Car Seat Basics: Child Passenger Safety Class

The non-member rate for this workshop is $65 and the member rate is $55. Click here to purchase your membership today.

This Child Passenger Safety workshop was designed for parents and caregivers of people who use a carseat (from infant to preschool aged kids). Come learn about car seat selection, installation, and harnessing and leave the class feeling confident and reassured in your capacity to transport your precious little one safely each and every time.

Carseats are one of the most frequently used products that we trust to keep our children safe. Shockingly enough, statistics tell us that we’re not always using them correctly. Throughout this workshop you’ll be provided with education and tools to keep your children as safe as possible.

Topics covered throughout this workshop:

• Proper Installation: teaches you how to properly install your car seat in your vehicle, ensuring it is secure and functioning correctly. Includingsafety tips, such as checking the seats expiration date, ensuring the seat is level, and using the correct harness straps.
• Understanding Car Seat Types: The class explains the different types of car seats, including infant-only seats, convertible seats, and booster seats, and helps you choose the right one for your childs age, size, and developmental needs.
• Recall and Maintenance: Youll learn how to check for recalls and maintain your car seat to ensure it remains safe and effective.
• Support others in proper use: Confidence in supporting other caregivers of your child to install & operate your car seat.

Please Note:

-Babes in arms are welcome to attend, we kindly ask that mobile babies & children do not attend.
-Each adult attending must be registered. Caregivers of the same child receive a discounted rate.
-Facilitators are professionals who may have their own private practice. They may use their discretion to determine whether an additional fee is needed when their expertise is solicited outside of class.

Nile Nash, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC, CNM is a mama of two little boys and currently offers postpartum midwifery care packages and sleep consultations. Nile is also a certified as a Child Passenger Safety Technician through Safe Kids Worldwide and will renew her certification every two years. Nile’s technician number is SKID #T839019. Her practice, Mama Lion, was born in 2005 when she started out as a DONA Doula and Birthing From Within Mentor before attending UCSFs MEPN Masters program from 2007-2010 to become a nurse midwife. Mama Lion Midwifery thrived in San Francisco for 9 years in the beautiful community of homebirth midwives in the Bay Area. The last few years have been consumed by birthing and raising two little ones during the pandemic and tending to her family. The newest chapter of her calling as a midwife has focused Niles professional role on the fourth trimester postpartum period. Mama Lion now cares for families who birth in the hospital but have the wisdom to set up a postpartum plan. Nile is thrilled to be working with the Natural Resources family as the newest facilitator of the New Mothers Circle and the Pregnant Together Circle. www.mamalion.org