Each year, approximately one out of 10 Florida children, ages 19 and under, are injured seriously enough to require a visit to the emergency department or admission to the hospital for medical treatment.
The mission of Safe Kids Florida is to prevent and reduce the number of unintentional injuries and deaths of Florida’s children.
Florida Safe Kids
- Promotes awareness and education among parents, caregivers, and other child injury prevention advocates.
- Supports public policies and programs that reduce injuries among children and youth.
- Provides safety education to children and youth in the major risk areas of traffic safety, water safety, fire safety, poisoning (including medicines), falls prevention, and suffocation.
The Florida Department of Health is the lead organization for Safe Kids Florida.
Florida Injury SURVEILLANCE
Used to monitor the frequency of injuries, risk factors, and quality of data sources, and provide information to Florida’s injury prevention community for program planning and evaluation.
There are currently 15 local Safe Kids coalitions covering 42 counties throughout the state. To improve our collective impact on unintentional childhood injury prevention, local Safe Kids coalitions in Florida, working with Safe Kids Florida and Safe Kids Florida Advisory Board, developed a strategic plan to guide efforts.
Local Coalitions
Local coalitions provide leadership to their communities and work to support the mission of Safe Florida Kids. They identify and target the most common injury problems in their local areas. By combining resources, they plan and put into operation strategies to address those problems by:
- Educating adults and children
- Creating safe environments
- Conducting research
- Advocating for effective laws
Coalition and chapter members reach out to their local communities with injury prevention messages, safety tools and equipment, and hands-on training. Through grassroots efforts, Safe Kids Florida programs reach families and communities to prevent unintentional childhood injuries and deaths.
For more information, please contact the local coalition in your area, contact us.