create awareness of car seat safety. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children 1 to 13 years old. Providing information and car seat safety instructions to parents and caregivers is one way to save lives. Safe Ride News published a 44-year timeline of child passenger safety advancements, spanning a protest by physicians for automotive safety in 1965 to revisions in school bus seating standards in 2008. Certification program Members of the NCPSB work with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Safe Kids Worldwide. NHTSA has the responsibility to assure the technical accuracy of the curriculum, while Safe Kids CPS Certification is charged with responsibility, authority and liability for the certification and re-certification processes. Board members provide input and perspective from their organizations and to their constituencies on ways to ensure the ongoing significance of the National Child Passenger Safety Certification Training Program in keeping children safe. History In the mid-1990s, a small team of child passenger safety professionals was tasked by NHTSA to look at the national state of child passenger safety. The group, the Patterns for Life Team, recommended a standardized national curriculum and a national certification process for technicians. A standardized curriculum was created and AAA became the initial national certifying body. This still left a need for input from those out in the field, and a group of CPS stakeholders, including representatives from national and local organizations, vehicle and car seat manufacturers and injury prevention professionals, was pulled together. The group was formalized and the National Child Passenger Safety Board was created in 1993. The first standardized curriculum was published in 1998. The Board currently oversees the certification curriculum and makes recommendations to both NHTSA and the certifying body, now Safe Kids Worldwide. Awards Each year, the Board recognizes men and women for their contributions to child passenger safety through its Technician, Instructor and Team of the Year awards program. 2019 Award Winners Omaha's Jennifer Penick became the first person to posthumously receive the Technician of the Year award. Penick, who helped launch Car Seat for the Littles in 2010, was committed to securing children safely in their seats – most notably her own five-year-old daughter, who survived the same car crash that killed Penick and her husband, Adam, in June 2018. Their daughter, Unity, survived the head-on collision on Highway 50 near Schramm Road because she was properly harnessed in her