Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia’s Traffic Injury Prevention Institute has been awarded a $963,000 grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to continue its education and training programs in the use of safety belts, child safety seats, and safer teen driving.
The institute was established 20 years ago to help reduce traffic-related injuries and fatalities statewide. The grant will allow the institute to enhance its educational impact in the areas of passenger safety, young driver education and community programming.
Educational programs such as the Child Passenger Safety Technician certification course and Parents Reducing Incidents of Driver Error course will be conducted onsite at the institute’s facilities in Conyers. Outreach education will be delivered by regional coordinators and certified volunteers across Georgia through such community events as Injury Prevention Caravans and Traffic Enforcement Networks. A resource center will be the primary statewide source for print and electronic injury prevention resources for consumers, educators and other professionals.
“This program is the primary resource in the state for public information and professional training on the use of safety belts and child safety seats,” according to Don Bower, principal investigator on the grant and a professor of child and family development in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
For more information on the Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute, please visit: http://www.ridesafegeorgia.org.
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