Lorrie Walker
Training Manager & Technical Advisor, Safe Kids Buckle Up
Lorrie is the training manager and technical advisor for the Safe Kids Buckle Up program, where she develops community-based educational programs on vehicle safety and oversees the national training program for more than 300 Safe Kids coalitions throughout the United States. Lorrie also currently serves as the curriculum committee chair for the National Child Passenger Safety Board.
Lorrie has more than 20 years experience in the traffic safety field, predominately in the areas of child passengers, bikes, school buses, children with special health care needs, teen drivers, teen passengers, and pedestrian safety.
Prior to working in Washington D.C. with Safe Kids, she served as the director of the Florida Traffic Safety Resource Center and assistant professor of research at Florida Atlantic University. She was also the program administrator of the Traffic Injury Prevention Project at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania Chapter for more than a decade.
As an advocate for child safety and injury prevention, Lorrie is a nationally certified child passenger safety instructor, has consulted on numerous studies, published articles, and routinely participates as an expert panel member for NHTSA and other organizations.
Lorrie holds a bachelor’s degree from Eastern College in St. Davids, Penn., and a master of science from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She worked for nine years as an adjunct professor in the Health Administration and Health Education Departments in both the graduate and undergraduate schools at St. Joseph’s University.
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at Apr 01, 2013 12:00 AM CDT
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Sometimes it takes traveling more than 7,000 miles to get a fresh perspective on something you’ve been doing for more than 25 years. That’s what happened to me in December when my colleague, Alexis Kagiliery, and I traveled to Doha, Qatar to conduct a technician certification.
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at Dec 14, 2011 12:00 AM CST
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Greetings from Abu Dhabi! Kerry Chausmer, Alexis Kagiliery and I just finished Day Three with this class of truly devoted advocates. This class “gets it”- even though English is not their first language and they are struggling with some of our words like frayed, slack and conventional.
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at Dec 13, 2011 12:00 AM CST
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Kerry Chausmer, Alexis Kagiliery and I are in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates teaching a child passenger safety certification course to a group of 15 child advocates. Some work in health districts or schools as nurses and administrators, others are police officers, one is a physician, a general nurse, a retailer and a driving school owner who certifies all drivers in Abu Dhabi.
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at Oct 20, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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It’s been an interesting week at Safe Kids Buckle Up! It’s National Teen Driving Awareness Week and we don’t usually get involved in teen driving issues. This year is different though, because of the Safe Kids Countdown2Drive campaign.
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at Sep 24, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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I am excited to report that Safe Kids USA has released a new study of 79,000 car seats inspected over a one year period in 2009-2010. We looked at some of the things many people get wrong when they install a car seat for their child..
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at Sep 23, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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I feel lucky to be involved in yet another Child Passenger Safety Week. This is my 25th celebration! It is a time when the nation’s 34,000 car seat technicians rally around the issue, especially on Seat Check Saturday (September 24), when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) encourages us to offer car seat checkup events in our communities on the same day..
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at Sep 22, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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Twenty-five years ago I was a new full time seat belt user. Working for the PA Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, it was a requirement and just months before my kids had shamed me into using my seat belt. I was always careful about their safety but was casual about my own. It would have been hard at the time to find an employer who was more encouraging and eager for me to learn all there was to know about child passenger safety.
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at Sep 21, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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This is National Child Passenger Safety Week and I am always looking for ways to get the word out about protecting children in and around cars. This year I am really focused on children who die not in car crashes but somewhere in or near cars..
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at Sep 20, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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I am trying to stop using the term “infant seat” as the carriers with bases can now hold children well beyond infancy. I am amazed at how much car seats have changed. They are bigger and heavier and hold older, bigger and heavier children some even up to 40 pounds.
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at Sep 19, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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Happy National Child Passenger Safety Week! I am a proud nationally certified child passenger safety technician. There are over 30,000 of us actively working to help families keep young children safe in cars. .
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at Sep 15, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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I have worked with car seats for more than 25 years and there are many things that people who transport children need to know before turning the key in the ignition. While there are lots of nice to know things, there are 5 key points every caregiver needs to know and we are telling everyone we can during Child Passenger Safety Week.
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at Apr 30, 2010 12:00 AM CDT
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As a longtime advocate for safety, I know all too well the dangers on our nation’s roads. Today is National “No Phone Zone Day” and activities are being held all across the country to bring attention to the dangerous practice of distracted driving – talking on the phone and texting while driving.
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