Cleveland Regional Medical Center, as the sponsoring lead organization, has begun the process of developing a Cleveland County SAFE KIDS Coalition. This effort is in conjunction with the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and the North Carolina SAFE KIDS Coalition.
What is the National Safe Kids Campaign?
The National SAFE KIDS Campaign shares the goal of all childhood injury prevention activists in reducing child death and disability resulting from unintentional injury. The top five risk areas are: traffic injuries (passenger, pedestrian, and bicyclist), fires and burns, drowning, choking and poisoning, and falls.
What is Safe Kids?
SAFE KIDS is a structured group of diverse local individuals and organizations that join forces to implement a program to reduce unintentional childhood injury in their communities. There are now more than 160 State and Local SAFE KIDS coalitions in 46 states and the District of Columbia. These community-based coalitions are at the heart of the National SAFE KIDS Campaign. Sharing the common goal of safer communities for children, the Coalitions are:
targeting injury problems that are prevalent in their communities;
combining resources of a wide variety of people and organizations, including experienced injury prevention activists;
planning and implementing a multi-faceted strategy that combines community action, public awareness, education, engineering (technology), and public policy initiatives.
The purpose of State and Local SAFE KIDS Coalitions is to bring about a systematic ongoing community response to childhood injury.
What is Cleveland County Safe Kids?
As the structure and activities for the Cleveland County SAFE KIDS Coalition are being developed, we invite you and/or your organization to join us. Activity in the coalition will vary from member to member, but we do ask for an ongoing and long-term commitment to join us in the goal of preventing unintentional injuries to the children of Cleveland County. The entire coalition of Cleveland County SAFE KIDS will meet on a quarterly basis. In the event you do not feel that you have the time to come to quarterly meetings but would consider being a sponsor for a SAFE KIDS event, please let us know your interest.
Judy Hawkins, Educational Resources, SAFE KIDS
Cleveland Regional Medical Center
201 Grover Street, Shelby. NC. 28150 (704-487-3182)