Who?
• Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians and Instructors
• Nurses and other Healthcare Providers
• Emergency Medical Service Providers
• Law Enforcement
• Anyone with an interest in occupant protection
What?
• The Midwest Regional Child Passenger Safety Conference is designed to provide the most current information from local, regional and national traffic safety experts in promoting safe travel of children. Participants will be able to select sessions that present information on child passenger safety related to Emergency Medical Services, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Child Care, technology advances in car seat and vehicle manufacturing and creating and sustaining community partners in CPS in rural and urban settings. Sessions will focus on:
- History of Child Passenger Safety
- 4 Steps of Child Passenger Safety
- Safe Travel for Preemies/ICN/LBW
- Ambulance/Emergency Transport
- School Bus Transport
- Technical Updates
- Coalition Building
- Collaboration
- Program Evaluation
- Fact or Fiction
- Rural Challenges: Risky Business
- Advocacy
- Driver Behavior Risks
- Laws Impacting Behaviors
- Strategies to Enforce Occupant Protection Laws
When?
• May 10-12, 2011
Where?
• Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, 11009 South Hornet, Hutchinson, KS
For directions to KLETC click here
Why?
• Increase understanding and competencies of child passenger safety
• CEUs
Registration will be up soon!