For Young Drivers, By Young Drivers
This project partnered with Canadian youth to understand attitudes and perceptions that affect safe driving behaviours in young drivers and then developed more effective ways to address the issue of road fatalities and injuries among youth.
Youth Road Safety
Parachute’s youth road safety initiatives have expanded into year-round programming to partner with young leaders as key stakeholders in road safety.
Youth as Changemakers Award
The Youth as Changemakers Award, sponsored by Desjardins Insurance and the Honda Canada Foundation, celebrates three outstanding young leaders or groups of young leaders from across Canada who are making a real difference in their communities. These changemakers are passionate about creating safer streets for everyone and are turning their ideas into action through advocacy, […]
Parachute Youth Ambassadors projects 2024-26
Parachute’s Youth Ambassador projects highlight the commitment of young leaders to enhance road safety in Canadian communities. Highlights from the 2025-26 Ambassador projects In 2025-26, Parachute has awarded grants of $1,000, plus our support and mentoring, for 15 Ambassador projects. Here are some examples. Cannabis impaired driving education in schools (Trout River, N.L.) Collaborating with students, school […]
Snap for Change
Parachute wants to hear from you about how our roads can be safer for everyone. In the Snap for Change initiative, share your ideas for improving road safety in your community to receive a $100 gift card!
Snap for Change map
Many people from across Canada have shared road safety issues in their neighbourhood and advocated to make their community safer for all. This map highlights the issues raised, the solutions proposed and the outcomes achieved through advocacy to community leaders through Parachute’s Snap for Change initiative, launched in 2024. To explore submissions, select a map […]
Elementary Road Safety
This Parachute program supports and empowers school communities to explore, adapt and implement measures that will improve their local road safety.
Your ERS leadership team
A variety of stakeholders must be involved to make your Elementary Road Safety (ERS) project a success. The lead stakeholder is typically a school committee driving the idea of change, together with local government, planners and enforcement representatives who have the power to implement change. Ideally, each ERS leadership team should leverage an existing committee […]
The ERS process
Follow this process to implement Elementary Road Safety at your school community. To support your project, we’ve created free downloadable resources, in addition to the information you’ll find on this website: These include: The full program is a two- to three-year investment in order to allow time for research, consultation, work with local officials, implementation […]
Site audit
Use this tool to collect information about the physical features of each road that borders the school. This information will help you decide what new features to add to the area to improve safety for children travelling to and from school. When to use this tool How to complete your site audit Example of an […]