September NewsBlast

2010 Moving Children Safely Conference 
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The Moving Children Safely Conference will be held on March 15-16, 2010 (pre-conference sessions will be held on March 14th) at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California. This year's conference will highlight innovative ways to improve communities, traffic environments, and programs to promote safety for young pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicle occupants (ages 0 to 18). For more conference information, visit http://www.injurypreventionnetwork.org/moving-children-safely-conference. 

September at a Glance:

September 2009

National Preparedness Month

September 12-18, 2009

National Child Passenger Safety Week 

September 20-26, 2009

National Farm Safety & Health Week

September 20-27, 2009

Fall Prevention Awareness Week

September 21-26, 2009, San Diego, CA

14th International Conference on Violence and Trauma

Related Articles and Abstracts:

General Injury Prevention

• New State Injury Indicators Online Query System

• CDC: Adding Power to Our Voices-Framing Guide for Communication about Injury

Fall Prevention

• CDC MMWR QuickStats: Annual Rate of Nonfatal, Medically Attended Fall Injury Episodes by Age Group- National Health Interview Survey, United States.

• A Major Public Health Issue: The High Incidence of Falls during Pregnancy.

Pedestrian Safety

• Child Pedestrian Safety: Parental Supervision, Modeling Behaviors, and Beliefs about Child Pedestrian Competence. 
• Modeling the Effects of Land Use and Temporal Factors on Child Pedestrian Casualties. 

• Stop Versus Yield on Pedestrian-Involved Fatal Crashes in the United States.

Motor Vehicle Occupant and Traffic Safety

• Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries: Evidence of Effectiveness from Systematic Reviews. 
• An Evaluation of Graduated Driver Licensing Programs in North America Using a Meta-Analytic Approach.  
• Drivers' Misjudgment of Vigilance State during Prolonged Monotonous Daytime Driving. 
• Evaluation of Experience-Based Fatigue Countermeasures. 

• A Novel Approach for Analyzing Severe Crash Patterns on Multilane Highways.

ATV Safety

• Cost Effectiveness of Wearing Head Protection on All-Terrain Vehicles.

Poison Prevention

• More Effort Needed to Prevent Unintentional Drug Poisoning in Children.

• Medication Overdoses Leading to Emergency Department Visits Among Children.

Intentional Injury Prevention

• When to Suspect Child Maltreatment: Summary of NICE Guidance. 

CIPN Funding Alerts:

Sunflower Foundation- Sunflower Trails Grants
Deadline: September 22, 2009

Verizon Foundation Grants
Deadline: On-going

Kids' Plates Funding Opportunities:

Kids' Plates Gap Grants
Deadline: September 25, 2009

Kids' Plates Professional Development Grants
Deadline: May 15, 2010 or until available funds are depleted