Safe Routes to School (SR2S) is a popular program spreading across the U.S. and Canada designed to increase the number of children walking and biking to school while reducing traffic. Using the 4 E’s – education, encouragement, enforcement and engineering – Safe Routes to School addresses health and safety issues for children while improving the overall environment for everyone.

A Safe Routes to School training workshop will join school officials, transportation professionals, law enforcement officers, advocates and parents at a one (or two) day workshop that provides a clear blueprint for how to develop a successful SR2S program for your community. The workshops are interactive and focus on creating and sustaining local SR2S programs. Each workshop attendee will receive the NHTSA “Safe Routes to School” guidebook and will participate in exercises ranging from event planning and classroom education to identifying barriers to walking and bicycling and creating Safe Streets.

The workshops are taught by Wendi Kallins and David Parisi, PE.

Wendi Kallins is a national leader in the Safe Routes to Schools movement. She is the founder and Program Director for the award winning, suburban national model SR2S program in Marin County, California, and authored the NHTSA “Safe Routes to School” guidebook.

David Parisi is a professional engineer who has developed traffic calming programs for over 100 schools and recently created “Transportation Tools for Improving Children’s Health and Safety”, a guide of solutions to common school-related issues. He is the consulting traffic and civil engineer for the Marin County SR2S program.

For further information, please contact:
Wendi Kallins
Ph: (415) 488-4101
wendi@marinbike.org