June 2024
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Monthly Spotlight: Something to Keep Your Eye On!
Resource Spotlight: Fireworks Safety
Summer is the season of outdoor celebrations. While fireworks are commonly used to celebrate summer holidays, they cause thousands of injuries every year. Keep your celebrations memorable, fun, and safer this year by leaving the fireworks to the professionals. According to the National Fire Protection Association, the only safe way to view fireworks is by attending a professional show. Stay in the summer spirit without putting your family at risk with safer alternatives like glow sticks, noise makers, silly string, and summer treats. Click here to learn more!
Happy Pride: Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth
June is a month dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and acknowledging the disparities and challenges they face. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, although "LGBTQ+ youth are coming of age in the setting of increased LGBTQ+ rights and visibility, they remain vulnerable to higher rates of negative mental health outcomes." As parents and caregivers, it's important to let the LGBTQ+ youth in your life know you have their back.
To honor Pride Month, we're connecting our membership with some resources on LGBTQ+ mental health and the role injury prevention can play in the lives of these youth. Check out the following resources to learn more:
Mental Health in LGBTQ+ Youth: Pediatric Mental Health Minute Series
Injury and Violence Disparities between LGBQ+ and Heterosexual Youth
For more information on youth suicide prevention, learn from our toolkit!
Social Media Calendar
We are excited to release the second half (July - December) of our 2024 Social Media Calendars. Both versions contain a list of Prevent Child Injury’s weekly social media topics and links to existing toolkits.
As an extra benefit, the calendar version includes a more complete list of injury prevention public health observances and outreach campaigns. We ask that you join us in our efforts by using your social media accounts to discuss the same weekly topics.
Coming Up
On Our Social Media Calendar
June 3 - June 9: Firearm Safety
June 10 - June 16: Summer Camp Safety
June 17 - June 23: National Safety Month
June 24 - June 30: Fireworks Safety
July 1 - July 7: Sun Safety
Events
Event: National Safety Month
Hosted by: National Safety Council
Date: June 1 - 30, 2024
Join the National Safety Council in June for National Safety Month – the annual observance to help keep each other safe from the workplace to anyplace. Since 1996, NSM has provided a month’s worth of free safety resources to highlight leading causes of preventable injury and death. Let’s work together to make people safer this June and all year long!
Event: CPR & AED Awareness Week
Hosted by: American Heart Association
Date: June 1 - 7, 2024
June 1-7 each year is National CPR and AED Awareness Week, spotlighting how lives can be saved if more Americans know CPR and how to use an AED.
Webinar: Preventing substance misuse among LGBTQIA+ youth
Hosted by: Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
Date/Time: June 5, 2024, 1 - 2 p.m. ET
Details & Registration
Is your coalition successfully engaging and supporting queer youth in your drug prevention efforts? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQIA+) teens are two times as likely to be bullied, excluded, or even assaulted at school and within their community. Unfortunately, they’re also nearly 40 percent less likely to have an adult in their circle to whom they can turn. Thus, it’s no surprise that they are twice as likely to experiment with drugs and alcohol. Tune into this webinar to learn more about how to support LGBTQIA+ youth.
Event: Wear Orange Weekend
Hosted by: Everytown for Gun Safety
Date: June 7-9, 2024
Join Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Wear Orange Weekend, a way to honor survivors and build community with those working to end gun violence.
Webinar: Share-My-Screen Series: Design
Hosted by: Center for Injury Research, Translation, & Communication
Date: June 13, 2024, 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. ET
Details & Registration
Join CIRTC for a new series of live, monthly trainings to help researchers and public health professionals learn the communications skills they need for today’s working environment. For the first series, CIRTC will focus on the basics of design and show you exactly how to use programs like Canva and PowerPoint to create actionable, accessible visuals and presentations that look great too.