Nonprofit Safety OrganizationsAdvocates for Highway and Auto Safety www.saferoads.org Federal Aviation Administration www.faa.govAdvocates for Highway and Auto Safety www.saferoads.org/ Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is an alliance of consumer, health and safety groups and insurance companies and agents working together to make America's roads safer. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety encourages the adoption of federal and state laws, policies and programs that save lives and reduce injuries and helps to build coalitions to increase participation of a wide array of groups in public policy initiatives which advance highway and auto safety. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI)
http://www.aaaai.org/ The mission of the AAAAI is to advance the knowledge and practice of allergy, asthma and immunology through discussion, education cooperation of those in the field and by promoting and stimulating research and study in the fields of allergy, asthma and immunology. Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA)
http://www.aanma.org/ AANMA strives to eliminate suffering and death due to asthma and allergies through education, advocacy, community outreach, and research. AANMA helps parents advocate for patient access to specialty care and appropriate treatments, promotes the importance of a school nurse in every school, and supports children's rights to carry inhalers while at school after receiving appropriate training by medical professionals. AANMA publishes a bi-monthly magazine and a newsletter with practical news and how-to articles to help parents and children who deal with asthma and allergies on a daily basis and supports community volunteer programs, advocacy, and research in the areas of allergies and asthma. Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning http://www.aeclp.org/ The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning is dedicated to preventing childhood lead poisoning. It provides tools to educate consumers about lead poisoning, the sources of lead poisoning, the health effects of lead poisoning, lead-based paint hazards in housing, and how to protect children from lead poisoning. American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) http://www.aapcc.org/ The American Association of Poison Control Centers is a nationwide organization of poison centers and interested individuals. It provides a forum for poison centers and interested individuals to promote the reduction of morbidity and mortality from poisonings through public and professional education and scientific research. It also sets voluntary standards for poison center operations and certifies regional poison centers and poison center personnel. The AAPCC collects and analyzes national poisoning data and develops public and professional education programs and materials. American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/ The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, which provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. The Red Cross gives health and safety training to the public and provides emergency social services to U.S. military members and their families. In the wake of an earthquake, tornado, flood, fire, hurricane or other disaster, it provides relief services to communities across the country and is responsible for half of the nation's blood supply and blood products. Children's Environmental Health Network http://www.cehn.org/ The Children's Environmental Health Network's mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment. The Network is composed of experts in the fields of medicine, nursing, research and policy. The goals of the Children's Environmental Network are to:
Children's Defense Fund (CDF) http://www.childrensdefense.org/ CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves paying particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. It advocates for:
The CDF site has links to a number of advocacy groups for children as well as links to state and county governments and opportunities to participate in welfare reform and advocate for children. Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
(CHADD) http://www.chadd.org/ CHADD is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to education, advocacy, and support for children and adults with ADHD. CHADD was formed in 1987 by parents with children with ADHD who felt frustrated and isolated in their experience. CHADD now uses the strength of its membership to educate and influence policy makers, physicians, and the public about ADHD. Some of CHADD's current policy goals include: increased federal funding to support the general and special education and NIH supported research for ADHD; effective implementation and enforcement of civil rights laws as they pertain to ADHD; assuring that programs to support students with ADHD are designed to maximize opportunity for success and are implemented on a consistent and timely basis; in-service training for all public school teachers, special education teachers, and staff for ADHD as well as effective strategies for learning and classroom management; requiring all public schools to develop policies prohibiting discrimination against students with disabilities by anyone at the school; and increased funding for parent training and information centers. Child Trends http://www.childtrends.org/ Mailing address: 4301 Connecticut Ave, NW , Suite 100, Washington, DC 20008 Phone: (202) 362-5580 Fax (202)362-5533 E-mail: Media Inquiries: jrobinson@childtrends.org Publications Inquiries:bwahiba@childtrends.org Research Inquiries: jrobinson@childtrends.org Child Trends is a research organization dedicated to studying children, youth and families through research, data collection and data analyses. Child Trends conducts basic research and evaluation in: teenage pregnancy and childbearing; the effects of welfare and poverty on children and issues related to parenting and family structure and family processes. It also gathers data on the major indicators of children's health and well-being and develops and tests new conceptual and methodological approaches for studying emerging areas of research. Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning http://www.leadsafe.org/ The vision of the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning is to end childhood lead poisoning so that every child has the opportunity to reach his or her full potential. The Coalition does outreach and education for the prevention of childhood lead poisoning to high risk communities, parents, pregnant women, medical and public health professionals, educators, community organizations, child care providers, and the general public with a focus on the danger of lead poisoning to children (6 years old and younger) and pregnant women. It also:
Connect for Kids http://www.connectforkids.org/ Connect for Kids is a website which provides information on over 30 topics relating to children and families ranging from arts and youth development, out-of-school time and early childhood to foster care, welfare reform and oral health. The web site offers the tools for parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting to make their communities a better place for kids. Connect for Kids has fact sheets on a wide variety of issues and reports about the status of children in the U.S. as well as public opinion polls and books that explore the challenges facing kids and families today. The site links to over 1,000 other sites and service and advocacy organizations and has links to resources at the state and local level for each state in the U.S. Consumer Federation of America (CFA) http://www.consumerfed.org/ Consumer Federation of America is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization. SafeChild.net is a project of the Consumer Federation of America Foundation (CFAF). CFA Foundation was founded in 1972 as a private, nonprofit, research and education organization that compliments the work of the Consumer Federation of America (CFA). The mission of CFAF is to provide information to the public on consumer issues, assist state and local organizations, and conduct research projects. Child safety and health is an important part of this mission, and CFAF and CFA both have a long history of educating the public on child safety and public health issues. Since 1984, the CFA Foundation and CFA have played a leadership role in advocating before Congress and federal agencies on child safety and have participated in voluntary safety standards proceedings for children's products. CFAF has also assisted the 78 state and local consumer groups that make up the CFA grassroots network in promoting proactive child safety measures on the state and local level. CFA's involvement has included filing petitions before the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission on: choking risks associated with small parts in children's toys; crib toys that pose strangulation risks; bunk beds; baby walkers; and bath seats. It has published three editions of The Childwise Catalog: A Consumer Guide to Buying the Safest and Best Products for Your Children (Harper Collins, 1993) and also produced Protect Your Child: Simple Solutions to a Safer Home, a 20-page room-by-room guide for parents of infants and toddlers. Daniel's Task Force for Safer Soccer Goals www.members.tripod.com/goalsafety Daniel's Taskforce for Safer Soccer Goals was founded in the memory of Daniel Taunton who was killed when a 500-pound soccer goal fell on him while he was playing with his dog in a neighborhood park in 1993. The mission of this task force is to alert the public about the dangers of soccer goals that are not securely anchored into the ground and to insist that goals be properly anchored so that they cannot fall over and kill children. The Danny Foundation http://www.dannyfoundation.org/ The Danny Foundation was founded in 1986 to help prevent unintentional injuries, conduct research, and provide the much needed leadership to set regulatory standards for safe nursery products. The primary mission of the Foundation is to educate the public about crib dangers and to eliminate the millions of unsafe cribs currently in use or in storage. Since cribs are the only juvenile product manufactured for the express purpose of leaving a child unattended, extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure that a crib is the safest possible environment. The Danny Foundation is named in memory of Danny Lineweaver who strangled on his unsafe crib. Drowning Prevention Foundation http://www.drownprevention.com/ Mailing address:
P.O. Box 202, Alamo, CA 94507 Drowning Prevention Foundation (DPF) is a non-profit, community-based organization that was established in 1984 with the mission to prevent the tragedy of drownings through the use of public information, education, and policy change. It is recognized both locally and nationally as a leading expert in drowning prevention methods, technology, policy, and activities. DPF's activities include working to strengthen local, state, and national legislation on pool fencing; providing technical assistance to other local, state, and national coalitions and agencies; producing and distributing educational materials on drowning prevention; and advising parents and caretakers on improving the safety of backyard pools, spas and hot tubs. Farm Safety 4 Just Kids http://www.fs4jk.org/ Mailing address: P.O. Box
