate parents to reduce the risk of falls. Additionally Safe Kids aims to raise awareness about toy safety and common causes of choking or suffocation through their home safety programming.

Injuries from fires and burns are some of the most painful and severe that children can suffer. Luckily, most of them can be prevented by making a few easy modifications to your home and teaching your family what to do in case of a fire emergency. Safe Kids Coalitions provide a variety of educational and demonstration programs to raise awareness with parents of ways to prevent injuries from fires, burns and scalds.

Walk This Way – Safe Kids Worldwide and program sponsor FedEx Express created Safe Kids Walk This Way to teach safe behavior to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities. Each October, coalitions in more than 100 U.S. cities host events on International Walk to School Day, as part of the program. The program also supports Pedestrian Safety Task Forces which work to create safer communities for child pedestrians by making environmental improvements to high-risk locations. Additionally, Safe Kids conducts annual research to reveal the problems for child pedestrians, raising national awareness around this issue.

Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death among children 1 to 4 years of age. Most children were being supervised by an adult just before they drowned. This is why it is important to use layers of protection. Water Safety is also a chronically under valued issue until a tragedy happens. Safe Kids has partnered with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to raise awareness of drowning and near drowning issues and to give caregivers the tools they need to help keep kids safe.
Kids Don’t Float -This program was started in Homer, Alaska nearly 14 years ago by a member of the Homer coalition. It is comprised of life jacket loaner boards and an educational component for the local schools. In Alaska, the program began with one site and has grown to over 400 life jacket loaner board stations across the state. Many of the coalitions in Georgia have adopted this program and provide life jacket loaner stations near public lakes and rivers.