 Bike Smart! Youth Bicycle Safety
Program coordinates with schools and community organizations
to teach bicycling skills to Santa Cruz County
youth.
The Bike Smart! program has established several health and safety related goals. We encourage you to learn more about our program goals, as well as contact us to find out how you can support our work.
Interested in getting involved? Learn about volunteer opportunities.
News!
Bike Smart! begins work on new Safe Routes to School Grant
Ecology Action has received a two-year Safe Routes to School grant to expand its youth bicycling and walking education and encouragement programs, including: Bike Smart!, Bike to School, Bike n' Hike and and a new program, Walk to School.
As part of the grant work, Bike Smart! will be conducting Bicycle Street Skills Presentations for middle school students, Rodeos for elementary school students, as well as in-depth Bicycle Street Smarts Bicycle Driver trainings, which includes on-road education. According to Saskia Lucas, who runs the Bike Smart! program, "the Safe Routes to School grant will greatly expand the number of students Bike Smart! is able to train in safe and responsible bicycling habits. We are really honored and excited about this opportunity."
This Safe Routes to School grant is federally funded and administered through the California Office of Traffic Safety. Ecology Action will be collaborating on the grant with the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency.
Program Goals:
- Reduce the collision rates of young bicyclists
- Increase safe, legal bicycling practices among youth
- Increase use and proper fit of bicycle helmets
- Advocate and empower youth to use bicycles for transportation
- Promote exercise and healthy life-styles through bicycling
- Educate youth to Share the Road as bicyclists and future motorists
- Inform participants of local bicycling resources: bicycle routes, organizations and events
- Generate interest in safe, recreational bicycling
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