Safe Kids Durham County

05/16/2026

A HUGE thank you to our awesome community partners:
Durham County Sheriff's Office
Duke Life Flight Lebanon Fire Department Durham Bike Co-op and Durham Public Schools-Safe Routes to School for their participation in our Safety Day at Easley Elementary School!

So grateful you are so willing to come out and represent for our kids. We couldn’t do it without you and you make these events so fun!

05/10/2026

May is National Bike Safety Month! Help us spread the word about bike safety by talking with your children and sharing the following simple tips to keep bike riding safe and fun!

For more bike safety tips: https://www.safekids.org/tip/bike-safety-tips

05/08/2026

This week three of the amazing CPST Instructors from our coalition in Durham were recognized at the Safe Kids North Carolina Annual Conference for 20+ and 25+ years of service as a CPST and CPST-I! Please help us thank Theresa Cromling John O'Donnell and Bill Hall.
You all are amazing examples of commitment and dedication to this community and to keeping the children of Durham safe.

Thank you for your service!!

05/07/2026

Please help us to congratulate our Safe Kids Coordinator, Shannon Jackson, for being named North Carolina’s Safe Kids Coordinator of the Year at the Safe Kids North Carolina Annual Conference in Cherokee this week. This is not only recognition of her hard work and unwavering dedication, but also all of the amazing work and effort of our entire coalition and our volunteers! This award would not be possible without all of our coalition members and community partners, and the constant dedication Durham has to keeping our children safe. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

05/06/2026

05/06/2026

We had a great time presenting with some of our awesome nurses from Duke. Great job Julie, Ruthie, and Shannon! We were able to share all about the impactful work in Child Passenger Safety that we have done in partnership with Duke Health and our amazing community partners!

05/06/2026

A great week with Safe Kids NC!

04/25/2026

Looking forward to seeing everyone out at our free med (disposal) and shred event!

Help us keep our kids and community safe!

We will be at the Durham Center for Senior Living in the Hunt St. Parking lot from 10am-2pm today.

04/24/2026

Help keep our kids safe!

Bring any expired old unneeded medications ointment inhalers syringes injectables to our free medication takeback and document shredding event tomorrow.

Can’t wait to see you there! 

04/21/2026

Two great events this week!

To schedule an appointment for Friday visit bit.ly/safekidsdurham

Saturday Med&Shred drop-off anytime 10am-2pm