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Kidsafe Highlights & Awards

Kidsafe Alberta Highlights and Awards

  • Created an implementation guide for A Million Messages, 2006.
  • Partnered with Population Health and Community Health Services to create a social marketing campaign focusing on safe teen driving, 2006.
  • Expanded A Million Messages to satellite sites throughout Capital Health region (North East Community Health Centre, Grey Nuns, and Royal Alexandra Hospital), 2006.
  • Lead organization in developing, implementing, and evaluating Getting Into Gear: Keys To Starting Your Driving Experience; a provincial junior high resource addressing risk management, GDL, L.E.A.R.N. and parent/teen contracts, 2006. Resource approved by Alberta Education for Health and Lifeskills (grades 7-9) and Career and Life Management (grades 10-12).
  • Expanded A Million Messages throughout the Stollery Children's Hospital with information posted in all In-patient Units, Ambulatory Clinic treatment rooms, Cardiac Clinics, Emergency Department treatment rooms, and the Edmonton Public School classroom, 2005.
  • Partnered with Community Health Services in the development of resources to support Capital Health's Comprehensive School Health Initiative (with a focus on Injury Prevention during the month of April), 2005 - 2006.
  • Lead organization in expanding L.E.A.R.N. campaign highlighting issues for Albertans residing in rural and remote areas.
  • Leadership to promote uptake of Graduated Driver Licensing to protect new teen drivers and passengers, through the L.E.A.R.N. project.
  • Leadership in the development of community-based research related to parent-role in Graduated Driver Licensing.
  • Co-authored systematic review accepted by Cochrane Database Systematic Reviews, 'Graduated Driver Licensing for Reducing Motor Vehicle Crashes Among Young Drivers', 2004.
  • Developed, implemented and evaluated the public awareness campaign  'Forget the Excuses…Helmets Save Lives', focusing on the vital role parents play in influencing helmet-wearing habits of their children and teens, 2004 - 2006.
  • Lead organization on the Regional Bike Helmet Safety Committee focusing on the education and enforcement of bicycle helmet safety, 'Gotta Brain?…Getta Helmet!'.
  • Co-authored publication accepted by the Canadian Journal of Public Health, 'The Use of Bicycle Helmets in a Western Canadian Province Without Legislation', Mar/Apr. 2003.
  • Lead organization in coordinating successful passage of the Bicycle Helmet Legislation in 2001.
  • Coordinated the first provincial Bike Helmet Observation Survey to provide an Alberta picture in support of public policy initiatives.
  • Organized initial strategy to push for Bicycle Helmet Legislation in Alberta, 1992 & 1999.
  • Report written summarizing the literature and data relating to the prevention of falls and fall-related injury among youth in the Capital Health region, Feb. 2003.
  • Developed and maintained KIDSAFE Connection webpage within the Capital Health website to widen the distribution of injury prevention resources – www.capitalhealth.ca/kidsafe
  • Co-authored, coordinated and distributed the Alberta Pediatric Major Trauma Report (1999, 2002, & 2006).
  • Developed the School Health Resource Manual to promote the teaching of injury prevention within the new Alberta Learning Health & Life Skills curriculum.
  • Partnered in the development and promotion of a skateboard campaign (SkateSmart) focusing on wearing the gear and bylaw awareness (Bylaw 5590)
  • Partnered in the development, promotion and evaluation of A Million Messages, an integrated program to provide age appropriate injury prevention information for all new families in the Capital Health region via Community Health Services.
  • Created 'Tips For Tots', an injury prevention resource targeted to parents of children aged 0 to 4 years.
  • Co-authored the 'Alberta Child/Teen Data Report', 2000.
  • Contracted to support the development of the Capital Health Injury Prevention Nurse team.
  • Created a model Safe at Home project to address home-related injuries.
  • Initiated the first provincial In-line skating campaign 'Get In-line…Skate Smart'.
  • Initiated a 'Safe School' pilot project to introduce a new Risk Watch Curriculum into Alberta schools.
  • Created a Playground Resource Manual & Kit.
  • Created a Sledding Resource Manual & Safe Sledding Dynamics Report.
  • Created Keep Them Safe, a project to reduce horse riding head injury.
  • Assisted the Federal government in examining strategies to reduce strangulation risks for children.
  • Lead agency to organize the Child Passenger Restraint program now known as Think…Think Again.  This represented the first collaborative program amongst acute care/public health, police, justice and private sectors.
  • Created topic specific safety fact sheets addressing childhood injury prevention.
  • Mobilized and supported communities throughout Alberta and Northwest Territories to initiate child injury prevention activities.
  • Wrote the first Childhood Injury Data Report in Alberta – have continued to press for enriched ED data to support injury control programming.
  • Partnered with the Calgary Health Region KIDSAFE Alberta team to sustain partnership initiatives and set provincial priorities.

Awards

Since Kidsafe Alberta's inception, we have been recognized for our contribution to the field of injury prevention in the Capital Health region and in the province of Alberta.

2006 - Laurel Award Nomination - A Million Messages

2005 - Primary Care Division REACH Award - Teamwork

2004 - Excellence In Injury Control Strategies Award - A Million Messages

2003 - Dr. John Waters Memorial Award - Exceptional provincial  contribution, with far-reaching effects in the field of child health

2003 - Pride of Strathcona Award - Outstanding child safety advocacy in Alberta

2003 - Stollery Children's Hospital nomination for the regional REACH awards

2003 - Site REACH Award - Health & Safety

2002 - Site REACH Award – Leadership

1998 - Visionary Award - Safe at Home Project

1996 - Innovator Award - Child Passenger Restraint Education & Enforcement Project

1994 - Dr. John Read Award for outstanding achievement in Injury Prevention

 

Kidsafe Connection Program Highlights & Awards (.pdf)


 

 

 

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