Mission

To decrease injuries and fatalities through collaborative and preventative partnership efforts. Safe Communities Coalition of the Red River Valley is a gathering of public and private agencies that share a common interest in injury and trauma prevention through recourses, education, and information to the ever-changing community.

Vision

The vision that supports the mission includes:

• To educate and increase public awareness regarding comprehensive traffic safety.
• To provide a resource center containing current data and information on injury statistics and prevention efforts.
• To act as a liaison between, local, county, state, and federal agencies providing a base for communication, information and education.
• To maintain a safe community program within Cass and Clay counties.

Description:
Our programs include:
Car seat checks for parents
High school, worksite and “Click It or Ticket” seat belt campaigns
“Buckle Up with Bucky” seat belt curriculum for children
Alcohol server training and compliance checks
Victim Impact Panel



History:
History of the Safe Communities Coalition of the Red River Valley

The Red River Valley Safe Communities Coalition started out as the DUI Task Force in 1984. The mission of the DUI Task Force was to identify factors contributing to drinking and driving and to develop methods to counteract it. The DUI Task Force expanded its role to address the multi-faceted issues of traffic safety and became the Traffic Safety Task Force in 1990.

The Traffic Safety Task Force played an important role in drafting and
securing support for traffic safety legislation and educating the public on seat belt use and child passenger safety. The Task Force executed a multitude of projects to educate and encourage the attitude changes among drivers, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians towards safe life choices.

In the summer of 2001, the Traffic Safety Task Force changed its name to Red River Valley Safe Communities Coalition and adopted the Safe Communities Concept. The goal of the Safe Communities Concept is to promote injury prevention activities at the local level to identify and address local injury problems using a “bottoms up” approach involving its citizens in addressing key injury problems.



Contact people:


Robyn Litke, Program Coordinator, (701) 241-1341, (email) Brooke Duncan, Assistant, (701) 476-6768, (email)


Office fax number: (701) 241-8559

Address:


401 3rd Avenue North Fargo, ND 58102 (See a map)


Web Site: http://www.mysafecommunity.org

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