#StayAtHomeSafety Twitter.png
 

COVID-19 #StayAtHomeSafety Campaign

As the country and the world take on the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and caregivers need our help. With schools, businesses, and public places closing, children are spending more time in the home under circumstances that include altered routines, gaps in supervision, and stress. These conditions put children at increased risk for injury in the home. #StayAtHomeSafety focuses on protecting children from preventable injuries and helps parents and caregivers understand why preventing injury is especially important in the midst of a national emergency. 

Prevent Child Injury thanks the many organizations and individuals who have stepped up to help our communities keep safe. By working together, we can use our expertise to mitigate the collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

While we update this page frequently, we encourage you to become a member to receive our newsletters. Our newsletter goes out each month, and each edition covers a different safety topic. Topics we have addressed include:

  • Window safety

  • Preventing falls in the home

  • Youth sports safety

  • Home playgrounds

  • Bicycle & helmet safety

  • Swimming pool & portable pool safety

  • Sun safety

  • Preventing poisonings in the home

In addition to addressing important safety topics, our newsletter features shareable materials and a list of events including webinars, summits, and other learning opportunities that our members can benefit from. If you or your organization would like us to announce or promote your work in our newsletter, please send us an email.

Take Action

Every month, we are promoting a new action that each family can take to keep their children safer. This month, we want every family to save the Poison Help Hotline number in cell phones and post it visibly near home phones: 1-800-222-1222. If you suspect your child has ingested or been exposed to a poison, call the Poison Help Hotline right away. The Poison Help Hotline specialists answer questions and provide advice free of charge.

 
Screen Shot 2021-03-18 at 1.06.34 PM.png
 

Social Media

Promote #StayAtHomeSafety on your timeline with these sample posts.

Resources

Home Safety Websites

COVID-19 Information

Screen+Shot+2020-03-24+at+2.29.33+PM.jpeg
 

Home Safety Activities

Home Safety Apps

Injury Prevention Actions

Keeping children safe requires action. While sometimes this might seem overwhelming, it can be done one step at a time. A partner organization put together some ideas for quick ways you can make your home safer. These tasks are easy to do and can be completed in less than 15 minutes.

Click on each image to learn more about the action. Each action has an accompanying Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram graphic. Save and share with your audience!

Twitter Chat

We want to thank every individual and organization that participated in our #StayAtHomeSafety Twitter chat. The chat was extremely successful - check out these metrics! We reached over 7.6 million people and had nearly 20.6 million timeline deliveries, and we could not have done it without all of you.

Questions & Answers

We know that a lot of you weren’t able to join us for the chat, so we created a document that shows the questions we asked and some of the responses we got from the experts! This is a great resource that can be shared with your audience.

StayAtHomeSafety%20Recap.png

Graphics

So many organizations shared great graphics with us over the course of the chat, and we thought it would be helpful to share them with you! These graphics can be saved and shared with your audience.

Who We Are

Prevent Child Injury is a coalition of injury prevention experts, medical and public health professionals, safety advocates, and many others who care for children. Through research translation and health communication strategies, we help our members reach their communities with timely, relevant injury prevention messages. Our toolkits put resources from trusted partners all in one place so you don’t have to spend a lot of time finding materials for your audience. Membership is completely free.