Safety Town

Safety Town is a program for children that teaches safety lessons about fire, pedestrians/traffic, water, guns, and poisons/drugs. It is also the name given to a replica town created to instruct children about safety measures.

The Safety Town program was founded by Officer Frend Boals in Mansfield, Ohio in 1937 after a child was struck and killed by a car on his way to school. The "National Safety Town Center" was founded in 1964 by Dorothy Chlad in Cleveland, Ohio.[1][2]

References
  1. "Governor proclaims national safety town week". The Aberdeen Times. 13 September 1989. p. 1. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. Hummel, Jim (27 July 1991). "A bigger Safety Town is back". Providence Journal. p. Z1. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
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