Free Webinar: Kids on the Move: Advancing Safe Active Travel
Join us for an engaging webinar as we explore practical examples of programs that are successfully shifting travel behaviour for kids and their families.
FREE WEBINAR
Kids on the Move: Advancing Safe Active Travel
Wednesday, Nov 19 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM PST
About the Session
Join us for a lunchtime webinar showcasing practical, real-world examples of programs that are successfully shifting travel behaviour for children and their families and helping more people choose active travel options like walking, cycling, and rolling.
You’ll hear from the leaders and practitioners behind these impactful initiatives and learn how their approaches have created healthier, safer, and more connected communities. Find out how these programs can be adapted and replicated in other Canadian communities.
This session is ideal for active transportation advocates, practitioners, school staff, parent advisory committee representatives and municipal and engineering professionals and leaders, passionate about building accessible, safe and thriving communities.
Presenting Partner
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🎤 Featured Speakers
Cassie Smith
Strategic Lead, Transportation, EnviroCentre, Ottawa
Cassie Smith is a mobility researcher, advocate, and Strategic Lead, Transportation at EnviroCentre. Her experiences caring for children in a car-centric suburban environment during the climate crisis inspired her to complete a Master of Arts in Geography at Carleton University focused on how mobility change happens in practices and policy. In her role at EnviroCentre, she grows their work providing impactful climate solutions. EnviroCentre supports people and businesses in Ottawa and across Eastern Ontario in reducing transportation emissions by shifting to transit, biking, and walking. They deliver School Active Transportation Programming for the City of Ottawa and have worked on numerous child-focused mobility solutions. Cassie is also Vice President of Bike Ottawa and founder of Kidical Mass Ottawa, a joyful celebration and plea for safe streets for kids. She leads a weekly bike bus to her children’s school and is passionate about making the connections between safe streets, youth mobility, health, and climate action.
Maya Goldstein
Bike Bus Manager, HUB Cycling
Maya discovered the world of Bike Buses when she noticed the bike racks at her children's school were nearly empty. She set out to change that by starting a Friday Bike Bus back in April 2023. That Bike Bus is still running weekly, the bike racks look much fuller, and many students are biking to school regularly. The HUB-led Bike Bus Program will help more schools start new Bike Buses. Maya is also the founder of Kids on Wheels, a program for young children to learn to ride balance bikes and get excited about biking from a young age.
Molly Barkowsky
Regional Coordinator for Children's Sustainable Transportation, TransLink
Molly is a Children's Mobility and Active Travel specialist. Her passion for child and age-friendly transportation stems from her multidisciplinary background in Planning, Active Transportation, Design, and Health. As TransLink's Regional Coordinator for the TravelSmart4Kids Strategy—Metro Vancouver's sustainable transportation strategy for children 0–12—she collaboratively works across levels of government and organizations to empower children's knowledge of and access to sustainable travel choices around Metro Vancouver and beyond.