Neighborhood Safety
Group 2: Be Aware, Look Everywhere!
Our Issue
Our Advocacy PSA
Take Action
- Personal Level: use the #BeAwareLookEVERYWHERE, use social media to spread the word, being self-aware of your surroundings
- City Level: Talk to Mayor Price, ask to put up signs, advocate for more sidewalks or bike lanes, provide information to schools and neighborhoods, start neighborhood patrols
- National Level: Talk to the senator of Texas, Write a letter to the president
- Additional ways: make a commercial on Television or an ad, hang posters, fundraise
What We Learned...
Tevy S. "That you should look both ways before crossing the road to know what is going on around you."
Oscar D. "That neighborhood safety is a big problem in some places and that we should help those places become nicer."
Daniella D. "That drivers and kids should pay more attention to there surroundings so they know what to do."
Victoria R. " That some drivers are careless and need to pay more attention to there surroundings."
Laith S. "That you need to be safe in your neighborhood because you never know who is going to be in your neighborhood."
Karli V. "That the driver should drive more carefully so you will not be in a car crash."
A'kylah M. "That you need to advocate in your everyday life."
Quinn M. "That in some neighborhoods are not very nice and they need help to make them nicer."
A Fantastic Team of 10 (pictured above)
Resources
- CDC Walk This Way: Taking Steps Toward Pedestrian Safety
- CDC Injury Prevention and Control: Pedestrian Safety
- Neighborhood Traffic Safety - It's No Accident! Written by Tom Everson- Sheriff Magazine, May/June 2009
- Child Pedestrian Injuries on Residential Streets: Implications for Traffic Engineering, Written by Peter Jacobsen - ITE Journal on the Web, February 2000