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Santa Clarita ‘Safety Town’ Officials Asking For Votes For State Farm Grant (VIDEO)

Santa Clarita Safety Town — an annual summer safety education camp that educates young children on pedestrian and vehicle safety — was recently named as a finalist for the State Farm Neighborhood Assist grant.


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Competing against schools across the country, Santa Clarita Safety Town officials have announced they have moved on to the final round of the State Farm Neighborhood Assist grant competition.

And now, organizers of the Santa Clarita-based program are encouraging community members to help them win the grand prize and be named one of 40 contestants to win a $25,000 grant.

Safety Town is described as a miniature city specifically built for small children. The city includes a “secured playground, with traffic lights, street and stop signs, striped walkways, crosswalks and streets,” according to Safety Town’s website.

The week-long program covers topics on how to deal with strangers, fire safety, animal safety, playground safety and earthquake safety, along with various similar safety precautions.

“Under the guidance of California credentialed teacher, trained volunteer counselors and local community safety professionals, 40 children at each camp will learn and practice essential safety skills they will use in their everyday lives — at home, at school, in the community and in the future,” the website states.

Related story: ‘Safety Town’ Kids Summer Camp Hosts CHP Guest Speaker

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The program offers education for 120 kids per year, and the winning funds for this year’s State Farm competition could help meet the needs of more children and offer adults a new program, according to the education camp.

“With this money, Safety Town will have an opportunity to expand our program and reach almost 40 percent more young children,” said Susan Russell, the executive director of Safety Town.

Nearly doubling the size of its program will help Safety Town officials in their mission to empower Santa Clarita children by teaching them safety and injury-prevention skills that they can then use at home, school, in the community and for the future, according to Russell.

The program also offers opportunities for younger volunteers to become counselors-in-training. This course allows youth to assist and help educate the young children, as well as help them earn community service hours.

Applicants must be students ages 13-17 and must be willing to work with two or three children ranging in age from four-and-a-half to six years old.

Santa Clarita residents will have the opportunity to vote in the State Farm grant competition starting Wed., Aug. 15 until Friday, Aug. 24.

For more information on where to vote for Safety Town, visit the competition website here or check out the Safety Town Facebook page.

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Santa Clarita ‘Safety Town’ Officials Asking For Votes For State Farm Grant (VIDEO)

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  1. Congratulations to all involved in the Safety Town program.

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Lalig Tarbinian is a photojournalist who received her Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and minor in History from Long Beach State University in the fall of 2017. Lalig has interned at multiple publications, including NBCUniversal, La Habra Journal and The Edge Long Beach. She is a photographer, a videographer and a writer, and has won multiple awards at Journalism conferences for community colleges from 2013-2016. She is currently a full time Senior Staff Writer for KHTS news.