Welcome to Safe Kids Thurston County!  To learn all about us, visit our ABOUT US PAGE.


Let's Talk Child Pedestrian Safety! 
 ​Did You Know?
  • Eighty percent of child pedestrian deaths occur at non-intersection locations.
  • Teens have a death rate twice that of younger children and have accounted for half of all child pedestrian injuries in the past five years.
  • Developmentally, kids cannot judge speed and distance of approaching vehicles until age 10.
Working For ChangeSafe Kids works around the world to teach safe behavior to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities. This effort is all part of Safe Kids Walk This Way.
Safe Kids works with community leaders, parents and the media to spread the message about pedestrian safety, asking everyone to join in doubling efforts to make roads safer for kids. In addition, Safe Kids coalitions and partners around the world work to reach parents, families, caregivers, teachers and community leaders through the following programs and initiatives:
  • International Walk to School Day. In October of every year, millions of children from countries around the world participate in Safe Kids Walk This Way events for International Walk to School Day.  
  • Halloween Activities. On average, children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a vehicle and killed on Halloween than on any other day of the year. Safe Kids works to eliminate these tragedies through education and awareness.
  • Environmental Task Forces. Each year, coalitions around the country create local task forces with the goal of improving pedestrian conditions for children by making long-term environmental improvements. 
  • School Safety Committees. Safe Kids coalitions and FedEx volunteers work with school administrators, parents and other advocates to convene school safety committees. 
  • Decade of Action for Road Safety. Every 90 seconds a young person under the age of 25 is killed on the road. A Decade of Action for Road Safety is a United Nations initiative, which aims to save 5 million lives between 2011 and 2020. Learn how Safe Kids is working with partners around the world to help achieve this important goal.
  • PHOTOVOICE. A photo project to better understand and capture pedestrian safety issues in major cities across the globe.
  • Model School Zone. A pilot project to create safe zones around schools so kids can walk to school in safer environments.
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Take Action
​So let’s work together to do something about these preventable tragedies. When you talk to your children about everything that goes with their return to school, from teachers to friends to homework, please also talk to them about how to walk there safely. This goes double for those of you with teenagers, since they are now the most at-risk youth for pedestrian injuries. Here are some tips and resources to help start the discussion.
Be an advocate for pedestrian safety with our Take Action Toolkit: How to Fix Unsafe School Zones. If you observe speeding or other dangerous behaviors in your school zone, use these tips and resources to help take that one step further to make your neighborhoods safer.
​This toolkit was developed by Safe Kids with support from FedEx, to empower parents and caregivers to make policy or infrastructure changes that improve safety for pedestrians, bike riders and all of us near schools.
Play a Part in Safety
Join in and help teach kids how to be safe while walking. We’ve created some posters that you can use in your community or your child’s school to help spread awareness of common ways kids get hit by cars.

Our next meeting:
Safe Kids Thurston County Coalition
TBD
at
Child Care Action Council, 3729 Griffin Lane SE, Olympia, WA  98501

call 360.786.8907 ext. 107
or email danielle@ccacwa.org  
for more info or to RSVP
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Safe Kids Thurston County
Coordinator:  Danielle King
Phone:  360.786.8907 ext. 107 
danielle@ccacwa.org

Lead Agency:
Child Care Action Council
3729 Griffin Lane SE
Olympia, WA 98501
Toll Free: 800.845.0956
Phone:  360.786.8907
www.ccacwa.org
Safe Kids Worldwide
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 1000 
Washington, DC 20004-1707 
Phone:  202.662.0600 
http://www.safekids.org/
The Child Care Action Council and Thurston County Medic One serve as the lead organizations, lending support to help the group accomplish their goals related to childhood injury prevention in Thurston County.