Facey, V. & Harris, A. (2000). RACV education programs for schools – work in progress. Paper presented at the Road Safety Research, Policing & Education Conference, Brisbane, Australia, November 2000.

RACV is committed to helping students, teachers and parents improve road safety in Victoria by:

• providing Victorian school children with age appropriate Traffic Safety Education (TSE) programs which are fun, engaging and encourage improved road safety attitudes and behaviours

• providing teachers and schools with programs and resources that support current educational initiatives and assist in effectively integrating TSE into the school curriculum.

Throughout 1999, with a view to identifying future strategic directions, RACV conducted a comprehensive review it’s TSE programs delivered to schools. As a result of the review, innovative new programs were developed. The current pre-school, primary and secondary school programs are curriculum based, linked with relevant road safety resources, and are flexible in their content and structure so as to best suit the needs of a particular class, school or local community. An overview of the findings of the 1999 review, the strategic directions underpinning RACV’s new programs, and a description of the programs for 2000 are outlined in this paper. [Author Abstract]