Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Miami
Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Miami
Holtz Children's Hospital at Jackson Health System/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Programs
RESEARCH
Passenger Safety in Multicultural and Multi-ethnic Communities: To evaluate the impact of high visibility law enforcement efforts and culturally relevant passenger safety education and car seat inspections in diverse communities. Specific populations include diverse Hispanic groups and Haitian Creole.
Miami-Dade County Injury Surveillance System: A joint effort between the University of Miami and the Miami-Dade County Health Department to build an electronic injury morbidity and mortality database to guide injury prevention and evaluation efforts.
Injury Free Mobile: To assess the effectiveness of a mobile child injury prevention center on reaching diverse and hard to reach communities on child safety knowledge among parents/caregivers and health professionals.
In-home Coaching on Child Safety: To assess safety training by family coaches on knowledge and behavior change among new moms of infants during home visits.
Health Disability: To assess juveniles entering the penal system to examine health and disability status.
Contact Info
For more information about our programs please visit our website:
www.violenceprevention.org
or contact:
Gayané Stepanian at Gstepanian@um-jmh.org
Mailing address:
Injury Free Coalition for Kids- Miami
PO Box 016820 (D-820)
Miami, Florida 33101
Phone: 305-243-3928
Fax: 305-326-9690