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Step right up for National Walk to School Day – October 2, 2019! Registration is now open. Join the movement that inspires the entire community to come together and promote health and safer routes for students to walk and bike to school. While October 2 is our official focus day in 2019, communities are welcome to celebrate any day in October that best fits their schedules.
Across the U.S. communities celebrated Walk to School Day in 2018. Parents, school and local officials, and public health and transportation representatives joined together to make it the largest Walk to School Day event in its 22-year history.
**NEW THIS YEAR**
Find out how your event can be a powerful catalyst for improving safety for people walking and bicycling throughout your community Check out a new webinar series designed for Walk to School Day event organizers.
Archived videos of all webinars are available here.
The National Center for Safe Routes to School (National Center) is committed to empowering communities to make walking and bicycling to school a safe, appealing, preferred choice for families. The National Center facilitates communities in becoming places for safe walking and bicycling for everyone starting with children and the trip to school. In 2016, we launched the initiative “Vision Zero for Youth,” linking Walk to School Day with communities and elected officials making a commitment to promote safe walking and bicycling and to eliminate fatal and serious traffic crashes.
The National Center is applying what’s been learned during our 10 years of supporting and documenting the many accomplishments of the SRTS program as a framework for advancing the larger goals of Vision Zero/Road to Zero. We promote safe walking and biking by:
Using Safe Routes to School as a framework for “Vision Zero for Youth.”
Engaging local elected officials and communities in building support for Vision Zero starting with youth.
Focusing on speed reduction starting in places where children and youth travel.
Using Walk to School Day and Bike to School Day to increase local leader commitment and visibility for traffic safety.
Expanding student travel data collection to examine the relationship between student and parent walking and biking frequency.
National Center for Safe Routes to School
730 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Suite 300
Campus Box 3430
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3430
866-610-SRTS (610-7787)
info@walkbiketoschool.org
www.walkbiketoschool.org
Materials available
Contact: Nancy Pullen-Seufert
Source: 2019 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.