WCAAP Injury Prevention Resources
The WCAAP promotes and supports injury prevention efforts throughout our state. Below are lists of local, state, national and international resources for both providers and parents:
National AAP Resources
TIPP
TIPP is an educational program for parents of children newborn through 12 years of age to help prevent common injuries. TIPP provides age related safety counseling sheets.
Connected Kids
Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure offers child healthcare providers a comprehensive, logical approach to integrating violence prevention efforts in practice and the community.
Local Resources
King County | Injury and Violence Prevention
Public Health - Seattle & King County's Violence and Injury Prevention Unit focuses on a number of critical yet entirely preventable health issues including deaths and injuries from motor vehicle crashes, firearms, and drownings.
206.263.8160.
Spokane Regional Health District | Injury Prevention Program
Health educators work to prevent injuries among children, adults and seniors. Priorities include: child passenger safety, pedestrian and bicycle safety, senior falls prevention, suicide prevention, and highway traffic safety projects.
509.324.1530.
| Safe Kids Benton-Franklin Benton-Franklin Health District 509.460.4246 |
Safe Kids Blue Mountain Providence St. Mary Medical Center 509.529.8929 |
| Safe Kids Chelan.Douglas Douglas County Fire 509.664.4032 |
Safe Kids Clark County Vancouver Police Department 360.487.7505 |
| Safe Kids Grant Grant County Health District 509.766.7960 |
Safe Kids King County - South Mary Bridge Children's Health Center 253.372.7729 |
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Safe Kids Kittitas |
Safe Kids Lower Columbia Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office 360.414.7569 |
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Safe Kids Pacific (no link available) |
Safe Kids Pierce County Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center 253.403.7911 |
| Safe Kids Seattle Harborview Medical Center 206.744.9474 |
Safe Kids Skagit County |
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Safe Kids Snohomish County |
Safe Kids Spokane |
| Safe Kids Thurston County Child Care Action Council 360.786.8907 |
Safe Kids Whatcom Whatcom County Fire District No. 7 360.384.0303 |
Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative
Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative works by identifying and helping young people who are at a vulnerable point in their lives.
Driven to Distractions Taskforce
A group of Washington citizens concerned about the growing rate of distracted driving on the roads of our state.
State Resources
Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center
LOK-IT-UP
Many guns are stored unsafely. Locking up firearms can greatly reduce unwanted access and safe lives. LOK-IT-UP encourages the safe storage of firearms.
Safe Kids Washington State
Washington State Health Department
360.236.2861
Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
WCSAP is a membership agency comprised of individuals and organizations dedicated to ending sexual assault in their communities. WCSAP's mission is to unite agencies engaged in the elimination of sexual violence through education, advocacy, victim services, and social change.
Washington State Booster Seat Coalition
Washington State Department of Health: Injury & Violence Prevention Program
The Injury and Violence Prevention Program develops and maintains programs designed to reduce injuries.
Washington State Drowning Prevention Network
Washington State Safety Restraint Coalition
Washington Traffic Safety Commission
The mission of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission is to reduce deaths and serious injuries resulting from motor vehicle collisions by implementing programs designed to address driver behaviors through coordinated efforts of federal, state and local agencies.
Washington Youth Suicide Prevention Program
The YSPP mission is to reduce youth suicide attempts and deaths in Washington State.
National Resources
After the Injury – Traumatic Stress & Coping
Information for patients and health care practitioners based on a growing body of research about children and parents' reactions to pediatric injury and other medical events.
CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
CDC | Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice
American Public Health Association | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section
A national forum for all professionals committed to the control of violence and unintentional injuries, and to the delivery of emergency health care services.
Children’s Safety Network
The Children's Safety Network (CSN) is a national resource center for the prevention of childhood injuries and violence.
Home Safety Council
The Home Safety Council is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing home related injuries.
Injury Free Coalition for Kids
KidsAndCars.org
KidsAndCars.org is a national nonprofit child safety organization dedicated to preventing injuries and death to children in or around motor vehicles including backovers, power-window injuries and heat-related injury among children left unattended in vehicles.
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
The National Center’s mission is to educate and train parents and professionals, and to conduct research that will prevent the shaking and abuse of infants in the United States.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Distracted Driving
National Safety Council: Teen Driving
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of teen fatalities, accounting for 38% of all teen deaths in the United States.
National Youth Violence Prevention Center
A Federal resource for communities working to prevent violence committed by and against young people. The mission of the NYVPRC is to provide key leaders in communities—local government leaders and community leaders—with dynamic resources to help support their efforts to plan, develop, implement and evaluate effective youth violence prevention efforts.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) is a national clearinghouse for information about health and safety, engineering, advocacy, education, enforcement, access, and mobility for pedestrians (including transit users) and bicyclists
Recalls.gov
To provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to create www.recalls.gov, a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls.
Safe Routes to School
Safe Routes to School programs enable community leaders, schools and parents across the United States to improve safety and encourage more children, including children with disabilities, to safely walk and bicycle to school.
Safe Kids USA
Safe Kids USA is a nationwide network of organizations working to prevent unintentional childhood injury, the leading cause of death and disability for children ages 1 to 14.
International Resources
TEACH-VIP
TEACH-VIP e-learning is an online self-paced curriculum in violence and injury prevention, designed for health and public professionals and other health care providers. TEACH-VIP addresses a broad range of issues pertinent to understanding and preventing injuries, violence, and suicide. It includes extensive content on using data to understanding injury problems and creating programs to address these problems.
SafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature
The online source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention. Curated and fully searchable database of injury related scientific abstracts.