In addition to the materials listed below, see Campaign Safe & Sober Program Planners 19 and 20 for occupant protection materials (see "Previous Planners" section on page 18).

Program Materials

Child Passenger Safety Training Programs is a brochure that explains the importance of professional training and how to enroll in a NHTSA certification course or other professional program. (December 1998, DOT HS 808 813, Item #1P1050)

Guideline for the Safe Transportation of Pre-School Age Children in School Buses is a guideline to help school and transportation officials develop and implement policies and procedures for the use of Child Safety Restraint Systems (CSRS). This publication can be ordered or printed from the NHTSA Web site: www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/buses/Guide1999/prekfinal.htm .

School Bus Safety: Safe Passage for America's Children provides a brief history of NHTSA's school bus safety program. It includes behavioral programs and vehicle regulations and discusses current projects including the research underway on school bus occupant protection. (August 1998, DOT HS 808 755, Item #6P0126)

Seat Belts and African Americans and Seat Belts and Hispanics are two fact sheets that address seat belt use and non-use within these communities. They include statistics (general and population-specific), minority organizational support for seat belt laws, and facts about enforcement. (African Americans: DOT HS X0635, Item #1P1127) (Hispanics: DOT HS X0634, Item #1P1126)

Third Report to Congress–The Presidential Initiative For Increasing Seat Belt Use Nationwide reports on the status of the "Buckle Up America" campaign, which has been developed to implement the President's seat belt initiative. (January 2000, DOT HS 808 879, Item #1P1131)

Standard Enforcement Saves Lives: The Case for Strong Seat Belt Laws covers the basic facts on standard enforcement seat belt laws, how these laws save lives, success stories from the U.S. and other countries, a model law, and ideas on how to generate support for public policies in your state. (January 1999, DOT HS 808 846, Item #4P1140)

Consumer Materials
A Parent's Guide to Booster Seats is a brochure designed to encourage parents to use a booster seat once a child has outgrown a child safety seat. It highlights the different kinds of booster seats, which kind each child should use and why, and how to buy one. (July 1998, DOT HS 808 671, Item #1P1062)




Child Transportation Safety Tips , included in this Program Planner, is a folio of reproducible black-and-white sheets on a variety of child transportation safety topics. Topics include child safety seats, booster seats, pedestrian issues, bicycle safety, school bus safety, safety seat recalls, and the "Quick Safety Seat Checkup." (Revised December 1998, DOT HS 808 301, Item #1P1045)