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New This Month: Support Safety Education While You Shop… Shop more than 700 stores online and help support the Home Safety Council’s public education activities and programs, including MySafeHome.org. It’s free, and it’s easy. Any purchase made at igive.com/mysafehome will generate a donation to the Home Safety Council. …and While you Search the Web… Use isearchigive.com/mysafehome when you search the web and the Home Safety Council will receive 2 cents for each search. Visit HSC’s Web Sites Go room-by-room to identify injury risks on MySafeHome.org, HSC's innovative virtual home safety site. HSC’s CodeRedRover.org can help children in your community learn how to spot home injury dangers. SAFETY ADVOCACY Grassroots Media Tools The Home Safety Council’s encourages your use of its national home injury statistics. HSC has developed fill-in media tools to simplify fire and life safety efforts to promote home injury prevention coverage in local media. Families USA offers helpful advice and how-to downloads to help community advocates achieve local publicity. HOLIDAY SAFETY HSC Holiday Safety Resources and Downloads According to the U.S. CPSC, turkey fryers have caused 36 injuries and more than $7.8 million in property damage in the past decade. Download HSC’s safety information: Turkey fryer dangers HSC’s Safety Guide presents a wealth of holiday safety educational material for your community. Download it today, including: Visit HSC’s Resource Center to download and print a wide range of free community teaching tools. Download home injury prevention handouts with line drawing illustrations and safety messages for the top five causes of home injury.
Download Spanish-language teaching tools. GRANT MAKING AFG Fire Prevention & Safety Grants Fire Prevention & Safety Grants support projects that enhance the safety of the public and firefighters from fire and related hazards. The FY/2008 grant program is expected to open soon. Homeland Security Department FY/2009 Appropriations Download the Congressional Research Service Report for Congress. Help for Nonprofits Visit USA.gov for grant making resources. Grant Application Success
The Center for Childhood Injury Prevention offers tips to improve grant proposals.
POISON PREVENTION New Home Safety Literacy Project Kit Make sure the adults who don’t read English or are learning to read English in your community can learn about poison safety. Download the new HSLP materials at no cost. Preventing Medication Errors U.S. Pharmacopeia has developed a free Internet tool to help the public access drug names that look or sound alike, in an effort to reduce medication mix-ups. Carbon Monoxide Prevention Download and distribute HSC’s Carbon Monoxide Poisoning fact sheet Read the archived Bottom Line: Carbon Monoxide Safety Gains Ground with New ICC Code Requirement, written by Deborah Hanson. Download and distribute HSC’s Carbon Monoxide Poisoning fact sheet. SAFETY EDUCATOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Ten Archived Webinars Available On Demand Listen to archives of all community safety education Expert Network Webinars. National Fire Academy Courses Learn more about National Fire Academy courses EVENTS OF INTEREST TO FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY EDUCATORS February 23-29, 2009
The 8th Annual National Drowning Prevention Symposium will be held in Miami, FL.
MISCELLANEOUS HOME SAFETY RESOURCES Electrical Safety Web Site The Fire Protection Research Foundation Web site focuses on the problem of electrical wiring dangers in homes. Read the Foundation findings of a survey on hazardous electrical conditions. Fall-Related Brain Injury Download free community awareness materials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to educate children and other caregivers of older adults about ways to prevent, recognize and respond to fall-related traumatic brain injury. Order “Hard Copy” Teaching Tools from HSC at Low Cost Request HSC’s Always Fire Safe at Home Toolbox – free to fire department members of the Expert Network. Members of the Expert Network may order printed/disk materials at the cost of shipping and handling only – $7.50 for 1-3 items. Quantity discounts are also available. Visit HSC’s Products and Publications. HOME FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEM ADVOCACY Free HSC Resources
For community educators: Read the Bottom Line: Have You Requested Your Free Fire Sprinkler Education Materials?, written by the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition’s Peg Paul. Tell Your Community About Fire Sprinklers for Homes The 2009 International Residential Code will require the installation of fire sprinkler systems in all new construction of one- and two-family homes. Learn more at the International Residential Code Fire Sprinkler Coalition’s Web site: http://www.ircfiresprinkler.org/. Visit MySafeHome.org to watch 3D sprinkler animations, including a new side-by-side fire comparison with and without fire sprinklers (check it out by visiting the Living Room).
For consumers: Free Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) Resources The Built for Life Fire Department program supports fire service educator efforts. New HFSC DVD to educate local officials about home fire sprinklers. HFSC’s Public Education Kit presentation tools on CD and DVD. Sprinkler Smarts introduces children in grades K-5 and 6-8 to home fire sprinklers. Common Voices The Common Voices Coalition, sponsored by the National Fire Sprinkler Association, is a group of advocates who have been personally affected by fire tragedy. 110th U.S. CONGRESS
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