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New Training Video and Website for New Jersey Crossing Guards
Announcing the release of Crosswalk Heroes: Techniques and Tactics for Crossing Guards, the new training video for New Jersey Crossing Guards [lightbox link="http://www.njcrossingguards.org/?page_id=38" thumb="http://www.saferoutesnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Crossing-Guard-video-image-300x239.png" width="300" align="left" title="Crossing Guard video image" frame="true" icon="image"] The New Jersey SRTS Resource Center has released a new training video [...]
Community Partners Join Forces for Safer Walking in Elizabethport
How do you maximize a small pot of funding from a micro-grant and turn it into a larger project with a bigger product? You build partnerships and tap into programs that offer technical assistance at no cost to the community. That’s what Groundwork Elizabeth and Brand New Day,Inc., accomplished as [...]
ShapingNJ Grant Funding Opportunity
The New Jersey Department of Health is accepting proposals for their ShapingNJ Healthy Community Grant cycle -- Promoting Systems, Policy and Environmental Change for Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention at the Local Level. Shaping NJ is the state partnership for nutrition, physical activity and obesity prevention with a goal of preventing obesity [...]
August 27 Webinar – Don’t let your guard down: Strategies to keep your school crossing guard program healthy and strong
August 27th Webinar Don’t let your guard down: Strategies to keep your school crossing guard program healthy and strong They’re there for us in the heat and the cold, in the rain and the snow. There’s even a National Crossing Guard Appreciation Day. The presence of a crossing [...]
May Walk and Bike to School Week included celebrating this year’s NJ Safe Routes to School Recognition Program Winners!
May 19-23 was declared Walk and Bike to School Week in New Jersey by Governor Chris Christie through a proclamation passed last month. The week was busy across the state with Walk and Bike to School events, bicycle rodeos and recognition ceremonies! The Transportation Management Association Keep Middlesex Moving held [...]
Governor Christie Endorses Walk and Bike to School Week, May 19-23, 2014 – Encourage your school district to pass a proclamation of Walk and Bike Week!
Walk and Bike to School Week will be celebrated this year from May 19-23, 2014. Governor Chris Christie signed a proclamation encouraging state and local governments and school districts to promote active and healthy lifestyles by walking and bicycling to school. Please encourage your school districts to promote Walk and [...]