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Home Safe Home
Store: In partnership with several social service
agencies, SAFE KIDS is distributing vouchers for low-income families to
receive up to five FREE home safety items to help them child proof their
home. Individual education and demonstration are provided on how to
use the items provided.
Playground Safety: The coalition helps
to sponsor yearly playground maintenance trainings. This training
provides professionals and others the opportunity to learn how to maintain
safe community and local playgrounds. The ABC’s of Playground Safety
(training programs) is also provided to school personnel as well as
daycare providers.
Bicycle Safety: Working with the Bucks County
Community Traffic Safety and the Department of Health, the coalition
provides educational wheeled safety programs and also sponsors bicycle and
wheeled sports derbies.Bicycle helmets are provided to children who need
them during all of these events.
Poison Prevention: During the month of March,
members of the coalition provide free poison education programs to
pre-school and school age children.
Sports Safety: Working with the American Red
Cross, the Department of Health and St. Mary Medical Center, the coalition
offers CPR and first aid trainings, provides AED’s to local youth
organizations, provides dehydration education to athletes and sponsors
injury prevention sports clinics.
Smoke Detector Program: Working with the county
fire departments, the coalition assists in the door-to-door smoke detector
initiative.
Cribs for Kids: This is the newest initiative
of the coalition. The coalition is working with social service
agencies and concerned individuals to promote safe sleeping within the
family.
Community Events: The coalition attends numerous
community-based events with the intention of providing education and to
promote safe environments for children.
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