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Programs and Events at Injury Free Sites

On November 18th, 2020 Injury Free Coalition for Kids Sites across the country worked together to raise awareness about the work they do and the need for Injury Prevention. You can learn what happened at each site by following the information below.

Atlanta

Injury Free Atlanta observed National Injury Prevention day with the efforts of two health systems: The Grady Health System and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. The day was used to kick off a general Injury Prevention Social Media campaign designed to highlight Injury and Injury prevention into the first quarter of 2021. Stickers promoting the hashtag #BeInjuryFree were provided to Emergency Department Nurses on both campuses, as well as primary care and inpatient care at the Hughes Spalding campus. There was messaging at huddle, signs in breakrooms and information about the day was shared in institution newsletters, on Facebook and Instagram. Staff e-mails were sent to make people aware of the efforts and posts were made on internal websites.

Austin

Injury Free Austin at Dell Children's Medical Center celebrated National Injury Prevention Day by teaching children how to stay safe with the book: How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe. Close to 150 children at Dell Children's and the community it serves received the book. The site also partnered with Leesa Ross and her organization Lock Arms for Life to obtain a Mayoral Proclamation. The work being done and the burden of injury was discussed during a video interview on local KXAN news. Safe Kids Austin joined the effort with a Twitter Chat and posted on @DellChildrens and @safekidsaustin Facebook pages and Instagram.

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Birmingham

Injury Free Birmingham addressed the need to raise awareness from a number of different directions. The Children's Hospital of Alabama Adolescent Clinic, the Primary Care Clinic, and the Emergency Department were asked to wear green in acknowledgement of the day and a two page Injury Prevention Awareness Handout was supplied to pediatricians across the state for distribution. More than information was handed out. The adolescent clinic gave booster seats and trigger locks to families and the emergency department provided 100 bags that included medication lock boxes, trigger locks and other safety equipment. The site also used multiple media outlets for delivering the message about the need for Injury Prevention and the hospital lit up in green that night.

Boston

Injury Free Boston observed National Injury Prevention Day by distributing home safety bags and bicycle helmets at the Martha Eliot Health Center, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center, and Boston Children's Hospital Emergency Department and Trauma Service. In addition, people at Boston Children's Hospital wore green. There was also a day long virtual conference focused on Child Passenger Safety and motor vehicle crash education. It was attended by more than 600 people. Continuing medical education credits were made available for attendees.

Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Public Library, NYC Department of Transportation, NYS Department of State/ Division of Consumer Protection, NYC Poison Control Center, NYC Department of Health/Healthy Homes Division, and FDNY joined forces with Injury Free Brooklyn to offer several virtual injury prevention safety classes throughout National Injury Prevention Day. The topics covered included information for people of all ages. The sessions looked at Pedestrian Safety and Healthy Aging for seniors, Fire Prevention, Home Safety and Holiday Safety.

View the Injury Prevention Day virtual event flyer.

Chicago (Lurie)

Injury Free Chicago at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital made the use of social media its main thrust in its push to raise awareness on National Injury Prevention Day. Several social media posts were made and the hospital's media relations worked to get the message out about the need to prevent injuries.

Chicago (Rush)

Injury Free Chicago at RUSH provided mini-first aid kits for distribution at ambulatory events and farmers markets throughout the area. There giveaways and photos taken neighborhood schools and at Old St. Mary's Church. In addition an injury prevention awareness event took place in the lobby of the South Loop clinic where information was shared about microwave safety and bike helmets. Pediatrics staff was encouraged to wear green on the on National Injury Prevention Day.

Cincinnati

Prior to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Family Resource Center shining a green light at sundown, there was a flurry of injury prevention awareness activities during the day. Injury Free Cincinnati partnered with the local Boys & Girls Club for several injury prevention learning sessions. Each student and staff taking part was given a green mask sporting the Injury Free Coalition for Kids logo and #BeInjuryFree. There were also activities at The Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center where the internal website featured an injury prevention story that included injury data, safety tips and local community initiatives leading up to National Injury Prevention Day. The posts also asked the hospital staff of over 15,000 to go green for the day and take pictures. In addition, the hospital's social media sites promoted the day and representatives from Injury Free Cincinnati took part in the Coalition's one hour twitter chat.


