Children at 20 public elementary schools in Waterloo and Cedar Falls will be safer on their playgrounds this fall, thanks to a donation of playground supervision kits from Allen Health System.

During National Playground Safety Week in April, children at McKinstry Elementary in Waterloo joined Allen Health System President and CEO Rick Seidler as he presented a kit to Principal Brian Ortman with help from Dr. Donna Thompson, Director of UNI’s National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS).

“We don’t want to see children in our emergency room because of playground injuries,” Seidler explains. “These kits will help reduce that probability.”

The NPPS-designed kit includes a training manual outlining the ABCs of safe supervision, a video which demonstrates proper supervision techniques and a supervision safety pack.