Pasco Sheriff's Office
Safety Town
The Safety Learning Center 
for Children

Tell me and I will forget ...
Show me and I may remember ...
Involve me and I will understand ...


What is Safety Town?    Click to view presentation                  

Safety Town is a realistic, child-sized town designed to provide a complete hands-on safety education for children. The town has paved streets, working traffic signals, miniature buildings, and even a railroad crossing, all designed to be as authentic as possible to provide the most exciting, most effective safety training for children available anywhere.

Safety Town is truly a community project. It has been created through the support and cooperation of many businesses, public and private agencies, and civic organizations.

The Goal of Safety Town

The goal of Safety Town is to reduce accidental injuries and deaths of children through an on-going community-based safety education program. Consider these sobering statistics:

  • Children are at a higher risk of disability or death through a preventable injury than all childhood diseases combined.

  • Seventy percent of all fires resulting in the death of a child are started by children.

  • Bicycle and pedestrian accidents are the leading cause of non-fatal injuries to children.

  • The leading cause of death of young children is drowning. Florida leads the nation with more than twice the national average in drowning.

Where is Safety Town? 

Pasco Safety Town is located between Hays Road and Shady Hills Road on State Road 52, about eight miles east of U.S. Highway 19.

The Safety Town Program

Safety Town focuses on children in kindergarten through second grade, ages 5-8. Public and private schools and children's groups visit Safety Town as a field trip during the week. The children are taught by volunteers who have been trained by education and safety professionals. Safety topics covered include: 

  • Pedestrian safety

  • Bicycle safety

  • Water safety

  • Fire safety

  • Electrical safety

  • The right way to call 911

  • Safety around animals

  • Stranger danger

  • Using safety belts

Safety Town is also used for bicycle safety rodeos, and to train adults such as school crossing guards. 

We Need Your Help! 

Safety Town cannot operate without the support of people willing to give their time and resources for the safety of our children. Volunteers are always needed to act as guides for the children, perform administrative tasks and assist with maintenance. Donations are always needed to help pay for maintenance, new construction, and on-going costs of operating the facility. For further information, contact:

Pasco Safety Town
P.O. Box 1285
New Port Richey, Florida 34656-1285
(813) 929-1203