On Friday, June 23, 2017, Safe Kids Georgia held their quarterly Coalition Resource Meeting at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia. The Safe Kids Georgia team and fifteen of our Safe Kids Coalitions participated. During our quarterly meeting, our coordinators were able to share beneficial information along with recent successes.
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Continue Reading →The Safe Kids Georgia team and a few of our co-workers from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta were happy to attend and support the press conference today at the State Capitol discussing the “Look Again” Campaign urging greater awareness to protect Georgia’s youngest citizens.
For the fourth consecutive year, Governor Nathan Deal, First Lady Sandra Deal, and […]
Continue Reading →For the second year in a row, Safe Kids Douglas hosted a car seat check the Saturday prior to Mother’s Day. Safe Kids Douglas hosts quarterly seat checks at the Douglas County Transportation Center, but this one is extra special with roses for all the mothers participating. Of the 11 seats checked on this day, only […]
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Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers, ahead of all other types of injury, violence, or disease.1 Every day, six teenagers are killed in a motor vehicle crash in the U.S.1 In 2015, teenagers 15-19 years of age accounted for 66% of motor vehicle deaths among children […]
Continue Reading →Last week our program coordinator and one of our interns took a trip to Emory’s downtown campus to attend a Brown Bag Lecture hosted by the Injury Prevention and Research Center at Emory (IPRCE). Deceptively titled, there were no brown bags present at this lecture — it must have been “Bring Your Own Bag”. Nevertheless, they […]
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Drivers in their 20s are 24 percent of drivers in all fatal crashes, but are 27 percent of the distracted drivers and 33 percent of the distracted drivers that were using cell phones in fatal crashes. In 2015, there were 3,477 people killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers. More than […]
Continue Reading →This month the Safe Kids Georgia team collaborated with our lead agency, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Injury Prevention Program (CHIPP) to host the first Baby Safety Shower. Also in partnership with the Grady Women’s Center, the purpose of the shower was to educate mothers on safe care of their newborns and to provide some select home […]
Continue Reading →National Poison Prevention Week is March 19th – 25th
Medications are the leading cause of child poisoning. In 2013, over 59,000 children were seen in emergency room for medicine poisoning. That’s one child every nine minutes. Almost all of these visits are because the child got into medicines during a moment […]
Continue Reading →One of the most common questions parents and caregivers have regarding their child’s car seat is, “Is it safe?”. While all car seats rated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are safe, car seats do differ in ease of use. The NHTSA provides an Ease of Use rating system for consumers to […]
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SIDS is the leading cause of death in infants between 1 month and 1 year of age. Most SIDS deaths happen when babies are between 1 month and 4 months of age. Each year, about 4,000 infants die unexpectedly during sleep time, from SIDS, accidental suffocation, or unknown causes. SIDS […]
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