Educational and Advocacy Tools

The Center for Injury Research and Prevention's education specialists are constantly updating and improving their evidence-based educational tools for use by public-health educators, clinicians and parents. Materials are available for the following areas of research:

Child Passenger Safety & Traffic Injury

The Keeping Kids Safe During Crashes website offers a complete library of educational materials for child passenger safety practitioners, parents, and advocates. Resources include how-to installation videos, state-by-state fact sheets, illustrations, charts and regular reports.

  • Interactive Websites

    The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP hosts two websites especially for parents and educators looking for the most up-to-date information on keeping kids safe in the car. The brief, interactive videos on how to choose and install the right car seat for children of any age, along with downloadable fact sheets and other information based on the most current research from the Center. Available in English: www.chop.edu/carseat and Spanish: www.chop.edu/asientos_infantiles.

  • Videos

    The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP offers a series of short interactive videos in English and Spanish for parents and educators looking for comprehensive, easy-to-understand information on correctly restraining childrenin motor vehicles. These videos can be found online at www.chop.edu/carseat and www.chop.edu/asientos_infantiles. They are also available to CPS practitioners on CD-ROM.

  • Child Passenger Safety Reports

    Download periodical reports on the state of child passenger safety research, intervention and policy. Child passenger safety practitioners and health professionals will find very current, useful information on new areas of concentration for education efforts.

  • Charts and Images

    Child passenger safety data provide a scientific foundation for legislative action and have been utilized in state and federal initiatives focused on strengthening child occupant restraint laws. The charts and images featuring relevant data can be downloaded and enlarged for use in advocating for stronger laws and appropriate restraint use.

  • Educational Illustrations

    The Center has created a series of 37 educational illustrations, with descriptions in English and Spanish, to help demonstrate proper restraint use for a variety of ages, sizes, vehicle types, and restraint types. Use these illustrations to enhance presentations, fact sheets, and brochures with accurate depictions of vehicle safety features, restraint types, and correct vs. incorrect restraint use. Convenient indexes also are available for reference.

  • Educational Fact Sheets

    Download these single-page, black-and-white, photocopier-friendly educational tools designed in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics for distribution and use in pediatric practices. They address the many questions parents and caregivers may have about safe seating positions for children, use of belts and tethers, safe cars for families, correct belt-positioning booster seat use, and transitioning children to adult seat belts, and helping teens to be smart passengers.

  • Legislative Fact Sheets

    These fact sheets contain national and state-specific data (for PCPS-participating states) on 4-to 8-year-old children in car crashes reported to between January 1999 and November 2002.

  • Fotonovela

    This Spanish-language fotonovela was developed as an educational tool to promote booster seats among Latino communities.

     

Young Driver Safety

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm have expanded their research alliance to include  a comprehensive teen driver outreach and education initiative. Available resources from this alliance include:

  • Keeping Young Drivers Safe: A website for parents

    This website contains the most up-to-date information for parents and educators seeking guidance on how to help teenagers become safe, responsible drivers. The site includes the latest research; advice on choosing a car; a sample parent-teen driving agreement; a suggested timeline for driving instruction, and more. Visit us at www.chop.edu/youngdrivers.

  • Research Reports

    The Young Driver Research Initiative periodically compiles its current body of research into reports for use by educators, advocates, researchers and health care professionals.

  • Fact Sheets and Community Action Tools

    Up-to-date educational and planning materials for parents, schools and community groups. All of our fact sheets and tip sheets are regularly refined based on the latest science and feedback from end users. Intended for distribution at events and through networks of parents, the handouts provide guidance, offer compelling facts, and support a crucial message: Parents are key to teens’ success in learning to drive safely.

  • Driving: Through the Eyes of Teens

    The first report on results from the National Young Driver Survey provides charts and information on what teens are seeing and doing in cars that might be making them unsafe. Information includes insights into the important role of parents in the early driving experience; financial responsibility for driving expenses; types of cars being driven; where, why, how often, and with whom teens are driving;  driver training and education; common distractions and risky driving behaviors.

  • The Science of Safe Driving Among Adolescents

    A special June 2006 supplement to the journal Injury Prevention, this booklet is a collection of 11 articles written by our Young Driver Research Initiative Expert Panel which provide a broad understanding of driving, adolescent development, and adolescent driving.

Child Injury & Traumatic Stress

The Child and Adolescent Reactions to Injury and Trauma (CARIT) team has developed evidence-based materials (brochures and tip sheets) for parents and healthcare providers. Throughout the development of these materials, we solicited formal and informal feedback from parents and pediatric health care providers regarding the clarity, usefulness, and acceptability of the messages and the design.

    A Brief Report: Current Best Practices and Practical Tools for Health-Care Providers

    This report describes the current state of the art in screening for risk of psychological sequelae of injury, and presents guidelines regarding promising targets and methods for preventive interventions across the emergency medical services continuum.

Educational and Advocacy Tools


This report is the fourth in a series providing current data about children involved in U.S. motor vehicle crashes and the injuries suffered in these crashes. Made possible this year with the generous support of AIAM, the Report includes important new data on LATCH and tether use. It also summarizes trends noticed by researchers over the last decade, since the inception of PCPS in 1997.
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