Mission: Provide education, training and resources to make farm, ranch and rural life safer and healthier for children and their communities. Vision: No child would become ill, injured or die from farm, ranch and rural activities.

Through our Safety Day program, we teach hands-on, safety related topics to children across North America.

We train over 400 volunteer coordinators who take the education and materials we train them on and provide the Safety Day program in rural communities.

Research conducted by the USDA Agricultural Statistics Service for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) shows that the injury rate among youth under age 20 who live, visit or are hired to work on farms and ranches, has declined by more than 60% in the past 12 years. Their report noted that the Progressive Agriculture Foundation has contributed to this decline. A rigorous evaluation of the program was conducted by the University of Alabama (UA) Institute for Social Science Research, funded by the NIOSH. When comparing three-month and one-year follow-up interviews to pre-event responses, UA found a significant increase in knowledge and safe behaviors for the participants. Knowledge scores for each age group in the sample show similar results, regardless of age. Results also show enhanced community strength and cohesiveness, due to the cooperation of individuals and organizations to achieve a common goal.

We have reached over 1. 7 million people with safety education in North America.