Statewide "Safe Routes To School" training workshop April 25th

The Mid-America Regional Council and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services have teamed up to host a Safe Routes To School (SR2S) training workshop April 25. This is your opportunity to join others from around the region to learn about Safe Routes To School, a growing movement to improve opportunities for youth travel to school by bike or on foot. The renewed interest in non-motorized travel is the result of increased concern over student health, including childhood obesity and diabetes, dwindling budgets to transport students by bus, and concern about traffic safety for children walking or bicycling to school.

This is a one-day workshop that provides a clear blueprint for how to create a SR2S program in your community. Some of the topics that will be covered in the hands-on program include encouragement and education approaches, enforcement and engineering approaches, and how to map routes to schools in your community using the interactive Safe Streets Toolkit.

Our presenters are Wendi Kallins, Marin County Bicycle Coalition, author of the National Highway Traffic Safety Association Safe Routes to School guide and David Parisi, PE, who has 17 years experience in multimodal corridor design and recently developed a toolbox of solutions to common school-related issues titled Transportation Tools for Improving Children's Health and Safety. He will present this plus other state-of-the-art developments related to SR2S at several upcoming national conferences this year. Kallins and Parisi will present the four-pronged approach that SR2S uses: engineering, encouragement, education, and enforcement.

As part of the workshop, participants will receive a guidebook and a packet of SR2S information, including the names of those who participate locally and from across the state.

The SR2S workshop will be held Friday, April 25, from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM at the Doubletree Hotel, 1301 Wyandotte, in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Parking is provided beneath the hotel. Training costs $55 and includes lunch, a guidebook and other program materials.

Space is Limited!

To register call Beverly Werden at 816/474-4240 ext. 234, fax to 816/421-7758 or e-mail gti@marc.org.

[Organizers have indicated that videotapes of the workshop may be available for those who cannot attend the session in person.]

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