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Hartford

To observe National Injury Prevention Day Injury Free Hartford at Connecticut Children's Medical Center observed National Injury Prevention Day by providing Virtual Car Seat Education to parents. Representatives from more than 20 families received the life-saving education on child passenger safety and economically challenged families received a free car seat.

Houston (UTHealth/Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital)

For Injury Free Houston at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the University of Texas Health System, National Injury Prevention Day was all about using social media to raise awareness. Original plans to engage in contests hosted by an EMS community partner, Harris County Emergency Corps and have residents share their use of safety devices had to be put on hold because of COVID 19. A future date for those activities is TBD; however, this Injury Free site did raise awareness when it received a proclamation from the Mayor of Houston and it led the way for a number of Houston and Texas landmarks to shine a green light. Injury Free Houston at Children's Memorial Hermann was also instrumental in the Coalition's hour long twitter chat.

Houston (Texas Children's)

Texas Children's Hospital was committed to raising awareness about the significance of preventable injuries by through a blog, shared within the institution and externally via the Texas Children's communications channels. In addition there was a series of bilingual virtual education classes covering car seats, home safety, and safe sleep. Families who participated received car seats, cribs, and childproofing products. The Main Campus Emergency Center held a go green contest and there was an Injury Prevention Day Quiz.


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Indianapolis

Injury Free Indianapolis at Riley Children's Hospital raised awareness about the need for injury prevention on a number of fronts during National Injury Prevention Day. A table providing educational materials and resources was set up in the from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. In addition to the informational table, awareness was raised as people engaged with Emergency Department Staff who wore "Ask Me About Injury Prevention" pins.

The site partnered with a number of other Indiana University Health departments including: facilities, government affairs, public relations, and social media (including photography and journalism). Some virtual injury prevention educational video's produced during COVID led to Injury Prevention Day being highlighted on the morning news at a local TV station. Social Media was also key as the Riley Children's Health Facebook highlighted the day and its efforts on a number of occasions an Injury Free Indianapolis took part in the Coalition's hour long twitter chat. The site's efforts were acknowledged with both a Mayoral and Gubernatorial proclamation and when the sun went down the hospital shined a green light to make the support of the effort known.


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Iowa City

Injury Free Iowa was able to Shine a Green Light on the need for Injury Prevention in a number of ways.

Charles Jennissen, MD Principal Investigator for Injury Free Iowa City presented during a "Rural Youth and Firearms" session of the Midwest Rural Agricultural Safety and Health Conference on November 18th as part of the National Injury Prevention Day programming in his city. The conference had a total of 132 attendees from 14 US states and 5 countries.

Injury Free Iowa City, a number of other University of Iowa Departments and additional entities in the institution posted social media messages every day during the week when National Injury Prevention Day too place. On the day itself, Injury Free Iowa City took over the University of Iowa Instagram site with an "A Day in the Life" theme showing injury prevention colleagues doing work in safe sleep, child passenger safety, ATV/Side-by-Side injury prevention and teen driving safety. The messages relayed on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and Zoom weren't the only ways National Injury Prevention Day was acknowledged in Iowa City. National Injury Prevention Day was also featured in the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center's monthly injury blog and the Center produced a zoom background used across the country.

University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital clinics and inpatient units that take care of pediatric trauma patients received green pins with the words "I wear green because" as a conversation starter to raise awareness with patients and their families. Staff were encouraged to wear the pins during the week when National Injury Prevention Day took place. The staff members were also invited down to the Safety Store to receive a gift as a token of gratitude for educating their patients and their families about preventing unintentional injuries in the future. When they arrived at the store they found the Safety Store team wearing green t-shirts with the hashtag #BeInjuryFree on the sleeve and they were greeted by signage acknowledging the day.

In addition to work in the Institution Injury Free Iowa City was out in the community. The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital Safe Sleep Task Force provided ten Graco Pack-n-Plays and Cribettes as well as matching tight-fitting sheets and safe sleep education in 4 different languages (English, Arabic, Swahili and French) to Johnson County Social Services on National Injury Prevention Day. Johnson County Social Services supports families with lower socio-economic status and this on-going project helps them in their efforts to provide safe sleep environments for the infant and toddler children of these families.

