11.2 Research Existing Car Seat Laws

Whether you’re in the process of forming your team, or you’ve already formed your team, you’ll need to research existing car seat laws—both tribal laws and state laws. To avoid reinventing the wheel, it would be wise to begin your research by determining if your...
Module 4: Collect Your Own Child Passenger Safety Data

Module 4: Collect Your Own Child Passenger Safety Data

The best sources of information are those you collect locally in your own community. You can do this two ways: Quantitative analysis uses surveys and other tools that track numbers and help you determine percentages. Qualitative analysis provides a closer look at...

11.13 Develop Other Policy and Practice Interventions

In this module, we covered how to develop or update policies—like passenger restraint laws. We’ve also discussed how to partner with law enforcement to improve practices—like enforcing passenger restraint laws and promoting child passenger safety. In this section we’d...

8.5 Provide Education to Specific Groups in Your Community

This section is designed to help you engage different sub-groups, such as non-parent drivers, elders, or teachers,  in child passenger safety. If you have a department in your organization or community trying to increase knowledge and involvement from audiences other...

1.5 Hold Regular Meetings with Your Coalition

Regular meetings are essential to keeping your coalition strong. Here are some ideas on how to run successful meetings: Find a time that works for everyone. Although this may be nearly impossible, we’ve found that Fridays during lunch or after 5 p.m. work best. The...