458, Earlham, IA 50072 The mission of Farm Safety 4 Just Kids is to promote a safe farm environment to prevent health hazards, injuries, and fatalities to children and youth. Farm Safety 4 Just Kids was founded in 1986 by Marilyn Adams after her 11 year-old son Keith Algreen suffocated in a gravity flow wagon of shelled corn The site has a wide number of fact sheets on farm safety including "Safe Play Areas for Children on the Farm" and "Emergency Care and Rescue on the Farm." Marilyn, a mother and farm wife, travels the country to advocate for farm safety for children. There is a Farm Safety 4 Just Kids Chapter network for conducting farm safety programs in communities throughout the United States & Canada. You can find Farm Safety 4 Just Kids Chapters at www.fs4jk.org/chapters/index.html. Chapters have community ownership and responsibility for conducting local children's farm safety activities using resources and assistance from Farm Safety 4 Just Kids. Home Safety Council http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/ The Home Safety Council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safer American homes. In addition to several hands-on safety programs, LHSC also operates the Code Red Rover website, http://www.coderedrover.org/, a fun and free edutainment site that promotes safe home practices and reinforces safety messages with children. CodeRedRover.org offers interactive games to educate children about the four main home safety areas - fire and burn prevention, choking prevention, poisoning prevention and fall prevention. Code Red Rover uses a dog, Rover, as a mascot to help teach children safety at home through interactive games. The site allows parents and children to tour Rover's house looking for safety information. It also teaches children to tell their parents if they think something is unsafe by paraphrasing the familiar children's game of Red Rover to "Code Red Rover. Grown-up come over." All children may play the safety games on the website but many of the games are fast paced and are most appropriate for children ages eight to eleven. The site also provides teachers with access to safety lesson plans for the classroom. The Home Safety Council worked with national safety experts, children and teachers to make sure the site is fun, age appropriate and comprehensive. No personally identifiable information is collected online from children, and there are no chat rooms, cookies or ads. Site features include:
Code Red Rover is based on the traveling exhibit, Lowe's Great Safety Adventure, a 1,200 square-foot replica of a home which is a Lowe's sponsored project of the Home Safety Council. Lowe's Great Safety Adventure spreads important life-saving messages to children while they tour the interactive "field trip on wheels" at elementary schools and Lowe's stores across the country. More than 200,000 children have visited the exhibit since 1999, and at least one child's life has been saved due to lessons learned at the exhibit. You can find the schedule of the exhibit on the Red Rover website at: www.coderedrover.org/home.asp Kids in Danger http://www.kidsindanger.org/ Kids In Danger (KID) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children by improving children's product safety. KID was founded in 1998 by Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar, professors at the University of Chicago, following the death of their son, Daniel, in a Playskool Travel Lite portable crib that they later learned had been recalled by the manufacturer five years earlier. Danny Keysar was the 5th victim claimed by the Playskool crib. All together, 14 children have died in faulty top rail cribs. Ginzel and Keysar founded KID with the goal of preventing future injuries and deaths due to unsafe juvenile products. Nationally recognized for its efforts in protecting the safety of children, the mission of KID is to:
March of Dimes http://www.modimes.org/ The March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. The March of Dimes stresses good medical care during pregnancy to increase the chances of having a healthy baby. National Association of Child Advocates http://www.childadvocacy.org/ The National Association of Child Advocates (NACA) is a nationwide network of child advocacy organizations working to build the capacity of state and local child advocacy organizations to ensure children's safety, security, health and education. NACA's member organizations provide critical leadership on children's issues in their states and localities. Many members lead broad-based coalitions that address the serious issues arising from rapid transformation in programs critical to children's well-being, such as welfare reform, managed health care, and child protective services reform. Others are engaged in active partnerships with educators, service providers, health professionals, and others to improve the status of children and families. Still others are leading the fight for improvements and expansions in public programs serving this country's most vulnerable children. National Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) http://www.add.org/ ADDA's mission is to educate, teach, and lobby for the rights of people with ADD and to cultivate and rally the varied talents of the ADD community. ADDA supports training, conferences, and research into ADD's causes and treatment. The ADDA Support Group Network helps people discover how to cope with the challenges of ADD, while celebrating and leveraging its many positive aspects. National Fire Protection Association http://www.nfpa.org/ The mission of NFPA is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating scientifically based consensus codes and standards, research, training and education. NFPA has published the National Electric Code®, Life Safety Code®, and 300 other codes and standards through a