Child Passenger Safety Needs and Resources in Michigan PDF Download

Author: Michelle L. Macy
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Languages : en
Pages : 103

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This study was performed to characterize child passenger safety resources in Michigan and to analyze the impact of Michigan's child passenger safety technicians (CPSTs), who are certified to instruct caregivers on how to correctly use child restraints. The objective was to provide OHSP with the information to guide equitable distribution of child passenger safety resources throughout Michigan. Analyses used existing data from the 2010 U.S. Census, the American Community Survey 2009-2013, Michigan State Police crash reports from 2010 through 2014, Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) lists of certified CPSTs and their locations from 2012 to 2015, OHSP records of child restraint system distribution, and child passenger safety checklist form data from Safe Kids Michigan. Counties were considered areas at risk (with greatest need for child passenger safety resources) based on a composite risk score that included population characteristics including minority race, Hispanic/non-English speaking, poverty, and low educational attainment and crash-related injuries or suboptimal child passenger restraint behaviors associated with a crash adjusted for the child population ≤9 years. Needs and resources were assessed for the 83 counties and 15 OHSP Traffic Safety Regions in Michigan. A survey of CPSTs in Michigan was conducted to gather data on the workforce characteristics. Results show that counties with the highest risk scores are concentrated in the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the counties with the largest number of CPSTs are in the Lower Peninsula. The total number of CPSTs in Michigan has been stable around 950, with 140 to 260 new CPSTs in a given year. Only Keweenaw, Alcona, and Montmorency counties had no CPSTs who reported living or working there. The majority of CPSTs self-identified as white race. Spanish was the most common non-English language spoken by CPSTs. The largest proportions .