Links to Injury Prevention Organizations

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Boundless Playgrounds: Boundless Playgrounds is a foundation dedicated to making playgrounds fully accessible to children with disabilities.
Head and Spinal Cord Injury Prevention: Sponsored by the Texas State Office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities. A new site in August, 2003 that is developing.
Ravesafe: RaveSafe believes that each individual has the right to accurate and honest information about drugs and their effects, so that we can make informed decisions about our lives and health. Being ravers ourselves, we realize that it is important to know what the substances available are, how they affect our bodies and state of mind. RaveSafe researches and distributes information relevant to the rave community with a commitment to promoting safe raving.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving: Twenty year old organization committed to stopping drunk driving, supporting victims of this violent crime, and preventing underage drinking.
The Injury Prevention Web: The Injury Prevention Web is a non-profit group within San Diego State University in California. The site contains injury facts, figures, and tables of rates for every state in the U.S., but very little specifically on helmets.
The Brainy Bunch: This a New Jersey helmet campaign funded by the state and put together by The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey. It is targeted to both children and adults, and includes radio and TV spots, a survey on helmet use, a coloring page, a place to report your crash story and lots more.
Health In Action: HIA, the premier source of information on health promotion, injury prevention and population health for practitioners in Alberta, is a unique resource that offers information and networking opportunities for health practitioners. HIA provides immediate access to information, people and resources needed to make health promotion and injury prevention programs and research more effective.
The World Health Organization Helmet Resource Center: This is Dr. Phil Graitcer's site promoting the World Health Organization's Helmet Initiative, an effort to spread the word about helmets worldwide. Included is the Headlines newsletter, which covers a lot of international helmet news you won't see anywhere else. This site is the closest thing to BHSI on the 'Net.
Consumer Product Safety Commission: CPSC has a page up with information on their helmet standard, product recalls and hazards, research, and the agency's current calendar of meetings.
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center: Home of the Thompson, Rivara and Thompson studies on helmet effectiveness. Summarizes major studies of helmet effectiveness, with estimates of the protection helmets offer and more. Look for their page on helmet effectiveness and their evaluation of 15 bicycle safety programs.
Snell Memorial Foundation: The Snell Memorial Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to research, education, testing and development of helmet safety standards. Since its founding in 1957, Snell has been a leader in helmet safety in the United States and around the world.
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute: Randy Swart has perhaps the most complete bibliography on technical aspects of helmet design.


Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition Bike Safety Pages: An interesting set of Web pages on bicycle safety, concentrating on how to avoid the crash as the first step in avoiding injury. There is a short, carefully worded section on helmets written from a helmet skeptic's point of view. Presents bike safety from the perspective of both cyclists and car drivers.
National Bicycle Safety Network: NBSN is a committee that meets periodically in Washington, DC, to coordinate helmet promotion activities. The Web site reflects materials from CDC and NHTSA, the co-sponsors, as well as the various members of the Network, including BHSI. Primarily useful for links to other bike safety pages. It will disappear some time during 2003, a victim of low priorities.
Safety Equipment Institute: SEI's page has info on their safety equipment certification programs. Their helmet certification program tests helmets to the ASTM standard and verifies the manufacturer's quality control procedures. They include a list of certified helmets.
The ThinkFirst Foundation of Canada: ThinkFirst's mission is to "prevent brain and spinal cord injury through education aimed at healthy behaviors in children and youth."
Safe Kids Campaign: The National SAFE KIDS Campaign is a movement to prevent unintentional childhood injury. They have more than 300 state and local coalitions running community-based campaigns on child occupant protection, bicycle safety, residential fire detection, and scald burn prevention. They ran an extensive helmet promotion campaign in 1989 and remain actively involved in safety promotion. Safe Kids provides inexpensive helmets to their chapters and to other non-profits through Bell, one of their sponsors.
The TRIS Search Page: This site provides transportation-related research articles on bicycle helmets, among other subjects. TRIS has more than 400,000 books, journal articles, and technical reports on transportation research from the 1960's to the present. Enter bicycle AND helmet in the search window and it will offer greater than 100 references.
American Plastics Council's Free Poster: This free colorful poster is a great way to remind kids to wear proper safety gear. It features cool original artwork and tells kids - in their language - that safety gear can help save their lives.
SMARTRISK: This national, non-profit organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives helps people see the risks in their everyday activities and shows them how to take those risks in the smartest way possible to insure health and enjoy life to the fullest.

SafeUSA/CDC: SafeUSA is a working alliance of major public and private partners dedicated to reducing significantly the high rates of injuries and deaths related to injuries in the United States and increasing the levels of safety in the nation’s homes, schools, work sites, transportation areas, and communities.
Children's Safety Network: CSN works with maternal and child health (MCH), public health, and other injury prevention practitioners to provide technical assistance and information, to facilitate the implementation and evaluation of injury prevention programs, and to conduct analytical and policy activities that improve injury and violence prevention.
Passport to Safety: Passport to Safety is a unique, not-for-profit intended to help eliminate needless injuries and preventable deaths of young people 24 and under. It supports the vision that our children enter and return home from safe workplaces every day and challenges them to a Passport to Safety “test”, based on learning outcomes developed by health and safety curriculum experts across Canada.
National Program for Playground Safety: In 1995, the University of Northern Iowa established the National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS) under a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Injury Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Through its efforts to help address America's playground safety issues, NPPS hopes to see a decline in the nearly 200,000 annual playground-related injuries suffered by America's youth.
Calgary Injury Prevention Coalition: Formed in 1992, CIPC is a group of over 50 organizations and individuals representing diverse injury prevention perspectives in the Calgary Region. CIPC is "dedicated to injury prevention to improve the well being of people in the Calgary Region"
DanceSafe: DanceSafe is a nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community. We currently have local chapters in twenty-six cities throughout the US and Canada.

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