BALTIMORE (WBFF) — ShareBaby, in partnership with Heritage and MileOne Autogroup’s philanthropic program MileOneCares, distributed 300 new car seats to families in need through its car seat education and distribution program.

The car seat distribution is part of a program that provides nonprofit organizations with child passenger safety education training and car seats for their community members.

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Families representing 15 of ShareBaby’s partners learned how to properly install car seats, and each family also received a free car seat. Representatives from each partner organization received additional seats that will be distributed within their respective communities.

With the training and donated car seats, those organizations want to ensure that families in their communities can acquire car seats, install them, and use them correctly.

Valencia Hike, Director of Operations at ShareBaby, enjoyed having families at today’s event.

“It’s really fun today to have families. We don’t usually get to have families at the warehouse, so it’s been great to have the families and the partners and to be able to share this program with them through MileOne,” she said.

This year, representatives from 15 of ShareBaby’s community partners have participated in the program and have received training on proper car seat installation from Maryland Kids in Safety Seats (KISS), a state-wide program that strives to reduce injuries and death among Maryland’s children by helping people obtain and use car seats and booster seats.

After donating 300 car seats for this year’s event, MileOneCares will be on target to distribute over 1,000 car seats by the end of the year.

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Hike said that her major takeaway from this event was that communities are working together to help the families in need.

“The majority of our families are working families and they’re out here doing their best to make end’s meet. It’s great to know that there are organizations in Baltimore to give a helping hand to families,” he said. “Our communities are better off when we’re all working together.”