Program Resources:

• Our list of helmet program resources has sources of helmet program info and materials, with an indication of what they can do for you. Free pamphlets, posters, videos, bookmarks.

• Helmet Factsheet.

• Funding sources.

• Sources of inexpensive helmets.

• Videos for helmet campaigns. Sources for them, including three that are free!

• Public Service Announcements on helmet safety.

• Child bike safety talk

• Workshop on Helmets.

• Developing A Children's Bicycle Helmet Safety Program: A Guide for Local Communities.

• A manual for helmet promotion programs included on the CD in the Toolkit (not on paper--it's too long!). Originally written by John Williams and the folks at Adventure Cycling, kept up to date here at BHSI.

• Promoting helmets in poor neighborhoods.

Basic Info

• IIHS Fatality Facts: Bicycles

• A simple page on helmets.

• Frequently Asked Questions about helmets.

• Costs of Head Injuries

• Using stickers on helmets.

• A warning: no helmets on playground equipment or climbing trees!.

• Kids speak out on helmets.

• US CPSC: Estimated Head Injuries for Selected Sports

• Summaries of medical journal articles.

• A summary of our Standards page.

• The helmets on sale this year.

• Our review of the most recent Consumer Reports helmet article.

• A chart and explanation of Mandatory Helmet Laws.

Here is a pdf with all of the above.

Pamphlets - Duplicating Masters

• A Consumers Guide to Bicycle Helmets.

• A Bicycle Helmet for My Child.

• How to Fit a Bicycle Helmet.

• Skateboard Helmets.

• Teaching Your Child to Ride a Bicycle.

• How children see traffic situations.

• NHTSA pamphlet: Prevent Bicycle Crashes.

• TransMadison's flyer with photos on How to Fit a Helmet.

Other Handouts

• Bookmark sample from the Protective Headgear Manufacturers Association.

• Our bookmarks to print out and cut.

• Getting your kids to wear bike helmets.

• Sources of helmet materials in Spanish

• Sample pamphlets from the Department of Transportation.

• CPSC pamphlet: Which Helmet for Which Activity?

• A wrod gmae taht is a cahllnege to raed.

• Bicycle Helmet Tongue Twisters.

• A maze and a connect-the-numbers with One Smart Cat.

• A coloring page for pre-schoolers.

• A four page coloring book.

CD

Our CD includes a full copy of our entire Web site and the WABA Safety Site. Pop it in your machine and any browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox will use it as if you were connected to our Web site. You don't have to be connected to the Internet. Links to anything on our site work as they would on the Web, but may be faster.

If you need the Toolkit, just email us at info@helmets.org. Be sure to give us a postal mailing address!

We are usually quick to get the Toolkit out to you. If you can't wait for snail mail, here is the entire Word file we print out to send to you. Add the pamphlet files above and you have it all!

If your system will not accept the Word file, email us and we will send it to you attached to a return email.

This page was last revised on: November 5, 2008.

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