In 2004, a group of mothers in the community approached the Foundation and proposed that a Safety Town Program be established. Safety Town is a day-camp for pre-schoolers designed to teach life skills to promote safety. The program teaches safety life skills in areas such as pedestrian & bike safety, stranger awareness, fire safety, water safety, animal safety and school bus safety. The Foundation convened the New Albany Police Department and the Plain Township Fire Department to design a program. To raise the funds needed to launch the program, the Foundation secured The New Albany Women’s Network as the lead “community sponsor” and Key Bank as the lead corporate sponsor. The program is housed at the K-1 Elementary School, with K-1 teachers serving as Safety Town instructors, along with police and fire personnel. In this way, pre-schoolers become familiar with their future teachers and future surroundings before they formally enter school. Since 2004 when the program was founded, more than 1,100 children have graduated from the program. In 2008, 315 graduated.