October 2024
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Monthly Spotlight: Something to Keep Your Eye On!
Organization Spotlight: Trainees for Child Injury Prevention
Trainees for Child Injury Prevention was created in 2021 to bring together the next generation of child safety advocates. With a new cohort each year, T4CIP connects medical students, residents, and fellows to develop outreach materials and strategies for two one-day national advocacy campaigns.
The cohort spends the year learning from injury prevention and health communication experts about the ins and outs of child safety advocacy and the importance of community engagement. From social media outreach to morning reports, noon conferences, grand rounds, community clinics, and more, trainees use the Day of Action to collaborate with their peers, training programs, and institutions to share information and raise awareness.
Join T4CIP for their upcoming #RulesForTheRoad Day of Action about teen driving safety on October 23, 2024 by posting on social media, using their shareable graphics, joining the webinar from 12-1 p.m. ET, or participating in their #RulesForTheRoad X Chat from 3-4 p.m. ET. Stay connected to T4CIP by following them on X, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and visiting http://bit.ly/T4CIP.
Teen Driving Toolkit
You are your child’s best role model. There is no question that parents and caregivers are important sources for creating safe teenage drivers who respect the rules of the road. With National Teen Driving Safety Week approaching, our new teen driving safety toolkit encourages parents and caregivers to keep talking to teens about safe driving, even after they get their license. The toolkit contains a press release, a newsletter/blog article, social media posts, graphics, suggested alt text, an image selection guide, a Pinterest board, a fact sheet, and links to additional resources which provide more information about teen driving safety.
www.PreventChildInjury.org/Toolkits/Teen-Driving
The coordinated outreach week for this toolkit is October 20 - 26, 2024, which coincides with NHTSA’s National Teen Driving Safety Week. During the outreach week, Prevent Child Injury will be co-hosting a #RulesForTheRoad Webinar with Trainees for Child Injury Prevention on October 23 from 12-1 p.m. ET, click here to register: https://bit.ly/RulesForTheRoadWebinar.
Share-My-Screen Webinar Series: Accessibility
Accessibility is like the blueberries in a muffin: it’s easier to put the berries in the muffin batter than try to jam them inside the muffin once it’s baked. When you build accessibility into your communications right from the start, you can reach your audience more effectively and make your content engaging and understandable for everyone. Whether you’re new to accessibility or a seasoned pro, come learn about accessibility options for PowerPoint, Canva, and social media.
Oct 10: PowerPoint accessibility
Nov 14: Canva accessibility
Dec 12: Accessibility for social media
Registration: www.bit.ly/SMS-Accessibility
Coming Up
On Our Social Media Calendar
Sept. 30 - Oct. 6: SIDS and Safe Sleep Awareness Month
Oct. 7 - Oct. 13: Fire Prevention*
Oct. 14 - Oct. 20: Health Literacy Month
Oct. 21 - Oct. 27: National Teen Driver Safety Week
Oct. 28 - Nov. 3: Halloween Prep & Pedestrian Safety
Nov. 4 - Nov. 10: Winter School Sports (Basketball, Hockey, Swimming & Diving, Gymnastics, etc.)
*New social media content available!
Events
Event: SIDS and Safe Sleep Awareness Month
Date: October 1 - 31, 2024
In October and beyond, infant caregivers and service and health care providers can join Safe to Sleep® and its partners to encourage safe infant sleep and help raise awareness about ways to reduce the risk of SIDS.
Event: National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
Date: October 1 - 31, 2024
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month is a time to highlight the vital role of substance abuse prevention in both individual and community health, to remember those who have lost their lives to substance abuse, and to acknowledge those in recovery, as well as children, parents, family, and friends supporting them.
Event: Eye Injury Prevention Month
Date: October 1 - 31, 2024
The American Academy of Ophthalmology sets aside the month of October for a public health awareness campaign aimed at preventing eye injuries. According to the AAO nearly 2.5 million people suffer eye injuries each year in the United States and nearly half of all those types of injuries occur in the home, and nearly one million people have lost some degree of vision as a result.
Event: Health Literacy Month
Date: October 1 - 31, 2024
For more than 20 years, October has been recognized as Health Literacy Month. Join the Institution for Healthcare Advancement for this international observance when hospitals, health centers, literacy programs, libraries, social service agencies, businesses, professional associations, government agencies, consumer alliances, and many other groups work together to integrate and expand the mission of health literacy.
Event: Fire Prevention Week
Date: October 6 - 12, 2024
Join the National Fire Protection Association October 6-12 for Fire Prevention Week. This year’s FPW campaign, “Smoke alarms: Make them work for you!™” strives to educate everyone about the importance of having working smoke alarms in the home.
Event: National Walk & Roll to School Day
Date: October 9, 2024
Walk & Roll to School Day is an annual event that involves communities from across the country (and globe!) walking and rolling to school on the same day. It began in 1997 as a one-day event. Today, thousands of schools across America—from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico—participate every October. Over time, this celebration has become part of a movement for year-round safe routes to school. Join the movement!
Event: Safe Sleep Summit
Date: October 18-19, 2024
The Safe Sleep Summit is a convening of multidisciplinary partners working to create a roadmap to combat the inequities that contribute to unsafe infant sleep. By bringing together academic partners, community activists, manufacturers, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, the Summit will advance collaboration and strive to identify new approaches and tools to provide families across all communities the opportunity to keep their infants safe during sleep.
Event: National Teen Driver Safety Week
Date: October 20-26, 2024
A teen’s inexperience behind the wheel makes them more susceptible to crashes, so including teen safety messaging in a traffic safety communication plan is important. Teen Driver Safety Week is October 20–26, 2024 – a good opportunity to increase safety messaging across all platforms.
Event: National School Bus Safety Week
Date: October 21-25, 2024
Held during the third full week of October each year, National School Bus Safety Week is an active and evolving public education program and an excellent way for parents, students, teachers, motorists, school bus operators, school administrators, and other interested parties - to join forces and address the importance of school bus safety. Designed to promote school bus safety, school districts throughout the country observe School Bus Safety Week.
Webinar: #RulesForTheRoad Teen Driving Safety Webinar
Date/Time: October 23, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
This webinar is part of T4CIP's Teen Driving Safety Day of Action and Prevent Child Injury's Teen Driver Safety Outreach Week. Details & Registration