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Safe Kids Coalitions of Orange & Chatham Counties

Background

Safe Kids Chatham and Safe Kids Orange, both led by UNC Trauma, have been leaders in child injury prevention and community risk reduction in our area for many years. We are a diverse group of stakeholders coming together for the same goal: to protect kids. We are proud to be one of 43 local coalitions of Safe Kids North Carolina and a member of Safe Kids Worldwide

Our coalitions' work is data driven, and we address the most common injuries experienced by our communities' kids. Our three main focus areas are:

Play Safety Child Passenger Safety Home Safety
Play Safety

We support bike, skateboarding and street safety by providing helmets to community members, holding bike rodeos, and educating kids about safe habits. We also provide swimming and water safety education for both pools and open water, and we provide life jackets at Jordan Lake. For resources for biking and street safety click here.

For water safety resources click here.

Child Passenger Safety

We support child passenger safety by partnering with Car Seat Permanent Checking Stations in the community, maintaining an active group of car seat technicians who can check your child's car seat for safety and help with installation, providing car seats at low-cost to community members in need, and running the Orange & Chatham County Child Passenger Safety Diversion Program. For more information and resources click here

Home Safety

We partner with fire departments, social services, day cares and more to provide education to parents about keeping their home safe to reduce the chance of kids falling at home (the number one cause of childhood injury), being burned, accidentally swallowing poison or non prescribed pill, being bit by a dog, and more. For home safety click here and for more information on fire and burn prevention click here.

Community Coalition Projects

Our coalitions' members meet on a monthly basis to coordinate injury prevention efforts between our communities’ public service and public safety agencies.  Some of our annual projects include planning Safe Kids Day and other safety fairs, providing bicycle helmets to toy drives during the holidays, providing car seats to families in need, and holding car seat safety checks.

Child Passenger Safety Diversion Program

We lead the Orange & Chatham Counties Child Passenger Safety Diversion Program.  If you or someone you know has been given a CPS citation by law enforcement in Orange or Chatham Counties in NC, you may be able to have your citation dismissed by attending our program. For more information you can call 984-974-2437. More information on North Carolina's Child Passenger Safety laws can be found here.

Safe Kids partners with Child Passenger Safety Permanent Checking Stations (PCS) to provide car seat safety checks on a regular basis. Many of our partnering fire departments are designated PCS, and you can find their hours of operation here.

If you would like to request a remote CPS consultation you can contact our office at 984-974-2437.

 

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Safe Kids Partners:

Fire Departments:

Carrboro Fire Department

Chapel Hill Fire Department

Hillsborough Fire Department

North Chatham Fire Department

Bennett Fire Department

Local Law Enforcement

North Carolina State Troopers

Hillsborough Police Department

Carrboro Police Department

Chapel Hill Police Department

Orange County Sheriff’s Office

Pittsboro Police Department

Siler City Police Department

Chatham County Sheriff’s Office

Emergency Services

Orange County EMS

Orange County Fire Marshal Division

Chatham County Fire Marshal Division

Public Schools

Orange County Public Schools

Chapel Hill Carrboro Schools

Public Service Agencies & Nonprofits

Chatham County Public Health Department

Orange County Public Health Department

Partnership for Children

Chatham Drug Free

Orange Partnership for Alcohol & Drug Free Youth

Chatham County Parks & Recreation

Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation

Chatham Soccer League

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

UNC Wellness Center

Water Safety

Coast Guard Auxiliary

Jordan B. Everette Lake Army Core of Engineers

Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA

Insurance Agencies

AllState

Insurance of the Carolinas

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