MS Dept. of Education-Office of Healthy Schools 

• Statewide Crossing Guard Training Program – developed to assist in promoting safe crossing for all children in schools zones. For more information, call the MDE’s Office of Healthy Schools at 601-359-1737.

MS State Dept. of Health - Office of Preventive Health offers presentations and assistance with Safe Routes to School education and encouragement activities like walking school buses and bicycle rodeos.

• Safe Routes STARS: Teams of young energetic performers who teach pedestrian and bicycle safety and promote safe walking and biking as fun, healthy ways to get to and from school safely.
  The program includes:
  ·        Classroom instruction
  ·        Follow-up hands-on skills training with on-foot street crossing lessons and on-bike safety skills lessons 
  ·        School and community-based outreach events to encourage parent participation in safe, active transportation.

•  Walk to School Day Event Planning: MSDH has created a website designed to provide schools and other organization the resources needed to plan and stage a Walk to School Day event. Go to www.healthyms.com/walktoschool and begin planning! 

National Center For Safe Routes to School assists states and communities in enabling and encouraging children to safely walk and bicycle to school. The National Center serves as the information clearinghouse for the federal Safe Routes to School program.

• Webinars: The NCSRTS partners with America Walks to offer a series of SRTS webinars. These free webinars are designed to educate individuals, communities and organizations on topics to assist with successful planning, outreach and implementation efforts. For a list of archived webinars, click here.
• Safe Routes to School Program Evaluation: Data is vital for SRTS programs. The National Center provides resources and tools to help make collecting, summarizing and analyzing data as easy and straightforward as possible.
• Standardized Forms Instructions: These basic instructions explain how to distribute and collect the two standardized forms.
 
• Student Travel Tally: This one-page form can be used to collect information about student travel to and from school at the classroom-level.
 
• Parent Survey: This two-page form can be used to collect information about student travel, important issues, and parental attitudes. The National Center offers paper-based and online survey collection.
 
Submit your data: Access the online data system to create or return to an account, enter new data from paper forms, and view summary reports.

Walking School Bus: A group of children walking to school with one or more trusted adults. For more information about this program and how to begin one, visit Walking School Bus Basics.pdf. You may also download a previously Walking School Bus Webinar.

Children with Disabilities: The SRTS Program was designed to include all students in Kindergarten through eighth grade. Some students have disabilities and require different strategies for their inclusion in the SRTS Program. Visit Involving Students with Disabilities.pdf to learn more about broadening your program for all students. Another resource is Florida's Walk Safe Special Education Curriculum.pdf.

Children's Books about Walking and Bicycling: Children Books.pdf

MDOT Project Development Manual for Local Public Agencies establishes the basic requirements for planning, design and construction for all SRTS and other federally funded projects under the oversight of MDOT.

Bike Walk Mississippi is Mississippi's advocacy group for all things bicycle and pedestrian.

Certified Bicycle Instructors: a listing of the League of American Bicyclists’ certified instructors located throughout Mississippi who are available to teach and train students and other groups in bicycle safety.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

• Child Pedestrian Curriculum:  http://www.nhtsa.gov/ChildPedestrianSafetyCurriculum
• Cycling Skills Clinic Guide (formerly called the Bike Rodeo):  http://www.nhtsa.gov/Driving+Safety/Bicycles/CyclingSkillsClinic
• Bikeability Checklist (in Spanish):  http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/bikeability-checklist-sp.pdf
• Walkability Checklist (in Spanish):  any day
• Pedestrians Make Safe Choices: http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pedestrian/pdf/pedestrianchoices.pdf
• Bicyclists Make Safe Choices:  http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/bicycles/pdf/bicyclistsafechoices.pdf
• A Secret Message (pedestrian):  http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/secretcode-walk.pdf
• Get to School (and Back Again) Safely Game Board (ped/bike/SRTS):  http://www.nhtsa.gov/Driving+Safety/Bicycles/Get+To+School+(and+back+again)+Safely+Gameboard
• Paul’s Amazing Trip (bicycle):  http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/paul.pdf

2011 SRTS Conference Presentations:

•  Mark Fenton PPT - web.pdf
•  Completing an Application - 2011 SRTS Conference.pdf
•  Obstacles to Look for and Avoid on SRTS Routes - Travis Wampler, 1/20/2011.pdf
•  Horn Lake SRTS Presentation.pdf

Reports

How Children Get to School: School Travel Patterns from 1969 to 2009, http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/sites/default/files/resources/NHTS_school_travel_report_2011_0.pdf. This report gives the results of school travel trends tracked for four decades. 

Getting Results: SRTS Programs That Reduce Traffic, first in a 3-part series, shows how specific schools in Utah, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Vermont and California measured success after using a variety of traffic reduction strategies. (From the National Center for Safe Routes to School)