The Department of Transportation in Iowa also took part by posting Injury Prevention messages on interstate signs and the day ended the work of a variety of entities assisting with the lighting up local landmarks and buildings. These included: the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, the Iowa City Park Avenue Bridge, the Downtown Iowa City Pedestrian Mall Stage, the New Iowa City Public Works Building and the VGM Building in the Cedar Falls/Waterloo.

The need for the work done by Injury Free Iowa City was acknowledged by elected officials who provided special recognition of National Injury Prevention Day with Mayoral Proclamations signed by the mayors of Coralville, Iowa City, and Waterloo. Governor Kim Reynolds signed a Gubernatorial Proclamation for State of Iowa.

Jacksonville

In addition to participating in the National Injury Prevention Day twitter chat along with its institution's marketing department, Injury Free Jacksonville set up an Injury Prevention table to inform and educate hospital staff and patients about what the site does in the community. While at the table representatives handed out W.H.A.L.E. check sticker sheets, care hyperthermia prevention kits, childproofing kits, child abuse awareness pins, water watcher tags, activity books for school aged kids (bike/ped topics) and information about safe sleep. The site also visited its Mother/Baby unit and distributed childproofing kits and W.H.A.L.E. check stickers to all of the new moms.

W.H.A.L.E. stands for We Have A Little Emergency. It is a nationally recognized car seat ID kit program run by Fingerprint America. The kit contains medical information and emergency contact numbers attached to the back of the safety seat on the W.H.A.L.E. label. In the event the driver is unconscious or incapacitated, emergency first responders will have immediate life-saving information about that child on the label affixed to the back of the car seat such as next of kin. To participate two W.H.A.L.E. stickers are placed on the side of each car seat and two W.H.A.L.E. windows decals are placed on the lower back windows indicating to emergency personnel the program is in use.


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Kansas City

Injury Free Kansas City developed a partnership with over 20 agencies representing the city of Kansas City, area health departments, Head Start and Healthy Start agencies, hospitals, and Charlie's House, a house designed and dedicated to teaching home safety. Together the group organized and implemented Injury Free KC's National Injury Prevention Day plan. It welcomed about 60 individuals and helped them learn about fire prevention and how to keep kids safe at home using the Charlie's House home safety program demonstration as the anchor.

Kansas City Missouri Fire Department firefighters staffed the stations related to fire prevention in the laundry area, kitchen, outdoor/grill, garage, and falls prevention stations. Other injury prevention specialists from Charlie's House, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas Poison Control, Healthy Homes, Truman Medical Center, and Kids and Cars also shared tips to reduce risk of injury in children.

Support from Injury Free KC and Safe Kids Metro KC worked toward "Keeping Kids Safe in Kansas City Missouri Rental Homes from Fire" targeted 50 Head Start and Healthy Start families residing in high risk ZIP codes for residential homes and provided them fire extinguishers, dual smoke/CO detectors, and face masks in partnership with the KCFD.

In addition to the home safety efforts, there was outreach during the Coalition's Twitter Chat, and social media on Facebook, Instagram and with agency press releases.

The need for work done by Injury Free KC was acknowledged by a proclamation from the Mayor of Kansas City. It was also supported with the lighting of several landmarks in green including City Hall, Children's Mercy Hospital, Charlie's House, and Sporting Kansas City, MLS team.


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Little Rock

Injury Free Little Rock held a week-long social media push via Twitter; participated in the #BeInjuryFree Twitter chat on Nov. 18; installed an Injury Prevention Day window display in the Institution's Safety Zone area of the main hospital at Arkansas Children's in Little Rock. The team worked with the Marketing department and shot a Facebook Live on injury prevention through the Arkansas Children's Facebook page; passed out green Champions for Injury Prevention silicone bracelets at its campuses and clinics; pitched injury prevention stories to local media; worked with community stakeholders to share social media posts related to, "I'm wearing green today because..."; created a social media toolkit for the institution's executive leadership to use on Injury Prevention Day and shared injury prevention content in the institution's staff wide daily email. On the Monday before Injury Prevention Day and on actual day; Injury Free Arkansas had shared injury prevention blog posts on Arkansas Children's website. In addition, Injury Free Little Rock worked with local entities to shine a green light on area bridges.

