Health & Fitness
Safety Town: Children's Safety and Preparedness Program
Safety Town is a comprehensive safety education program offered every summer that teaches awareness and accident prevention skills to Greenwich children entering kindergarten in the fall.
Safety Town is a comprehensive fun and interactive safety education program offered every summer that teaches awareness and accident prevention skills to Greenwich children entering kindergarten in the fall.
The indoor classroom setting of Safety Town is scaled down to a ‘kid-size’ layout to help the kids have a feel for real life situations. The American Red Cross and a wide range of volunteer instructors run the Safety Town program. Teachers, police officers, firefighters, EMS and other working professionals provide guidance for the students, offering real life experience and knowledge for the children.
Students of Safety Town will be fitted with their own bike safety helmet that they will use through out the week, and then take home to keep. The children will be using their bike safety helmet while riding pedal cars through the kid-sized Safety Town complete with buildings, crosswalks, sidewalks, and street markings. They will also have the opportunity to tour an ambulance, fire truck and school bus.
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Location and Times:
Safety Town 2013 will take place at The East Greenwich Civic Center in Old Greenwich. Classes are Monday through Friday on the weeks of June 10-14th and June 17-21st, sessions are 2 ½ hours long and run mornings and afternoons.
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Registration is open to all, but space is limited. For more information or to register your child for Safety Town 2013, please visit the American Red Cross’ Children's Safety and Preparedness Programs site and download the Safety Town Application.For any additional information or questions please email outreachgny@redcross.org.
About the American Red Cross: The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org or join our blog at http://blog.redcross.org.
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