Safety Town – Santa Clarita, which helps young children learn important safety concepts and skills, is vying for a $25,000 grant from State Farm Insurance and needs your votes through Aug. 24.
Sponsored by the nonprofit Santa Clarita Optimist Foundation, Safety Town is a top finalist for the grant.
Grant winners are decided based solely on the number of daily community votes through Friday, Aug. 24.
The grant would “go a long way toward offering the program to more children and their families,” said Susan Russell, Safety Town executive director in a statement.
There are two ways to vote:
1. Visit NeighborhoodAssist.com/entry/2011135.
2. Forward the above link to 10 people with a short personal message asking them to vote, too.
Safety Town is a miniature city built to the scale of a small child that is assembled within a secured playground, with a traffic light, street and stop signs, striped walkways, crosswalks and streets.
Children learn under the guidance of California-credentialed teachers and youth volunteers how to safely cross the street, how to obey traffic signals while walking and while driving miniature cars, complete with safety belts, and to evaluate “safe from “unsafe” situations.
Videos, craft projects, songs, games and role-play reinforce the safe conduct rules the children have learned.
For more information about Safety Town, click here.
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In Frisco, TX, a permanent Safety Town is run by the Frisco Fire Department. Each building is sponsored by various businesses. Perhaps a model like this would keep Safety Town open year round in Santa Clarita.
http://www.friscofiresafetytown.com/