Safe Kids Mid-South

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WHAT WE DO
  1. Raise community awareness
  2. Provide education programs
  3. Participate in school and community events
  4. Initiate public policy changes
  5. Monitor product safety

Every year, nearly 10,000 children come to our Emergency Department with an injury that could have been prevented.

Safe Kids Mid-South is our answer to the overwhelming numbers of accidental childhood injuries and deaths. By teaching safety, improving laws and helping to make homes, schools, community centers and streets more child friendly, we are working to make those numbers smaller and smaller. 

Safe Kids includes a number of different “Action Teams” that address various injury risk areas and determine prevention strategies. These include:

Car and Road Safety

Bicycle Safety

Child Passenger Safety

Pedestrian Safety (Walk This Way)

Emergency Preparedness

Safe Kids Mid-South is part of Safe Kids Worldwide, global campaign dedicated to the prevention of unintentional injuries to children. An overall decrease in accidental injury has been documented since the local coalition's inception in 1992.

Check out this video that shows one of our programs that began in 2008.

For more information, please call 901-287-6730.