State Farm® Safe Neighbors

Auto Safety from the car seat to the driver's seat

Child Passenger Safety
In 1997, State Farm joined forces with The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to research safety issued related to children younger than 16 riding in automobiles.  The Partners for Child Passenger Safety (PCPS) research study was the first academic-corporate partnership devoted to significantly helping reduce deaths and injuries to children in motor vehicles.  For ten years (1997-2007), PCPS created the largest source of data on this subject.  This data is available at www.chop.edu or at statefarm.com.

Another partner, Safe Kids Worldwide®, is a global network of organizations whose mission is to prevent accidental childhood injury, a leading killer of children 14 and under.  Safe Kids administers the standardized National Child Passenger Safety (CPS) Certification program and State Farm is proud to support those efforts.  Through our sponsorship, we have the opportunity to increase the number of certified CPS technicians available across the country, particularly in underserved and high-risk populations. 

Teen Driver Safety
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers. One in four crash fatalities in the United States involves 16- to 24-year-olds.  Something has to change. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm have partnered once again, this time  to learn more about what motivates teens in their driving behavior. Named the Young Driver Research Initiative, a wealth of information about what it means to be a teen driver offers many opportunities to address and minimize the risks – to do everything in our power to keep them safe.

Seat Belt Safety
State Farm and Meharry Medical College formed an alliance to research why seat belt and child safety seat use is lower among African Americans.  The Meharry-State Farm Alliance is using the findings to close the disparity by influencing legislation and through culturally appropriate public awareness campaigns.

Safe and Sober
State Farm is proud to be a national sponsor of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), whose mission is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this crime and prevent underage drinking.  Protecting You/Protecting Me is part of MADD’s comprehensive approach to prevent underage drinking through proven-effective, education-based programs and efforts to limit alcohol access to youth. Protecting You/Protecting Me is a nationally recognized, research science-based curriculum, named a Model Program by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.