IFCK Philadelphia has recently partnered with the Community Nursing Advocacy Fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to enhance the education of nurses in the clinical setting by incorporating their skills with the outreach work of our site, in addition to encouraging the nurses to effectively advocate for not only an individual child and family, but as well as all children in the community. [more]

RESIDENCY ADVOCACY TOURS: Exploring West Philadelphia’s community treasures, resources, and historical experiences. For the past 18 months, Delores Capers, Assistant Project Coordinator, has been conducting tours throughout West and Southwest Philadelphia to CHOP residency physicians and most recently for nurses in the Nursing Advocacy Fellowship Program. [more]

Keep updated with all of Injury Free Philadelphia's presentation and conference posters. View our posters for ideas, education, and information, and don't hesitate to contact us with any questions. [more]

Recently, IFCK Philadelphia's Delores Capers was featured with many prominent members of our West Philadelphia community during a celebration event designed to draw positive attention to restaurants that encourage healthy eating along parts of the commercial corridor located along 52nd Street. [more]

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Here is an archive of IFCK Philadelphia's quarterly newsletter distributed throughout the West Philadelphia community.

• Safety Newz, Volume 3, Page 1
• Safety Newz, Volume 3, Page 2
• Safety Newz, Volume 2, Page 1
• Safety Newz, Volume 2, Page 2
• Safety Newz, Volume 1, Page 1
• Safety Newz, Volume 1, Page 2
• Home and Safe -- Injury Free Philadelphia Newsletter, Fall 2002
• Home and Safe -- Injury Free Philadelphia Newsletter, May 2002

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The Helmets for High Risk Riders program has been a signature helmet safety activity of IFCK Philadelphia since 2000. Through this program, children who come to the Hospital emergency department as a result of an injury while cycling, skate boarding, or scootering receive a personally fitted helmet as well as developmentally appropriate education on safe riding and playing strategies. In the summer of 2002, David Holtzman added a survey to the program to collect information on the attitudes children and their parents have about helmet use, and nonuse. [more]

On the night of February 5 the Injury Free Coalition for Kids (IFCK) of Philadelphia displayed the photographs of participants in Camera Club this past fall during the Bartram Beacon Open House. The Photo Exhibit was a success with a large turnout for the Open House and many praises from kids, parents, and community officials for the kids' photos. Be sure to check out the Camera Club page under the Programs section of IFCK Philly's site. Camera Club is gearing up to begin again with another group of kids and some of last fall's "graduates" helping us out also. Keep checking in to our web site for updated Camera Club news and photos. [more]

The Injury Free Coalition for Kids (IFCK) of Philadelphia is embarking on a new community intervention with Drs. Evaline Alessandrini, Fran Nadel, Elizabeth Alpern, and Sarah Moerschel of Children's Hospital Emergency Department to improve basic medical care for West Philadelphia's children by educating their parents about common childhood illnesses and injuries and the appropriate course of action. The intervention, Caring for Kids: Illnesses and Injuries, is being developed as a result of research by Dr. Alessandrini indicating that West Philadelphia mothers often use emergency departments (EDs) for non-urgent illnesses and injuries that might better be treated in a primary care setting or home. [more]

Modeled after the Shoot with Cameras not Guns program of IFCK Los Angeles, IFCK Philadelphia has developed a Camera Club that is going to be working with 3rd and 4th graders at the Bartram Beacon After School Program in West Philadelphia. [more]

Over the past three and a half years, the Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Philadelphia has distributed safety helmets to children of West Philadelphia through two avenues. Children brought to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for a bicycle-related injury (or other wheeled-vehicle-related injury such as rollerblades- or scooter-related) are identified, educated on the effectiveness of helmets and safe riding behaviors, and provided with a fitted helmet. Recently, this program, called Helmets for High Risk Riders, has expanded to provide an even more effective system of identifying and intervening with eligible children by involving nurses as educators and helmet providers. Since 2000, over 400 children injured while riding a bicycle, scooter, or rollerblades have received a helmet before going home through Helmets for High Risk Riders. [more]

In collaboration with the Division of Emergency Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, IFCK Philadelphia conducted a randomized clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of an emergency department based home safety intervention on knowledge and practices related to home safety. [more]