Our list of helmet program resources has sources of helmet program info and materials, with an indication of what they can do for you. Free pamphlets, posters, videos, bookmarks.
Comic book: Captain Super Safe. A 16 page comic in .pdf format with a story of lost helmets solved by Captain Super Safe. If printed out in black and white it would make a good coloring book.
We have a Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs that includes some of the materials above on paper. It also includes duplicating masters of our pamphlets and other handout materials. There is a CD with the program manual, the California manual and the rodeo guide described above. And finally, we include two DVD's with the three DOT bike helmet and safety videos and Safe Kids' video Jello in a Jar. We send the Toolkit to you free, and you are welcome to duplicate any of the materials for school, police or any other non-profit use by a non-profit organization. (For-profits please check with us, except for local bike shops, who are encouraged to duplicate and hand out any of our materials.) Just email us at info@helmets.org. Be sure to give us a postal mailing address if you want the Toolkit! We can usually get it in the mail to you within 24 hours, but if you need it sooner there are links to all of the materials here on this page. Here is
more on requesting our materials, and here is a page with the contents of the Toolkit and a link to the Word file if you can't wait for snail mail.
Other Sites
Here is our Links Page for helmet program sites beyond those mentioned below.
The WABA Bike Safety Site has an extensive set of manuals and instructions for running bicycle safety courses, including a lesson handbook, teacher's guide, sample letters and waivers, forms, evaluation techniques and more.
Brain Injury: A Manual for Educators from the Colorado Department of Education helps teachers deal with brain injured students. "Teachers have to consider the possibility that a child’s learning problems could stem from a brain injury. The student with a brain injury may have problems in school that look the same as children with other disabilities."
How Not to Get Hit by Cars is a useful way to approach bicycle safety, emphasizing that "wearing a helmet will do absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting hit by a car."
Healthcom Interactive has a free teacher's resource guide in .pdf format with activities including an egg drop, a scanning lesson, stop and search left/right/left, hand signals and a rap-style helmet song for grades 2 and 3.
Rad Rider is the best graphics-based helmet site on the Web. It has a 20-page comic book with super hero, chase scenes, violence, and
stuff that scrolls, spins, morphs and moves all over the screen -- all putting across a safety and
helmet theme. Plus a quiz you take on line and get feedback on correct answers.
Oregon Health Sciences UniversityOHSU's goal is to improve the
health of all Oregonians. OHSU educates health professionals and biomedical researchers in a variety of fields,
undertakes patient care, performs community service and performs biomedical research, and they have a helmet section. You can download a helmet brochure from them in .pdf format.
We have some other helmet promotion sites on our Links Page that you may find useful.
