Jamie Hector smiled as his 6-year-old daughter Coral chose a red bike helmet at the Pop-Up Safety Town event at a local school gymnasium. That helmet, which she promptly covered with cute cat stickers, could save her from a trip to the emergency room.
Coral also learned about pedestrian and medication safety along with dog bite prevention—part of the Pop-Up Safety Town Initiative created by University of Michigan pediatrician Andy Hashikawa in 2017.
The initiative, now part of the U-M Concussion Center, provides critical education on concussion prevention, pedestrian and medication safety and dog bite prevention to communities across the state.
The initiative …