Sioux Empire Safety Village: What is Sioux Empire Safety Village?

About Us The Project Mission/Goals Support Opportunities About Us Home	Mission, Vision, Strategy The Mission of the Sioux Empire Safety Village is; to create safety awareness, promote life safety skills, and provide injury prevention education and training through a community-wide partnership for the benefit of all. Our Vision statement reads; To provide an environment where individuals acknowledge that injuries are predictable, understandable and therefore preventable. Our Strategic Goals are; To Encourage Collaborative Partnerships of all organizations sharing in a mission-based interest in the beliefs, visions and mission of the Sioux Empire Safety Village. Establish Training & Education Programs to serve the safety awareness, life safety skills and injury prevention needs of the Sioux Empire. This can be achieved by the joining of various partners with the Sioux Empire Safety Village. Central Clearinghouse Resource for safety-related education, training, instruction and public awareness for the Sioux Empire community. To Provide an Online Service providing safety information for teachers, the general public, and the nation. To Build a Safety Center utilized by the various partners and community to teach and learn about injury prevention.	Sioux Empire Safety Village was first conceived in 1998 after a visit to the National Fire Academy included a field trip to the Childrens Village project in Hagerstown Maryland. Seeing an operational, Safety Center designed to teach injury prevention to children, led us to write a concept paper which was shared with a number of Sioux Falls business people. All thought it was a good idea so a board of directors was formed, 501-C-3 status was obtained from the Internal Revenue Service and, over a number of years projects began to come into being. The Sioux Empire Safety Village is located on the WH Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls South Dakota and has both premanent and temporary exhibits and special events on the fairgrounds. Our planned growth shows that in the next five years we will either completely move off the fairgrounds to our own property or build a number of other exhibits onto the property to help the public understand that injuries are not "accidents" and most of the time can be avoided through education, proper engineering and sometimes through enforcement programs.