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What can I do in my school or neighborhood?



PARENTS/GUARDIANS

  • Encourage your kids to develop and sustain active, healthy lifestyles.
  • Understand and support the Safe Routes to School Program in your School.
  • Make the Safe Routes to School Program the subject of a PTA, church, neighborhood watch or civic meeting.
  • Participate in Walk to School Day Events.
  • Fill out the surveys and submit to the Safe Routes to School Task Force.
  • Join the Mansfield Safe Routes to School Task Force.
  • Be a good motorist and remember, people are walking or biking when you are driving.
  • Don’t be in such a hurry.
  • Make your neighborhood safer for all who walk/bike in it.
  • Make the Pledge—to make a difference.

 


KIDS

  • Get excited about being active and making your neighborhood a great place to move around.
  • Get out of cars and onto your feet and bikes!
  • Participate in Walk/Bike to School Day events.
  • Be a representative on the Safe Routes to School Task Force.
  • Learn and practice pedestrian and bicycle safety.
  • Report concerns to your principal, teachers, parents, and/or the Safe Routes to School Task Force.

 


TEACHERS/PRINCIPALS

  • Your school becomes a community partner in the effort to make our neighborhoods more livable and our youth safer and healthier.
  • By getting involved, you can enable and encourage young people to develop a more healthy lifestyle.

 

 


OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS

  • Understand and support the Safe Routes to School program.
  • Share your traffic safety concerns.
  • Bring the community’s attention to issue surrounding a safe journey to school.
  • Support education initiatives within the school.
  • Fill out the surveys and submit to the Safe Routes to School Task Force.
  • Join the Safe Routes to School Task Force and be a part of making our community more safer all year long.

 


For more information on how you can be a part of making our community safer, contact the Mansfield Safe Routes to School Task Force.

Mansfield Safe Routes to School Task Force
c/o Mansfield Litter Prevention & Recycling
30 North Diamond Street,
Mansfield, Ohio 44902
PH: 419.755.9699
E-mail: srts@mansfieldcity.com