August 2023
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As hot temperatures blaze and school activities start, there is a lot to talk about in the injury prevention space! Read on for what to expect in the next couple of weeks.
Resource Spotlight: U.S. National Water Safety Action Plan
On June 29, 2023, the first ever U.S. National Water Safety Action Plan (USNWSAP) was launched. The USNWSAP's vision is for a county where everyone is safe in, on, and around the water and the 10-year plan lays out how we start to get there. The Plan is a national roadmap for collective action to reduce drowning, providing a framework and tools to support the development and implementation of data- and evidence-informed context-specific water safety action plans in communities, counties, and states across the country.
The call to action is aimed at everyone in the water safety and drowning prevention communities, including aquatics professionals, public health and safety professionals, policymakers, researchers, advocates, families, and manufacturers, challenging them to work together to ensure more effective action to increase water safety and prevent drowning.
Among the tools are 99 evidence-informed action recommendations developed over the last number of years with input of hundreds of experts from across the country and a 12-step Reflection to Action process to support action plan development.
To learn more about the USNWSAP visit www.watersafetyusa.org/nwsap and download your copy today!
Coming Up
On Our Twitter Calendar
July 31 - Aug. 6: Carbon Monoxide Awareness
Aug. 7 - 13: Stop on Red Week
Aug. 14 - 20: Back to School Safety
Aug. 21 - 27: Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
Aug. 28 - Sept. 3: Fall Prevention
Sept. 4 - 10: Baby Safety Month
Events
Event: Carbon Monoxide (CO) Safety Summit
Date: July 31 - August 2, 2023
Hosted by: National Carbon Monoxide Awareness Association
Join the National Carbon Monoxide Awareness Association from July 31 to August 2, 2023, for the Carbon Monoxide (CO) Safety Summit.The safety summit will focus on education, research, case studies, data, new technologies, and best practices. You can register for the event here.
Event: Children's Eye Health & Safety Month
Date: August 1-31, 2023
Hosted by: Prevent Blindness
Prevent Blindness has declared August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month in an effort to educate parents and caregivers on ways to keep children’s eyes healthy. As many kids are headed back to school in the month of August, Prevent Blindness offers free resources including fact sheets and social media graphics in English and Spanish, toolkits, and webpages on a variety of topics.
Event: 2023 Child Safety Learning Collaborative Cohort 1 Application Informational Webinar (options 1, 2, and 3)
Date: Aug. 8, Aug. 23, Sept. 14, 2023
Hosted by: Children's Safety Network
Children's Safety Network (CSN) will be hosting three optional webinars (you need only attend one) that provide information about applying for the first cohort of the 2023 Child Safety Learning Collaborative (CSLC).
This fall, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), in cooperation with CSN, is launching the first cohort of the CSLC for state and jurisdiction Title V agencies. The CSLC is a unique opportunity to join a national network of peers addressing high priority child safety and injury prevention issues. Participating states and jurisdictions receive targeted support and guidance on evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies, how to use quality improvement tools and approaches and the opportunity to share resources, ideas and innovations with peers.
Applications for Cohort 1 (December 2023-May 2025) will be available beginning August 1 and will close on September 27.
Event: Prevent Child Abuse America National Conference
Date: August 22 - 24, 2023
Hosted by: Prevent Child Abuse America
Join Prevent Child Abuse America for the 2023 Prevent Child Abuse America National Conference. It will examine innovative programs and practices, family-focused policies, cutting-edge research, and public awareness and engagement strategies, and provide the latest thinking to help drive the field toward upstream prevention so that every child has the opportunity to grow up safe and nurtured.
Webinar: Their stories are so powerful: Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion
Date: August 23, 2023
Hosted by: National Institute for Children's Health Quality
This webinar will highlight findings from a recent NICHQ-led study, Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion: a qualitative study published in BMC Public Health where researchers addressed two questions: (1) What are the areas that community-level organizations need support to serve their population’s needs around safe sleep and breastfeeding? (2) What tools or resources could assist them in improving their work promoting safe sleep and breastfeeding?
Implications for safe sleep and breastfeeding policies and education will be discussed. Community partners will share their experiences leading and implementing activities. Click here to register.
Event: International Overdose Awareness Day
Date: August 31, 2023
International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died from overdose, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.
The IOAD 2023 theme “Recognizing those people who go unseen” is about acknowledging people in our communities who are affected by overdose but might go unseen in the crisis. Learn more about the 2023 campaign here.
Webinar: Preventing and Addressing Teen Dating Violence: Dating Matters Prevention Model and Rape Prevention Education
Date: September 6, 2023
Hosted by: Children's Safety Network
In this webinar, Dr. Sarah DeGue, Senior Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will talk about the Dating Matters initiative, CDC’s comprehensive teen dating violence prevention model. This evidence-based model includes prevention strategies for individuals, peers, families, schools, and neighborhoods, and focuses on teaching 11–14-year-olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating. Click here to register.