Safety Town is a two-week program for preschool children (usually ages five or six years old) that teaches safety lessons about fire, pedestrians/traffic, water, guns, strangers and poisons/drugs. Some communities offer programs for older children. Safety Town programs that have been accredited by the National Safety Town Center in Cleveland, Ohio are offered throughout the United States.
Safety Town is also often the name given to an area, typically smaller in scale, that represents a replica town created to instruct children about safety measures.
Original Safety Town is used here to distinguish between the program that existed between 1937 and 1964 concentrating on pedestrian safety and the more comprehensive program that exists today.
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—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)