Transcript Cray_Rebecca_PHAPSummerSeminar.pptx

Building Safe Routes to School Capacity
with Pedestrian Education
Rebecca Cray
Public Health Associate
Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2015 PHAP Class Summer Seminar
May 17, 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
Overview
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Background & Public Health Significance
Methods
 Key Needs & Challenges
 Program Products
 School Implementation
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Results & Process Evaluation
Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus Public Health
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Safe Routes to School
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Safe Routes in Columbus City Schools
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Public Health Significance
Columbus City Schools Students – Obese or Overweight
5th Grade
Kindergarten
28%
47%
Columbus City Schools Wellness Initiative Strategic Vision Plan, June 2011
Walking and biking to school associated with stable or
decreased BMI
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But simultaneously increases exposure to motor vehicle traffic
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Child Pedestrian Injury & Fatalities
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Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among
young children
 20% of crashes involve pedestrian-related fatalities
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Why are children more at risk?
 Perception & judgment
 Understanding traffic
 Skills practice
Pedestrian Education in Schools
When Principals Were Asked About Pedestrian Education:
Currently Implementing
Would Like to Implement
16%
56%
Columbus City Schools District-Wide Travel Plan, February 2015
Perceptions of Personal
Safety & Crime
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“Even if we lived in the
neighborhood of our
school, crime, stray dogs,
and a lack of safe sidewalks
would still keep her from
walking.”
In Columbus Safe Routes to School
Focus Schools:
 74% of parents expressed ‘fear of crime
and violence’ as a barrier to letting their
child walk or bike to school
 Crime and violence also most commonly
cited barrier amongst principals
Columbus Safe Routes to School District-Wide Travel Plan Health Impact Assessment, May 2015
Methods: Needs & Challenges
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Identify Needs
 Literature review – What makes pedestrian education effective?
 Survey results & meetings – What are principals and parents
concerned about?
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Predict Challenges
 School scheduling & autonomy – How can curriculum be as logistically
flexible as possible?
 Variable school & principal priorities – How can a flexible curriculum
still address a variety of skill and safety issues at all age levels?
Methods: “Final” Program Products
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2 Lesson Plans
 Kindergarten – 2nd Grade
• “Clifford Takes a Walk”
 3rd Grade – 8th Grade
• Built Environment Prezi
“Clifford Takes a Walk”
Book created for International Walk to School Day by SafeKids
International and FedEx
Pedestrian Safety in the Built Environment Prezi
Pedestrian Safety in the Built Environment Prezi
Pedestrian Safety in the Built Environment Prezi
Pedestrian Safety in the Built Environment Prezi
Methods: Implementation
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Extensive Outreach
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Efficient Planning
 Face-to-face meetings vs. email
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Follow-up
 Follow-up
• Follow-up!
Pedestrian Education Program Results
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January – March 2016
1,414 students
 Grades K-6
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4 Elementary Schools
 Classroom instruction
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1 Middle School
 Assembly format
Evaluation & Lessons Learned
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Barriers
 School schedules
 Administrator and staff
limitations
 Communications capacity
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Facilitators
 Flexible lesson plans
 Finding Safe Routes
champions
 Communications capacity
Questions?
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Rebecca Cray
[email protected]
For more information, please contact CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
4770 Buford Highway NE, Mailstop E-70, Atlanta, GA 30341
Telephone: 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth
The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support