Injury Prevention Program was developed by Seattle Fire Department and King County Emergency Medical Services to address the main injury categories relevant to children, ages years. Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for young children. Injury Prevention Curriculum targets four of the main categories relevant to children three to five years old. Topics include:. Each unit is designed to teach children a concrete safety skill that can be used to stay safe and to avoid unnecessary injuries.
The curriculum includes an instructor's guide, hands-on activities, story cards, lesson plans and classroom ideas for teachers to use when teaching these important skills to preschoolers. To obtain a free kit, fill out the request section of the online registration form and a kit will be mailed to the mailing address entered on the form. Only preschool groups in Seattle may request a free kit. Keeping your neighborhood safe is our top priority. Our elementary school-aged fire safety program provides specific age appropriate safety messages and skills.
A unique and fun educational activity booklet provides activities at two different learning levels. Download the activities that are most appropriate for your students. Level 1 is for school-age children learning at a younger level and Level 2 is for school age children learning at a higher level. The activities address important fire and life safety topics by using vocabulary, writing, sorting, math and other important academic skills.
Feature Firefighter Handouts are fun, single-sheet activities that incorporate learning goals with stories about firefighters. They remembered the information because we had a guest firefighter come in the next day and they told him all about stop, drop and roll, back of the hand to the door, and to get out 2 ways. We are grateful for those who made it possible for us to have these important safety features in our home now.
The installers were very kind. Thank you for your generous help. For some of them, this is the only information they have gotten. With your donation, we can prevent fires, reduce the resulting burn injuries, and help all burn survivors thrive. Fire Safety for Kids You can keep your community safer when you teach kids how to react to fire. Our youth programs reach 1,s of students each year! See Resources. Youth Firesetter Intervention. Working with youth and their families to understand the serious consequences of firesetting.
The program consists of a formal assessment, which identifies the child's risk level, and then provides education intervention or referral to additional services. This may be particularly limited with regard to fire safety because many behavior changes require participation or input from other family members who may not have received the education. Other school based programs that focus primarily on fire and burn prevention have demonstrated improvement in fire safety knowledge among students.
The students in our study did not receive any direct education on fire prevention from the investigators until completion of the study. This may explain why students did not demonstrate an improvement in the knowledge portion of the survey.
It was beyond the scope of the current study to evaluate whether this community based fire prevention intervention will result in lower morbidity and mortality secondary to fires.
The use of smoke detectors has been shown to be a cost effective strategy to decrease morbidity and mortality caused by fires. Several limitations to our findings should be considered. This was not a true randomized controlled trial as students were distributed, in part, based on whether parents consented for the intervention or not. Thus, there is potential for bias in that households who consented for the intervention may have been more motivated to learn more about fire prevention.
Baseline summary scores were indeed better for the control compared to the intervention group. Our analyses were able to account for this difference in baseline scores and still demonstrated an improvement among children in the intervention group.
However, an additional limitation is that scores were based on student surveys and not actual observed behavior, and thus results of reported behavior may not be as reliable. In conclusion, this study provides insight on how a community based fire prevention intervention directed to parents can affect elementary school children. The improvement in behavior subscores among the students suggests that families who received the fire prevention intervention positively changed some household fire safety practices.
A combined approach in which children receive fire prevention education at school and households receive an intervention similar to what was provided in our study may be the most effective way for improving both fire prevention knowledge and behavior in households with children.
Competing interests: none. An appendix to this article is available on our website. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Journal List Inj Prev v.
Inj Prev. Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer. Accepted Jun This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.
Abstract The objective of this study was to determine the impact of a community based fire prevention intervention directed only to parents on the fire safety knowledge and behavior in elementary school children. Keywords: fire intervention, fire safety knowledge, fire safety behavior, elementary school children. Results Of third and fourth grade students enrolled at the target elementary schools, consented to participate in the study.
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