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Registration for York County?s award-winning Safety Town program, which teaches pre-kindergartners various aspects of life safety, will begin for county residents on Monday, May 14, 2012, and end as soon as all available spaces are filled.

Registration will also be open to non-county residents beginning Monday, May 21 if spaces are still available at that time. Registration will take place Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Community Services office in the York County Administration Building, which is located at 224 Ballard Street in Historic Yorktown.

Now in its 18th year of operation, this summer program seeks to reduce childhood injury by introducing four- and five-year-old children to basic safety concepts through the use of interactive experiences. Registration form and fee will only be accepted by hand-delivery to the address listed above, and only during the registration time period.

Set up to resemble a small-scale ?town,? with portable buildings, sidewalks, roads, and street signs, the appealing Safety Town learning environment is used as a practice area for several of the safety lessons. Each session lasts one week, running Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. All lessons and activities relate to a specific topic each day, such as Traffic and Pedestrian Safety, Fire Safety, Personal Safety, and Home Safety.

Parents will accompany their children to Safety Town on Friday, attending a Safety Fair and Completion Ceremony, at which each child will receive a certificate, a Safety Town t-shirt, backpack, and a bicycle helmet. Funding for Safety Town is provided by the generous contributions and sponsorship of area businesses, community agencies, civic organizations, county government, and individual citizens.

The schedule for the 2012 Safety Town is as follows:
Date / Location
July 9 - July 13: Mt. Vernon Elementary School
July 16 - July 20: Mt. Vernon Elementary School
July 23 - July 27: Mt. Vernon Elementary School
July 30 ? Aug 3: Magruder Elementary School

Registration forms and information are available at all York County Elementary Schools, the York County Public Library, Parks and Recreation, the Griffin-Yeates Center and online at www.yorkcounty.gov/communityservices. For further information about Safety Town, please call Katie Meis, Department of Community Services, at 890-3880.Safety Town spaces are limited to 50 children per week. The cost is $25 for York County residents and $35 for non-county residents.

Volunteer opportunities for middle school and high school students, and adults. Youth and adult volunteers are needed to serve as ?Leader Assistants,? responsible for helping staff group leaders monitor and supervise an assigned group of 10 children. Volunteer hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., Monday through Friday.?All Safety Town volunteers receive a Safety Town t-shirt and recognition at the weekly completion ceremony.?

Interested volunteers must be available to attend the volunteer training on June 22 at the Public Safety Conference Room at 301 Goodwin Neck Road from 10-11:30 am. For the purposes of scheduling and consistency, Safety Town coordinators are requiring all selected volunteers to commit to one entire week of the program this summer. Space is limited, as only 60 volunteer slots are available.

Interested youth and adults should contact York County Parks and Recreation, at 890-3500 to receive aSafety Town volunteer application or get them online at www.yorkcounty.gov/communityservices. Applications are now being accepted until all spots are filled or until the deadline of Friday, June 1, 2012.

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