May 2024
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Monthly Spotlight: Something to Keep Your Eye On!
Event Spotlight: International Water Safety Day
May 15 is International Water Safety Day. Sponsored by the International Water Safety Foundation (IWSF), Water Safety Day is designed to help spread global awareness of the ongoing drowning pandemic and educate the youth in becoming safer in and around water. In recognition of International Water Safety Day, the National Drowning Prevention Alliance has released its 2024 Water Safety Season Toolkit to help guide your injury prevention outreach efforts. Throughout the month of May, share drowning prevention information and water safety tips with the communities you serve using the hashtag #ISWD2024. Check out these resources to learn more about drowning prevention:
Join in our #BikeSafety outreach week!
As children get older, bikes provide the opportunity to get outside and explore, experience a bit of freedom, and spend time with friends. When they’re ready to venture out of the driveway and into the street, as their parent or caregiver, it’s important that you help them understand how to share the road safely. Our new bike safety toolkit educates parents and caregivers on how to set kids up to have fun and stay safer out on their bikes. The toolkit contains a newsletter/blog article, sample social media posts, graphics, suggested alt text, a Pinterest board, and links to additional resources that provide more information about bike safety.
The coordinated outreach week for this toolkit is THIS week, May 6 - 12, 2024. If you haven’t done so already, please add bike safety to your social media plans for the week. Feel free to share this toolkit with colleagues and friends who are interested in injury prevention!
Toolkit link: https://www.preventchildinjury.org/toolkits/bike-safety
Coming Up
On Our Social Media Calendar
May 6 - May 12: Outreach Week: Bicycle Safety
May 13 - May 19: Water Safety
May 20 - May 26: Child Passenger Safety
May 27 - June 2: Children's Mental Health
June 3 - June 9: Firearm Safety
Events
Event: National Bike Safety Month
Date: May 1 - 31, 2024
May is National Bicycle Safety Month. Join the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s safety initiative to educate the public about the importance of bicycle safety and encourage more people to ride safely and wear helmets.
Event: National Child Passenger Safety Technician Month
Hosted by: Safe Kids Worldwide
Date: May 1 - 31, 2024
Safe Kids Worldwide is delighted to celebrate its seventh annual National Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) month this May! It is a time to celebrate the over 43,000 technicians who serve the community every day, educating families about how to travel safely.
Event: National Water Safety Month
Date: May 1 - 31, 2024
National Water Safety Month highlights water awareness and swim safety through educational programs, public service announcements, governmental proclamations, dealer and business promotions, and easy-to-access water safety materials.
Event: Mental Health Month
Date: May 1 - 31, 2024
The world is constantly changing – for better or for worse – and it can be overwhelming to deal with everything going on around you. While society is getting more comfortable discussing mental health, it can still be hard to know “Where to Start” when it comes to taking care of your own well-being. This May, Mental Health America will help you:
LEARN how modern life affects mental health with new resources to navigate our changing world.ACT by building your coping toolbox so you can manage stress, difficult emotions, and challenging situations.ADVOCATE to improve mental health for yourself, your friends and family, and your community.
Event: Bike & Roll to School Day
Date: May 8, 2024
Strap on your helmet and lace up your shoes. National Bike & Roll to School Day is May 8, 2024, and registration is now open.
Webinar: Share-My-Screen Series: Design
Hosted by: Center for Injury Research, Translation, & Communication
Date: May 9, 2024, 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. ET
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. Click here for details & registration.
Event: International Water Safety Day
Hosted by: International Water Safety Foundation
Date: May 15, 2024
International Water Safety Day is designed to help spread global awareness of the ongoing drowning pandemic, and educate the youth in becoming safer in and around water. May 15th is a day to spread drowning awareness and water safety education by any means possible.
Event: National Safe Boating Week
Date: May 18 - 25, 2024
National Safe Boating Week is held annually the week before Memorial Day as part of the National Safe Boating Council's Safe Boating Campaign, a global awareness effort that encourages boaters to make the most of their boating adventure by being responsible.
Event: EMS Week
Date: May 20 - 26, 2024
Each year, National EMS Week recognizes and thanks EMS clinicians for their life-saving work on the frontlines of our health care system.
Event: #CheckBeforeYouChange Child Passenger Safety Day of Action
Hosted by: Trainees for Child Injury Prevention
Date: May 22, 2024
Join T4CIP for their #CheckBeforeYouChange Child Passenger Safety Day of Action on May 22, 2024. The campaign will focus on educating parents and caregivers about the importance of having their child in the right car seat, and what to check before they're ready to change to the next one. Participate in the Day of Action by joining the X Chat from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET, watching the webinar from 2 - 3 p.m. ET, or posting with the #CheckBeforeYouChange hashtag on May 22. Follow T4CIP on Instagram and X for more details!
Event: Healthy and Safe Swimming Week
Hosted by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Date: May 22 - 28, 2024
Swimming is a fun, healthy way to stay physically active and spend quality time with family and friends. Healthy and Safe Swimming Week highlights the roles that swimmers, caregivers, aquatics and beach staff, residential pool owners, and public health officials play in preventing disease outbreaks, drowning, and pool chemical injuries.
Event: National Don't Fry Day
Date: May 24, 2024
To help reduce rising rates of skin cancer from overexposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun, the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention has designated the Friday before Memorial Day as “Don’t Fry Day” to encourage sun safety awareness and to remind everyone to protect their skin while enjoying the outdoors.