MINNEAPOLIS, November 26, 2007—A pair of child passenger safety resources developed by the Minnesota Safety Council and AAA Minnesota/Iowa have received national recognition from Safe Kids Worldwide and the National Safety Council.

The Web site, CarSeatsMadeSimple.org, and the ECHO (Emergency and Community Health Outreach) television program, "Child Safety Seats," were honored as the 2007 "Outstanding Child Passenger Safety Program" by Safe Kids Worldwide and "Outstanding Community Safety Campaign," by the National Safety Council.

The website, http://www.carseatsmadesimple.org, was launched late last year. It offers solutions to parents who face a confusing array of child safety restraint choices and installation options. The site provides information about common errors, installation checklists, and a summary of Minnesota's child passenger safety law in Spanish, Hmong and Somali as well as English.

The television program, "Child Safety Seats," was produced by the ECHO Minnesota Collaborative, which provides health and safety information to immigrant communities by phone, TV and the web. It aired in May 2007 as six separate programs, each with a different ethnic host and expert guest, in Spanish, Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian.

The television program can be viewed (or the script read) through links on the ECHO Web site at http://www.echominnesota.org/index.cfm/p/tvArchive/tvid/43/.