THE 1ST SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL NATIONAL CONFERENCE IS SOLD OUT 
REGISTRATION CLOSED — NO ON-SITE REGISTRATION

November 5-7, 2007

The Dearborn Inn  u  Dearborn, MI

The conference will be held at the historic Dearborn Inn in Dearborn, Michigan, with the opening reception/program at the internationally renowned Henry Ford Museum. The Michigan Fitness Foundation is honored to host this inaugural event.

Safe Routes to School is an international movement whose goal is to make it safe, convenient and fun for children to bicycle and walk to school everyday. This improves community and personal health, benefits the environment, increases safety and helps to decrease traffic and congestion around schools. The most successful programs incorporate the five E’s: education, encouragement, engineering, enforcement and evaluation.

Safe Routes to School works to reverse the decline in children walking and biking to school. In 1969, approximately 50 percent of children walked or biked to school. Today, fewer than 15 percent of schoolchildren walk or bike to school. As a result, kids today are less active, less independent and less healthy. As much as 20 to 30 percent of morning traffic is generated by parents driving their children to schools. Traffic-related crashes are the number one cause of death and major injury for U.S. children ages one to 17.

For more information about Safe Routes to School:

Visit the National Center for Safe Routes to School website
Visit the Safe Routes to School National Partnership website

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Everyone interested in the health and safety of children should attend. The conference will address the unique needs of those in urban, suburban and rural settings and will be of interest to those working in:

• Education: State and local school administrators, teachers, students, school boards and parents

• Transportation: State and local departments of transportation

• Enforcement: Police and safety departments

• Design: City and design engineers, landscape designers, developers

• Health: State and local public health departments, health systems

• Community/advocacy: Neighborhood associations, trails groups, bicycle groups, disability advocates, youth advocates

• Government: Elected and appointed officials and staff from local, state and federal governments

• Safe Routes to School Practitioners: From those just getting started to those well underway

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• Travel-ease start time (Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. EST) and end time (Nov. 7 at 12 p.m. EST)

• Extraordinary opening reception/program at the Henry Ford Museum

• Interactive and mobile workshops

• Inspiring keynote addresses    ► Download keynote speaker bios

• Networking opportunities

• The SRTS National Partnership’s annual meeting

WORKSHOPS

Workshop topics include:

Diane Drago, Conference Coordinator
Diversified Management Services
517-663-5147 or DMSdiane@concentric.net