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Safe Routes to School - Potential Partnering Organizations
| Partnering Organization |
Ways they can help |
| School, teachers, administrators |
Provide a meeting place (classroom)
Provide resources (copy and fax machines)
May assist with school publicity
May provide motivation
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| Local health department |
May be a good source of information and support
May adopt the project or help you develop your program |
| Police department |
Identify areas of loitering, high crime, trouble traffic spots, etc.
Present a seminar on traffic and pedestrian safety
Provide traffic and pedestrian booklets for parents and children
Help develop a crime watch program in your area
Help control traffic
Set up crossing guards during the commute to and from school
Enforce traffic laws in your community
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Local transportation department, traffic engineering division, department of public works
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Resource for transportation statistics
Responsible for improving the safety features and walking/bicycling routes (such as sidewalks) to and from schools
Provide funding
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| Local and state politicians |
Provide support
Develop supportive policies or legislation
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| Oregon SAFE KIDS Coalition |
Recruit volunteers to walk through neighborhoods with a walkability checklist and report results
Help create "safe routes to school" using results from walkability checklists
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| Pedestrian and Bicycle Advocacy Groups |
Provide materials and resources to assess safety of area walking and biking routes to school
Recruit volunteers to walk through neighborhoods with a walkability checklist and report results
Provide assistance in using results of walkability checklist to create plans to improve the safety of school walking and biking routes
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| PTAs |
Recruit neighbors in surrounding school boundary areas to help conduct walkability checklists and plan safe routes to school for the neighborhood |
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