Why does our community need a Children's Safety Village?

• Hospitalization rates for injuries and poisonings are 27% higher in Brant County than the provincial average.
• Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death and disability amongst school aged children. (Ontario Trauma registry 1991)
• Injury experts estimate 90-95% of childhood injuries are preventable.
• The Future of Children - a study of unintentional injuries

The Children’s Safety Village of Brant is a place where children ages 4 to 12, regardless of their level of ability or disability learn the fundamentals of safety and awareness. Programs such as fire prevention, smoke alarms, traffic and bicycle safety and stranger awareness are taught.

Children are encouraged to demonstrate skills they have learned in a miniature town that is complete with sidewalks, roadways, street signs, traffic lights, stop signs and a working railway crossing. The children navigate their way through the village by foot, on bicycles or in small battery powered vehicles.

All activities at the village are supervised by police officers, firefighters and our trained community volunteers. The Children's Safety Village of Brant provides a safe and realistic environment for children to understand and apply the safety lessons they have learned.