Miami

Injury Free Miami rallied its Coalition members and worked with them to raise awareness within their organizations. In addition to raising awareness among the agencies and organizations with whom Injury Free Miami had previous relationships, the efforts for the day helped the site begin new relationships including one with The National Black Child Development Institute-Miami.

Milwaukee

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Injury Free Milwaukee's Injury Prevention Day Activities centered around social media. The site pushed Injury Prevention Day information on the Children's Wisconsin Facebook page and it participated in the Twitter chat.

Minneapolis

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Media played a major role in the efforts of Injury Free Minneapolis at Hennepin County Medical Center to raise awareness about the need for Injury Prevention. In addition to a 30 minute radio program, two television news stories and one other radio broadcast, the site created a website focused on Injury Prevention (www.hennepinhealthcare.org/injuryprevention), posted information in an internal newsletter on the subject matter and took part in the Coalition's one hour twitter chat. However, for Injury Free Minneapolis the day was about more than providing information. The site also pushed people to evaluate their own circumstances. It held a home safety contest asking people to email 5 steps they plan to take to make their home more safe. Five of those who participated were randomly selected to receive a $20 Target gift card. Injury Free Minneapolis at Hennepin County says when it comes to prevention messaging, the day helped build connections between its staff and families it serves.

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The Children's Hospital of Minneapolis used the day to raise awareness internally and they assisted in the effort to have a green light shine at Allianz Field, the home of Major League Soccer Minnesota United Team.

Nashville

Home safety and car seat safety were the subjects of four virtual classes used to raise awareness about injury prevention in Nashville. In addition to the classes, a "green out" took place in the Emergency Department where all faculty and staff were encouraged to wear green.

Twitter was a buzz days leading up to National Injury Prevention Day. Linked to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Children's Hospital and Safe Kids, injury prevention messages and information about the upcoming twitter chat was posted. In addition to those posts, the hospital updated its injury prevention website and added a Quick Reference code for the Emergency Department and parents to access Safety Tips. It also directed patients to places where they could get slap bracelets, reflectors, educational materials, Champ Cards, and coloring pages on that day. Age appropriate injury prevention information was also given out with discharge paperwork.

New York

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To observe National Injury Prevention Day, Injury Free New York at Presbyterian - Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital (CHONY) raised awareness about the need for injury prevention by shining a green light on the Leona Hemsley Building the night of November 18th. During the day, together with Injury Free at Maimonides Medical Center, CHONY coordinated several virtual injury prevention classes hosted by the Brooklyn Library. Speakers from the NY Fire Department, Consumer Product Safety, and the Department of Transportation and CHONY provided presentations on Winter and Holiday Safety. In addition the sites worked with Excellence Schools a network of Charter Schools in New York and they held a poster contest. Children with the best posters won a Gold, Silver, or Bronze award.

Orange County

Window Falls was the topic of focus for the Children's Hospital of Orange County during National Injury Prevention Day. Along with window stops, the site developed and distributed 500 Window safety Coloring Books in the Emergency Department and Primary Care Clinics. Window falls was also among the home safety topics discussed during a Children's Hospital of Orange County Blog. To raise awareness the site used green balloons to decorate a bridge that lead into hospital. Among the balloons were various themed balloons raising awareness of topics like helmet use, swimming, and motor vehicle safety. Each balloon had a fact about Injury prevention or the specific injury mechanism/prevention tip.

Palo Alto

Injury Free Palo Alto, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital of Stanford activities for Injury Prevention Day focused on used the internet as its main medium for raising awareness on National Injury Prevention Day. The site participated in the Coalition's Twitter Chat. In addition the hospital foundation posted on Facebook. However, the effort to raise awareness didn't end on November 18th. Because of COVID, a Child Passenger Safety event had to be rescheduled until December 5th.

The event helped the site to build a new partnership with a family serving organization in Santa Clara County, which is who we partnered with to provide their families with new car seats, pack n plays, home safety kits, and window locks, along with virtual education.

Peoria

OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois worked with the Illinois Department of Transportation and Crittenton Centers, a local community partner, to conduct a car seat check during pick-up hours at Crittenton Centers. A survey was sent ahead of time to parents who use Crittenton Centers for childcare to determine which families needed car seats or booster seats. Families that were without the appropriate child passenger safety seats were given the seat at the car seat check following education on the importance of using a child restraint, correct installation, how to properly buckle their child in the seat, and how to contact a certified technician if they need help.

