Child Passenger Safety
Car seats and boosters are one of the easiest ways to keep your child safe and, when installed correctly, car seats can reduce the risk of fatal injury in a crash by 71% for infants and by 54% for toddlers. Unfortunately, many parents install their child seats incorrectly. Among children under 5, an estimated 325 lives were saved in 2017 alone because they were properly buckled, but an additional 46 children could have been saved if every child was properly buckled.
Links & Resources
- Car Seats: Product Listing for 2024 (website)
- Important Recall Info That MAY Affect Your Car Seat (pdf)
- MACPS CRS Determining U.S. Compliance - Resource Tool (pdf)
- Dangers of Texting and Driving (website)
- Safe Kids Worldwide (website)
- National CPS Certification (website)
- Injury Prevention & Control: Motor Vehicle Safety from the CDC (website)
- FAA Tip Sheet for Child Safety (pdf)
- AAP updates child car seat recommendations (website)
- Child Seat Recommendations by Age (pdf)
- Dangerous Things Teens Do in Cars (website)
7 behaviors you can help change today. - Free Car Seat Checkup Event posters (website)
- Traffic Safety Facts (pdf)
- Child Restraint PARENT pocket card (pdf)
One for law enforcement agencies, the other for caregivers and parents. The LE card is laminated, and has the Idaho statute on the backside. The caregiver/parent card is not laminated, has facts on the backside, and is designed to be distributed. - Most new parents are doing car seats wrong (website)
- 4 Things You Need to Register Your Child's Car Seat (jpg)
For physicians and others to use to encourage families to register their car seat. 
- Safe Transportation of Obese Children
The AAP recommends keeping children in rear-facing car seats as long as possible. The AAP also recommends keeping children in a harnessed car seat vs. a booster seat as long as possible.
Idaho Department of Transportation & Idaho Chapter Child Passenger Safety Grant
- Region 1: Kootenai Health System
Sarah McNmanus at 208-883-7128 or smcmanus@k.h.org - Region 2: Moscow
Meagan M Vincello at mvincello@ci.moscow.id.us - Region 3:
- Region 4: TBD
- Region 5: TBD
- Region 6: Pocatello Police Dept
Maggie Frie at mfrei@pocatello.us - Region 7: TBD
Idaho Child Passenger Safety Technicians / Instructors
District 1 Child Passenger Instructors
Benewah, Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Shoshone
Kootenai Safe Kids Coalition (208) 625-5722
Donna Kalanick (208) 625-5722
District 2 Child Passenger Instructors
Clearwater, Idaho, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce
Daniel Ellinwood (208) 88- 7054
Meagan M Vincello (208) 883-7128
Janice O’Toole (509) 597-8917
Darla Villopoto (208) 843-9309
Adams, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, Washington
Janet Moulton (208) 284-5840
District 3 Child Passenger Instructors
Ada, Boise, Elmore, Valley
Treasure Valley Safe Kids Coalition (208) 381-1719
MacKenzie Aitken (208) 514-7661
Christina Babin (208) 367-7380
Stephanie Bishop (208) 412-0995
Jennifer Ellis (208) 388-7203
Jeannette Risch (208) 863-4670
Kyle Wills (208) 703-1585
District 4 Child Passenger Instructors
Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, Twin Falls
Magic Valley Safe Kids Coalition (208) 814-7640
Jennifer Westendorf (208) 814-7640
Travis Stickler (208) 814-1000
District 5 Child Passenger Instructors
Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Butte, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida, Power
Jon Everson (208) 236-7114
Leslie Davis (208) 785-1235
Mindi Anderson (208) 234-6109
District 6 Child Passenger Instructors
Bonneville, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison, Teton
Jenny Andrus (208) 359-3008
Carma McKinnon (208) 742-1683
Courtney Wilder (208) 359-3008
Instructors with Expertise in Specialty Car Seats
- Travis Stickler
St. Luke’s Magic Valley RMC
travisst@slhs.org - Kaity Kobayashi
kaitykobayashi@gmail.com - Jennifer Westendorf
westendj@slhs.org - Josie Bryan
brianj@slhs.org - Christina Babin
Saint Alphonsus Family Center
Christina.Babin@saintalphonsus.org
(208) 860-1273 or (208) 367-7488 - Melissa Bixby
Safe Kids Treasure Valley
melbix@gmail.com- Jennifer Ellis
St. Luke’s Community Educator - CPST-Instructor
jennifere@slhs.org or carseatmomjen@gmail.com
(208) 388-7203 - Jennifer Ellis