Private / Nonprofit Organizations / Parents or Community Members
Many local businesses and organizations support SRTS by participating in events, providing snacks or beverages for walk to school days, or helping to spread the word of SRTS. See the list of Friend Organizations below to see who is already helping out in your community.
Here are some ways that you can support SRTS:
- Include a statement of support and link to the Vermont SRTS program on your website
- Participate in joint promotion activities
- Volunteer to shovel sidewalks on walking routes during winter months
- Include SRTS as an agenda topic at your conference or meeting
- Serve as a team member on a school travel plan team
- Provide in-kind assistance or tangible resources to the local school program (e.g. grocery store providing bananas for Walk to School Day)
- Sign up with your school to be a School Champion
Government
Support schools in your town with their SRTS program. Many of you have assisted schools in your town or region with creating school travel plans, providing law enforcement staff to help with events, maintaining crosswalks or keeping pathways clear for students walking and biking to school.
Here are some ways that you can help:
- Help schools develop and update travel plans
- Ensure crosswalks and school zone signs are up to date
- Ask schools in your district about challenges with students walking or bicycling to school
- Engage law enforcement or other municipal staff to assist with walk to school events or to patrol during arrival and dismissal periods
To learn more, reach out to the schools in your community to learn how you can support their program.
Safe Routes to School Friend Organizations
The following organizations have supported Safe Routes to School programs or have similar or overlapping missions.
- AARP Vermont
- Addison County Regional Planning Commission
- American Heart Association - Northeast Affiliate
- Bennington Department of Health District Office
- Bennington Police Department
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont
- Burlington Department of Health District Office
- Burlington Kidical Mass
- Burlington School District
- Brandon Police Department
- Center for Health and Learning
- Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission
- Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission
- Community Connections
- Eat Well, Play Well Vermont
- Essex CHIPS
- Fit and Healthy Enosburg
- Fit and Healthy Swanton
- Fuel Up to Play 60
- Franklin and Grand Isle Department of Health District Office
- Go Chittenden
- Go Vermont
- Governor's Highway Safety Program
- Grand Isle Police Department
- Greater Burlington YMCA
- Green Mountain United Way
- Health Connections of the Upper Valley
- Lamoille County Regional Planning Commission
- Local Motion
- Middlebury Energy Committee
- Milton Community Youth Coalition, Inc.
- Mt. Ascutney Hospital
- Newport Department of Health District Office
- Northeastern Vermont Development Association
- Northwest Regional Planning Commission
- Northwestern Medical Center
- Ottaquechee Community Partnership
- Rutland Recreation and Parks Department
- Rutland Regional Planning Commission
- Safe Kids Vermont
- Shelburne Parks and Recreation
- Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission
- South Burlington Parks and Recreation
- South Burlington Public Works Department
- Sustainable Woodstock
- St. Albans Department of Health District Office
- St. Albans Police Department
- Swanton Police Department
- Town of Jericho
- Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission
- Vermont Adaptive
- Vermont Association of for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
- Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition
- Vermont Department of Education
- Vermont Department of Health, Fit and Healthy Vermonters
- Vermont Energy Education Program (VEEP)
- Vermont Governor's Highway Safety Program
- Vermontivate
- Way to Go! Vermont
- Windham Regional Commission