Philadelphia

A coalition made up of internal St. Christopher's Hospital representatives and community partners was built new to promote National Injury Prevention Day. The group raised awareness both in and outside of the hospital walls.

Everyone was encouraged to wear green on Injury Prevention Day. Donations from the Burn Foundation, Herr's, and BeSmart helped provide injury prevention materials to fill 500 bags given to the outpatients and inpatients users of in the hospital. Additional funds from hospital administration went to purchase activity books and t-shirts. We were able to get the Ben Franklin Bridge, BoatHouse Row, the Ronald McDonald House, St. Christopher's, the PECO Building, Subaru Park, and the Lincoln Financial Field lit shined a green light. The efforts and the need were acknowledged in a Proclamation signed by the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia.

Participants put together tools that will continue to raise awareness throughout the year. The group created an Injury Prevention Website that includes injury prevention videos that were developed by nurses, social workers, chef medical directors, data analysts, injury prevention coordinators, research coordinators, and trauma manager. Additionally videos were provided by the Department of Transportation, Impact Teen Driving, CPSC, and BeSmart.


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Phoenix Children's Hospital worked to raise awareness both internally and externally through its Communications Representatives who took part in the National Injury Prevention Day Twitter Chat and posting information on other social media outlets like a hospital blog, an internal newsletter for Phoenix Children's Hospital employees and Facebook. A banner was displayed outside a hospital entrance and a pull up banner was displayed in the main hospital entrance. In addition, Injury prevention staff were encouraged to wear green shirts and the hospital shined a green light on National Injury Prevention Day.

Pittsburgh

Injury Free Pittsburgh raised awareness via the internet during the daylight hours of National Injury Prevention Day. The site took part in the hour long twitter chat, placed posts on other social media mediums and encouraged employees to wear green the institution communicated with its 60,000 employees using its "Yammer" media. Some of the most impressive efforts to raise awareness took place when the sun went down. Eleven buildings in Allegany County and four outside of the county shined green lights. Both The City of Pittsburgh and Allegany County acknowledged the importance of the efforts each with its own proclamations.

Portland

Injury Free Portland at Oregon Health and Science University Doembecher Children's Hospital participated in National Injury Prevention Day at several levels. In addition to the taking part in the National Twitter Chat and placing posts on Facebook, the site distributed Charlies Kids book "Sleep Baby, Safe and Snug" infants at the Children's Hospital, the OHSU Mother Baby Unit, OHSU Hillsboro Medical Center, and Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel and Legacy Emanuel Birth Unit. Each book was accompanied by a Safe Sleep bookmark.

Providence

Social media was a part of the Injury Free Providence Injury Prevention Day activities. The site took part in the ted in Twitter chat and used its social media platforms for messaging. It also developed and posted an electronic newsletter highlighting the day. The hospital staff was encouraged to wear green and green t-shirts made for injury prevention staff.

Young people and their families were also brought into the process when Injury Free Providence distributed 50 bags to families in the Pediatric Primary Care Clinic. Each bag was filled with home safety items and educational materials. In addition to the bags, 100 Sam the Safety Squirrel mascots were given to kids staying in hospital overnight. They were then treated to a special green rendition of Good Night Lights. On this night it was "a magic minute to brighten the spirits" of children in Hasbro Children's Hospital with a light show and green fireworks provided by a local restaurant. The Rhode Island State House also shined a green light that night.

Rochester

A newly developed department of family and community outreach at Golisano Children's Hospital helped strengthen the effort to raise awareness about the need to address Injuries on National Injury Prevention Day. An @injuryfreeoc twitter account was established and representatives from the site worked with an area high school to tweet the day and its efforts while the Hospital PR department tweeted on Injury Prevention issues and topics with information from Dr. Anne Brayer, the PI of Injury Free Rochester.

The Ford Street Bridge overlooking the Genesee River and Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong shined a green light at the end of the day.

St. Louis

Injury Free St. Louis worked with Missouri Safe Kids Coalitions and to develop a state wide task force coordinated public campaign to increase awareness about preventable childhood injuries. The site gave 150 home safety bags to families of patients under the age of 5. The bags included outlet covers, cabinet and drawer locks, bath thermometers and doorknob covers.

