Hard Hats for Little Heads

See What Can Happen If You Don’t Wear a Helmet

In bike crashes, head injury causes more deaths and serious disability than any other injury. Wearing a bicycle helmet that fits properly can prevent nearly all head injuries. Watch how a helmet protects your head (or, in this case, a melon) in this new TMA video.

What is Hard Hats for Little Heads?

Hard Hats for Little Heads bicycle helmet giveaway program was created to help reduce head injury among Texas children. A properly fitting helmet can prevent almost all head injuries — up to 85 percent — the most common cause of disability or death in a bicycle crash. Since 1994, TMA has given away more than 350,000 helmets to Texas children.

Find Out More

Hard Hats Newsroom

The latest news releases:

• Eustace Primary School Students to Receive Bike Helmets
• Act Now to Promote Bicycle Safety in October
• 2,300 Texas Kids to Receive Free Helmets From TMA in May
• Q&A: Hard Hats for Hard Hats for Little Heads Advocates Alan Howell, MD, and Martha Howell
• Giving a Bike? Don't Forget the Helmet
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Hard Hats Resources

Get the resources you need to host your event:

Hard Hats for Little Heads Power Point

Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

Bicycling Life (tips for bike rodeos)

Bike Rodeo Event Ideas

Brain Injury Association of America

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (bicycle safety)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (helmet safety)

Safe Kids

Texas Guide to Safe Bicycling

Thank you

Hard Hats for Little Heads is funded in 2021 with a grant from the TMA Foundation with major support from an anonymous TMA/TMAA member donor couple, and by the Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio. 

Special thanks to the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, Texas College of Emergency Physicians, and Texas Pediatric Society. Their contributions provide 25 helmets for Texas family physicians, along with TCEP and TPS members (matched with 25 helmets from the Hard Hats program).