SAFE KIDS KANSAS INC
Mission
Our mission is to reduce preventable childhood injuries and injury-related death.
Ruling year
2003
State Director
Cherie Sage
Main address
1000 Sw Jackson St Ste 230
Topeka, KS 66612 USA
EIN
48-1167349
NTEE code
Safety Education (M40)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (M01)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Preventable injuries are the leading cause of death of Kansas children. The good news is these deaths are preventable and we have evidence-based programs to do just that.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Buckle Up
Buckle Up focuses on Child Passenger Safety (CPS), and includes both public education and the consultation/inspection of child safety seat fit, use, and installation by certified CPS Technicians. The program also provides free child safety seats to low-income families. Since the program's inception, over 76,000 child safety seats have been inspected at over 4,000 events across Kansas. The program has been directly credited with saving 36 lives.
Cycle Smart
Cycle Smart focuses on non-motorized wheeled sports safety, primarily focusing on bicycle safety. Since the program's inception in 1993, over 191,000 bicycle helmets have been fitted and distributed to Kansas children. Programs include safety education on rules of the road and bicycle maintenance, in addition to helmet use. The program has been credited with 15 lives saved.
Get Alarmed
The Get Alarmed program focuses on smoke alarm and carbon monoxide distribution, and public education. Since the program's implementation in 1993, over 30,000 smoke alarms and 1,900 carbon monoxide detectors have been installed in homes.
Walk This Way
Walk This Way focuses on pedestrian safety. This includes International Walk to School Day activities, Halloween safety, formation of school safety committees, and environmental task force groups to identify ways to improve the safety of child pedestrians.
Kids Don't Float
Kids Don't Float focuses on safety around open bodies of water. Six personal floatation dvice (PFD) loaner boards have been erected and maintained at six public lakes in Kansas; Big Hill, Milford, Marion, Perry, Tuttle Creek and Clinton Lakes. The loaner boards hold multiple sizes of PFDs that can be borrowed for use by the public.
Poison Prevention
This program is a partnership with the Kansas Poison Control Center. Half of all calls to Poison Centers in Kansas are regarding children under age six. Educational programs, including Hunter and Scout's Poison Patrol, educate both children and adults on how to prevent accidental poisoning. Other programs, such as Over the Counter medicine literacy programs, target children ages 10 and over.
Safe Sleep for Babies
This program focuses on safe sleep environments for infants and works with parents and caregivers to ensure babies are put to sleep following the ABCs: Alone, on their Back, in a clutter-free Crib. The program provides education on safe sleep practices and provides portable cribs to low-income families. The program also supports a network of Safe Sleep Instructors across Kansas.
Where we work
Awards
Coalition of the Year 2004
Safe Kids Worldwide
State Coordinator of the Year 2010
Safe Kids USA
Safe Kids Buckle Up - Excellence in Accountability 2002
Safe Kids USA
First Alert McLean Stevenson Award 1996
Safe Kids USA
Outstanding State Coalition 1994
Safe Kids USA
Outstanding Safe Kids Day Event 2015
Safe Kids Worldwide
Excellence in Communications Award 2013
Safe Kids Worldwide
Affiliations & memberships
Safe Kids Worldwide 2015
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of families served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Buckle Up
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of programs documented
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Buckle Up
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of chiildren who were fitted and given a bicycle helmet.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Cycle Smart
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of car seats distributed to low-income families.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Buckle Up
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our mission is to reduce unintentional injuries and injury-related deaths to Kansas children ages 0-19. We will achieve this through partnerships, data-driven interventions, education, evidence-based and evidence-informed programs, and smart policy.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Safe Kids coalition is a network of partners and local coalitions dedicated to the mission of reducing preventable childhood injury. We integrate high-level policy changes, best-practice guidance and grass-roots outreach and programs to reach at-risk children and families with prevention education and resources. We raise awareness through events, media outreach and partnerships.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Safe Kids Kansas is a non-profit coalition of organizations, agencies and businesses dedicated to reducing preventable childhood injury. We have a network of 30 coalitions serving 36 counties across Kansas. We have the ability to impact these childhood injury rates through collective impact.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have seen significant declines in our motor vehicle occupant death rate, and increases in our observed vehicle restraint rate. In 2005, our mortality rate per 100,000 children due to motor vehicle crashes of children ages 0-19 was 11.02. By 2014, that rate had declined to 5.23. Across that same time span, hospital discharges reduced from 31.12 per 100,000 in 2010 to 25.38 in 2014. Emergency department visits also declined from 473.6 per 100,000 in 2010 to 400.6 in 2014.
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SAFE KIDS KANSAS INC
Board of directorsas of 02/24/2020
Donna Pashman
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
Term: 2020 - 2021
Jeffrey Colvin
Medical Advisor
Cherie Sage
Safe Kids Kansas
Adam Winters
Kansas Highway Patrol
Donna Pashman
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
Teresa Taylor
Stormont Vail Health
Molly Krager
Children's Mercy Hospital
Sara Hortenstine
Ks Child Death Review Board
Kayzy Bigler
KDHE - Bureau of Family Health
Dena Russell-Marino
SOS, Inc.
Krista Machado
DCCCA
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