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Get Free Bike Helmets for Your Community
By Tammy Wishard

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The Texas Medical Association’s Hard Hats for Little Heads bike helmet giveaway program has free helmets available for you to give kids in your community. By hosting a helmet giveaway, you can reconnect with your community and help kids stay active and safe. 

TMA has 600 helmets to give away in eight counties in and around San Antonio. A grant from Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio to the TMA Foundation supports Hard Hats events in Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina, and Wilson counties. 

While supplies last, TMA will give up to 50 free helmets to any TMA member physician, county medical society, medical student chapter, or alliance who commits to host an event before the end of 2021.  

Below are some easy places to give away helmets, or you can get creative and come up with an idea or event of your own. 

  • Health and safety fairs, back-to-school events, and other church/fall/community festivals. Booths often are available for a helmet giveaway. 

  • Holiday gift/bike giveaways. Join with a local holiday event later this year to ensure a helmet accompanies each bike at the giveaway.  

  • Preschool or school giveaways. Work with a school nurse, Parent Teacher Association, or physical education teacher to select a grade or group of kids who need a helmet. Or if a school gives bikes as a reward for achievement, pair a helmet with each bike.  

  • Community youth organizations. Select a group or church that works with underprivileged kids to provide helmets.  

  • Urgent care facilities or emergency departments. Keep a supply of helmets on hand for kids who come in for a bicycle-related accident and need a new helmet. 

  • Well-checks. Pediatricians and family physicians have embraced talking about safety with their young patients and backing it up with a helmet.  

TMA has tools for a successful giveaway, including educational handouts (English and Spanish), event signage, and promotional flyers. For more information, check out the Hard Hats event toolkit. 

Send an email to TMA to claim your helmets and receive an order packet. If you have questions, email Tammy Wishard, Hard Hats coordinator, or call her at (512) 370-1470.  

Hard Hats for Little Heads is supported in 2021 with a grant from the TMA Foundation with major support from an anonymous TMA/TMAA member donor couple. 

Last Updated On

July 23, 2021

Originally Published On

July 23, 2021

Tammy Wishard

Account Manager, Division of Communications and Marketing

(512) 370-1470
tammy.wishard[at]texmed[dot]org  
Tammy Wishard

Tammy Wishard is an account manager in TMA’s Marketing Department. She works with TMA’s Office of Trust Fund Administration and other departments to help communicate the broad range of services and resources TMA offers its members. She has a 25-plus-year history with TMA, where she started as a writer/editor. Tammy, a proud Iowa native, is a graduate of Abilene Christian University.

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