full, open-consensus process, and is currently developing a consensus-based building code. NFPA also produces educational curricula, including Risk Watch® (community-based injury prevention), Remembering When™ (falls and fire prevention for older adults), and Learn Not to Burnâ (fire safety). Risk Watch, a comprehensive safety curriculum, was developed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) with co-funding from the Lowe's Home Safety Council and in collaboration with a panel of respected safety and injury prevention experts. Risk Watch gives children and their families the skills and knowledge they need to create safer homes and communities. It is divided into five teaching modules (Pre-K/Kindergarten, Grades 1 and 2, Grades 3 and 4, Grades 5 and 6 and Grades 7 and 8) each of which address Motor Vehicle Safety, Fire and Burn Prevention, Choking, Suffocation and Strangulation Prevention, Poisoning Prevention, Falls Prevention, Firearms Injury Prevention, Bike and Pedestrian Safety and Water Safety. The Risk Watch curriculum has been well evaluated and is currently being used in many schools across the country. To learn more about Risk Watch visit their website at: http://www.riskwatch.org/. Learn Not to Burn® (LNTB), a focus of NFPA's comprehensive public fire safety education initiatives for twenty years, teaches 22 key fire safety behaviors and is organized in three learning levels for children from Kindergarten to Third Grade. There is also a Learn Not to Burn® (LNTB) curriculum for pre-school children ages three to five. The curriculum is intended for use by individual classroom teachers in planning classroom activities and can be re-used from year to year. Program materials are available in English, Spanish and French. To learn more about Learn Not to Burn® visit their website at www.nfpa.org/Education/LNTB/LNTB.asp National SAFE KIDS Campaign http://www.safekids.org/ The Nationals SAFE KIDS Campaign is dedicated solely to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury. SAFE KIDS joins with public and private organizations, health care professionals, government officials, corporate executives and others committed to childhood injury prevention. Through its network of 300 state and local coalitions in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the National SAFE KIDS Campaign works to:
Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D., is Chairman of the Campaign. The National SAFE KIDS Campaign publishes frequent studies on common risks to children in America, and simple tips for families to help prevent injury and death. The National SAFE KIDS Campaign also sponsors programs, involving media events, device distribution and hands-on educational activities for kids and their families and aims to get communities across the country more involved in the safety of their children. SAFE KIDS Worldwide strives to prevent unintentional injury to children around the world. Official members include: Austria, Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and the United States. National Safety Council http://www.nsc.org/ The National Safety Council is an advocacy group for health and safety. It's mission is "to educate and influence society to adopt safety, health and environmental policies, practices and procedures that prevent and mitigate human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable causes." National Youth Sports Safety Foundation (NYSSF) http://www.nyssf.org/ The National Youth Sports Safety Foundation (NYSSF), formerly the National Youth Sports Foundation For The Prevention of Athletic Injuries, was established in 1989 as a national non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the number and severity of injuries youth sustain in sports and fitness activities through the education of health professionals, program administrators, coaches, parents and athletes. The NYSSF provides current information on sports injury prevention from national medical, sports, and allied health organizations, and from Medline (a database of biomedical literature from journals world-wide). Safer America for Everyone (SAFE) http://www.saferam.org/ The mission of SAFE is to save lives and prevent injuries for America's families and children. In a given year in this country, injuries result in the deaths of nearly 150,000 people and cost more than $260 billion. This is a cost we all bear -- as individuals, as companies and as a society. SAFE believes that this tremendous cost in lives and dollars can be reduced through more vigorous action to prevent injuries and promote safety. SAFE's goal is to enlist consumers, organizations, and industry in a sustained effort to save lives and prevent injuries. U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) http://www.uspirg.org/ U.S. PIRG acts as a watchdog for the public interest in Washington, DC. Each year U.S. PIRG conducts an annual survey of toys and prepares a report about toy hazards looking at issues such as: choking hazards including balloons, toxic chemicals, hearing loss hazards, scooter dangers, and purchasing toys on the Internet. PIRG also identifies toys that do not have manufacturer information, which makes it difficult for consumers and government officials to identify and recall unsafe toys. U.S. PIRG joins with the Consumer Federation of America every other year to conduct a nationwide survey of public playgrounds and prepare a state-by state report about the conditions of playgrounds. U.S. PIRG also coordinates the State Public Interest Research Groups http://www.pirg.org/Each state PIRG is independent and locally based. The state PIRGs work together nationally to share ideas and resources and cooperate on regional and national issues. |
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