Road SMARTS 4 kids

Media Kit

About the RoadSMARTS4Kids Program

In response to public health initiatives that made in-person programming impossible, the OSC launched a new RoadSMARTS4Kids digital educational resources webpage for kids in early April 2021. This virtual platform provides access to much of the pedestrian and cycling safety programming once taught in-person, through videos, activities, e-learning courses and downloadable lesson plans for teachers.

The RoadSMARTS4Kids (RS4K) library of resources provides digital, “turn-key” educational resources for use by teachers, educators and parents. RS4K makes learning important road safety concepts, skills and awareness fun and engaging for elementary age children, while meeting curriculum requirements.

These resources are free, easy to use and cover a variety of age-appropriate road safety teachings.

 

The RS4K library offers Educators:

  • The RoadSMARTS E-cademy – A suite of fun, educational, interactive and “gamified” e-learning courses and quizzes
  • Downloadable Lesson Plans & Presentations
  • Videos
  • Worksheets, Activities & Challenges

Seventeen children ages 0 to 14 years were killed in pedestrian incidents in Canada in 2020. On average, there are around 1,000 child pedestrians struck each year.

Parachute.ca, 2022

About the Ottawa Safety Council

Founded as a not-for-profit, non-government organization in 1957, the Ottawa Safety Council is a leader in safety education. Originally offering our Motorcycle Training Program, through which participants can receive their M1 and M2 licenses, we have since expanded to include programming that touches on all aspects of road safety, including the Municipal Adult Crossing Guard program (for the City of Ottawa, since 2002), WalkSafe and CycleSafe programs (since 2002), Bestfit Car Seat Program (2013) and our Walking School Bus Program (For the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority, since 2014). We continually check our environment to identify gaps in safety promotion and seek to meet the need, either through individual effort or with the many health and safety-related organizations throughout Ottawa and Eastern Ontario with whom we cooperate.

In 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, OSC educated over 25,000 students (JK – Grade 6) in the Ottawa area, in both English and French schools across four Boards of Education with our WalkSafe pedestrian safety program.

Children between the ages of 1-14 years have the highest incidence of bicycle injury hospitalization as compared to any other age group and children aged 10-14 years represent the majority of hospitalizations, followed by the 5-9 year age group.

Parachute.ca, 2022

Help Support the Ottawa Safety Council

Donations to the Ottawa Safety Council help us to continue building new programming and creating and delivering awareness campaigns to bring road safety advocacy and awareness to everyone in Ottawa, regardless of how they travel.

Media Inqueries

For interviews, speaking engagements, information and other media-related queries regarding RoadSMARTS4Kids, please contact Jamie Kwong at jamie.kwong@ottawasafetycouncil.ca or 613.238.1513 ext.223

What are people saying about RS4K?

“It is the perfect chance for the older kids to be good examples for the younger kids and help the Leaders.”

Walking School Bus Leader

“It is the perfect chance for the older kids to be good examples for the younger kids and help the Leaders.”

Walking School Bus Leader

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