Free Car Seat Checkups, Inspections, and Educational Workshops

Did you know that you can get free educational workshops that offer hands-on training to teach you important safety skills?

You can also attend car seat checkup and inspection events to ensure your child seat or child restraints are installed properly and will keep your child safe.

Checkups and Inspections

During the car seat checkup events, technicians will not only check your car seat or child-restraints for safety hazards, but they’ll also teach you everything you need to know about installing them yourself and ensuring it is fitted correctly.

Safe Kids offers free car seat checkup events at cities across the United States that you can attend, absolutely free. Currently, they have events scheduled in Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Find an event near you on the Safe Kids website. You can also go to any of their inspection stations to have a certified technician inspect your car seat and safety restraints. These stations are located in almost every state.

Educational Workshops

Safe Kids also offers a wide variety of educational workshops and community events that are free to attend. Aside from their own coalitions, it is a great place to find community events near you.

Their workshops range from hands-on car seat installation training to CPS training and more. They are held throughout the year and they are free to attend. Some of their workshops require registration to attend, but many of them are walk-in classes.

About Safe Kids

Safe Kids is a worldwide non-profit organization that helps keep kids safe from injuries. They have over 400 coalitions in the United States and they are partners in over 30 countries to help reduce the number of drownings, falls, burns, poisonings, traffic injuries, and more.

They also publish the current safety laws by State so you can keep up-to-date on changes in laws and regulations that are in place to keep you and your children safe. They cover everything from carbon monoxide laws to interlocking brakes. It is an excellent resource for parents to read the most up to date requirements by state.