Walking School Bus Guide, Ottawa Student Transportation Authority
This guide from the Ottawa Student Transportation authority outlines how to set up a walking school bus in your community.
Cannabis Talk Kit: Know How to Talk With Your Teen
This guide from Drug Free Kids Canada provides practical tools and tips for talking to teens about cannabis.
Canada's Favourite Crossing Guard
This annual contest celebrates Canada’s exceptional crossing guards, as nominated by their school communities.
Canadian Youth Road Safety Council
The Canadian Youth Road Safety Council engages and integrates youth voices and expertise into Parachute’s youth road safety programs. Our youth council is made up of 10 highly motivated and passionate young people, aged 15-24, from across Canada. They play a key role in making sure that Parachute’s youth road safety programs are designed by […]
Canadian Youth Road Safety Week
Formerly known as National Teen Driver Safety Week, this awareness week focused on youth and road safety runs annually during the third full week of October.
Observational counts
Do this exercise to collect information about travel mode – how children get to school whether by walking, wheeling or as passengers in a vehicle – during morning drop-off time. Collecting this information will help you know if any of your interventions have helped to increase the number of children who use active forms of […]
Promote your ERS project
Awareness-raising campaigns can educate students, parents and the community about your ERS project. Campaigns can also be used to promote sustainable modes of transport and support physical infrastructure changes. Think about using one of these to launch your ERS project at your school. We’ve developed a suite of illustrations that can be used on posters or […]
Infographics
Safe Mobility infographic series Road safety measures have a broad impact on urban communities, with a wide range of benefits ranging from environmental to health. Parachute has created these infographics to explore the intersections among equity, health and wellbeing and the environment and their connections to road safety. We encourage our road safety partners to […]
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.