The greatest risk is to children 5-9 years of age, in their own neighborhoods. The group takes in children from Kindergarten through the 3rd Grade. Children are difficult to protect, since they lack skills and experience that most adults have come to take for granted. Children are impulsive - they don't stop to think of the safety of a movement.
Children have little or no sense of danger.
The task of training children on pedestrian safety is complicated by their level of development. Children will learn to recite rhymes and may move their head in both directions - it's not enough. There have been many attempts to educate young children, few show significant results in improving their safety. Until age 9, children have great difficulty learning these difficult judgmental skills. They are not ready.