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Bicycle Safety Programs

Neighborhood Pride

Neighborhood Pride is a team effort by Columbus city departments, neighborhood groups, individual citizens, businesses and other partners to make our neighborhoods safer and cleaner.  For one week, an intense delivery of city services are offered. This includes cleaning alleys, mowing high grass in the public right-of-way and in the neighborhood recreational areas, replacing burned out street light bulbs, evaluating exterior housing for code compliance, offering block watch and fire prevention outreach and improving the safety practices of children. 

Bicycle safety and the proper use of a helmet are a major part of teaching neighborhood children the importance of safety practices through education, information, interactive activities, incentives and peer reinforcement.  Bicycle helmets are fitted and distributed to each elementary student and the classroom education utilizes components of the international Think First for Kids curricula. The bicycle helmets are provided by the Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Columbus and Central Ohio ThinkFirst and fitted properly by members of Safe Kids Central Ohio.

A safety poster contest is initiated in grades 3 to 5 and the winner from each grade is awarded a brand new bicycle donated by Safe Kids Central Ohio. The posters are then transformed into injury prevention coloring books and redistributed to each student in the school. The injury prevention coloring books are created and distributed by The Ohio State University Medical Center, Trauma Program.

The final day of the weeklong activities includes a bicycle safety festival where students can practice the safety tips they have learned. A few of the stations include Columbus Parks & Recreation’s bicycle course for each student to safely ride through on a bike, Columbus Division of Fire’s Smoke House which teaches them what to do in case of a fire, Columbus Division of Police are there reminding the students to be aware of their surroundings, stranger danger and safely crossing the streets.

 

 

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