Green Be Injury Free shirts were given to all Joint Practice Partners to wear on Injury Prevention Day, but they weren't the only ones wearing green. Saint Louis Children's Hospital floors/units that care for injured patients were encouraged to wear green and send pictures of the staff. Those photos were posted throughout the day and the green didn't stop there. Injury Free St. Louis and its partners will delivered "green goodies" to unit floors. Among other things those goodies included green masks and treats.

Be Smart, an Injury Free St. Louis community partner will be handed out gun locks on Injury Prevention Day. They looped in community neighborhood partners to promote National Injury Prevention Day through community volunteers, their Facebook pages and through relationships with their churches and aldermen.

Awareness was also raised with several television news stories and newspaper articles.

KMOV television News ran a story about hospitals teaming up to raise awareness about injury the need for Injury Prevention and Introduced National Injury Prevention Day. The story covers Firearm Injuries, Home Safety and a Gun Lock Giveaway being done at St. Louis Children's. Link to story.

The FOX2 New Now Morning Program had Dr. Lindsay Clukies on as a guest where she was able to talk about the need for National Injury Day and share information about the most prevalent injuries in St. Louis and ways they can those injuries can be prevented. Link to story.

St. Louis Hospitals and the BSmart organization teamed up to spread the news about National Injury Prevention Day in the Webster-Kirkwood Times newspaper. It is an electronic and print paper with a circulation is over 38,000 for section of the paper. Link to story.

St. Louis Children's Hospital also made sure to acknowledge the need for Injury Prevention by highlighting topics and Dr. Clukies on their website. Link to story.

Injury Free St. Louis and Be Smart took part in the hour long twitter chat and their efforts and the need being addressed were acknowledged with a proclamation from the Mayor. Efforts of Injury Free St. Louis were also included in social media from St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Ferris Wheel, the Magic House, Science Center, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital and they all shined a green light.

San Diego

To raise awareness about National Injury Prevention Day posters announcing the day were placed outside the emergency department's door, at the main hospital entrance and in auxiliary buildings. Tip cards were provided to emergency department staff addressing the three leading causes of injury in San Diego: window falls, drowning and motor vehicles crashes. The staff were given green ribbons and parents were encouraged to ask health care provider about injury prevention for their children.

The site's Safety Kiosk was opened to offer parents educational materials on injury prevention. Information was also shared during the hour long national twitter chat and the hospital's communications team posted injury prevention across all social media platforms throughout the day. The site's community coalition members also shared posts regarding National Injury Prevention Day.

Seattle

Injury Free Seattle raised awareness about the need for Injury Prevention externally with Facebook posts, Instagram and twitter highlighting and internally the site used its institution's Scene Screens in the hospital and clinics to provide injury prevention messages from November 16th to the 20th. Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center also created a toolkit for Injury Day. The toolkit will focused on suicide prevention and safe storage of firearms. The center has partnered with Forefront, University of Washington's suicide prevention organization. You can find the toolkit here: https://hiprc.org/nipd/. Both Injury Free Seattle and the ICRC in Harborview took part in the National Injury Prevention Day Twitter Chat.

Tampa

On National Injury Prevention Day, Injury Free Tampa at Tampa General Children's Medical Center provided team members with green buttons that said "Ask me why I wear green!" Answers to the question and photos were placed in the hospital's portal along with information about the day. Kendra Scott Jewelry Company's local store donated 20 percent of its proceeds to Injury Free Tampa that day.

The site took part in the National Twitter chat.

Worcester

Facebook played a major role in Injury Free Worcester's effort to raise awareness of the need for Injury Prevention on National Injury Prevention day. There were several Facebook Live Injury Prevention Segments including: Mayor Joseph Petty reading the proclamation recognizing the work of Injury Free Worcester, Dr Michael Hirsh discussing gun buybacks, a nurse discussing fall prevention and a car seat tech discussing car seat safety. Five people who shared and tagged others in the post won $100 amazon gift cards. A "Health Watch" video featuring Dr Hirsh talking about National IP Day was on a local cable channel and online. Buildings on campus shined a green light as did an area bridge.

 

Contact

E. Lenita Johnson, Communications Director
Injury Free Coalition for Kids
estelljohnson@sbcglobal.net
816-651-7777