About Children's Village

Children's Village of Washington County is a life safety education center located in western Maryland. Our five-acre injury prevention campus was developed through combined local, state and federal support.

Children's Village provides a centralized facility where safety education is delivered to our county's second graders. Students learn fire, traffic, water, pedestrian and other personal safety skills from instructors, including uniformed firefighters and police officers. The core theme of instruction is that fires and injuries are understandable, predictable and almost always preventable.

Nearly 2000 second graders from Washington County attend the center throughout the school year. Family outreach is estimated at 10,000. An annual open house draws another 2,000 citizens to the center. The campus also serves as home base for juvenile firesetting intervention and other community-based life safety programs.

Program impact and outcome are impressive. A positive life safety behavioral or environmental change occurs in half the households who have a child attend Children's Village. Significant residential fires have dropped over fifty percent since the program began in 1991.

Children's Village has earned national recognition for its success story. A significant portion of the campus was built entirely though in-kind contributions from the local community. There are currently 27 documented cases where former students have saved lives as a direct result of lessons leaned at the center.

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