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KIPC Report:

S. Yates,

Executive Director

Poison grant: Contract w/ Dept. of Ag going well;

$2,500 donation of poison magnets and brochures from national office; an education campaign will be conducted for Nat’l Poison Prevention Week (March 14- 20, 2010)

$10,000 donation to KIPC and luncheon from Weinberg Foundation. 

Home Safety Checklist:

5,000 copies ordered by Child Safety Collaborative - searching for additional sponsors for 2nd printing

Safe Kids: Walk To School program with Kalihi Waena Elementary School:

2 small grants have been provided to develop traffic safety committee at school

Post education materials for National Poison Prevention Week in your workplace. Poison hotline stickers, magnets and brochures available.  Order at: kipc@hawaiiantel.net

Luncheon to be attended by S. Yates, Cora Speck of Queens Medical Center and a client of the car seat program, Arielyn Cotaleza, and her baby. 

Purchase home safety checklists at $2 each including accompanying educational presentation

Volunteer opportunities will be coming up.  Stay tuned.

Car Seat Program:

K. Tessier,

UH School of Nursing,

KIPC Car Seat Program Coordinator

Statewide Council: A 2-day training and meeting with car seat manufacturer reps held recently for about 80 participants from all islands.

Training for technicians will be held at HPD Academy (tentatively) February 25, 26 and March 5, 6

Kapiolani Medical Center has doubled the number of seats it has checked in the last year and has conducted staff education to the  newborn special care unit

The re-printing of the booster seat brochure w/DOT is progressing

More efforts are being seen on the neighbor islands and according to Dr. Kim’s DOT data, the number of toddlers in car seats is increasing – excellent news

Inappropriate Use of Car Seats:  43,000 infants in ERs 2002-07 due to portable car seats placed on inappropriate surfaces, i.e. countertops

Sign up early if you interested in car seat technician training; it fills up quickly; contact kipc@hawaiiantel.net

Congrats, Lisa.  Training within hospital staff is critical to the overall success of the car seat program and to increased car seat usage among children. 

We will let you know when it is available.

Efforts must continue statewide to increase usage of car seats among older children.  The rates are still dangerously low.

Please include this info in your education on car seats or child care; put in newsletters and other educational settings

Suicide Prevention:

IPCP Staff

Judy Strait-Jones

20 training workshops for about 300 community “gatekeepers” were held on Oahu in 2009 as part of the SAMSHA grant awarded to Injury Prevention and Control Program (IPCP), DOH;

IPCP funded a workshop for 14 professionals as Train-The-Trainers

Hawaii has a higher than national average of suicide ideation and attempts among teens. Avoiding a discussion on suicidal thoughts is not prevention; For more 2010 workshop information: http://hawaii.gov/health.  Under Health Events

Health Care Reform and Its Impact on Us

Dr. Linda Rosen,

reporting on comments made by Michael Fraser, CEO of Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs, Washington,  D.C., at the Cross-Program Integration Conference, Waikiki

If healthcare reform passes as it is now, emphasis and money will be put on preventive and community based initiatives; approx. $300 million for public health research; 4.6 billion for community based preventive services; and increased funds for home visiting programs plus possible additional public health funds through stimulus monies.  Very exciting.

As we receive word from the federal side, we will send out information.

It appears the case for preventive services is falling on receptive ears in D.C. 

Safe Sleep

KIPC Staff

Dr. Iwaishi

According to Dr. Louise Iwaishi, as of Nov. 30, all hospitals on Oahu have received the Safe Sleep policy training – a milestone achievement; DOH staff dedicated to Safe Sleep Hawaii Committee is gone and is tentatively scheduled to be coordinated by Lynn Niitani

Lynn spoke of the need for collaboration between injury prevention and MCH in order to work across the spectrum of child safety. 

Look for Safe Sleep Hawaii web site soon at:

www. Safesleephawaii.org

As Dr. Rosen’s pointed out:

“To protect is the opposite of neglect. Nor is it judgmental.  It is better to frame it as “failure to protect” with the understanding there is a continuum from neglect to protect as we encourage families and the community to protect children.”

Kaiser Permanente:

Geila Fukumitsu

Kaiser has recognized the value of the car seat check-up program and is now offering it as a Community Benefit and covering the staff time

This is an excellent model for other hospitals to adopt.

Honolulu Police Department:

Evan Ching,

Traffic Safety Officer

Evan presented state-of-the-art media education on bike helmet safety in anime style for teens; HPD and First Insurance Company of Hawaii have collaborated to send out injury prevention messages in their monthly mailing to customers

Queens Medical Center:

Cora Speck, Injury Prevention Specialist, QMC

Sally  Jones, Trauma Coordinator****

Queens checked 350 car seats this year with thanks to HPD and Katie Barbieto, too;

300 helmets for kids were distributed through the DOT grant to the Emergency Department at Queens;

They continue their emphasis on educating seniors who take care of children

It would be good to continue the helmet program – partners are welcomed.

Tobacco Related Issues

Julian reminded us that tobacco is an injury related issue primarily in regards to secondhand smoke. 

A working relationship between tobacco use and injury prevention will be developed.