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[these programs are for "unintentential" injuries, as opposed to injuries from violence -- see Youth tab above. Do we need a Violence tab?
Pedestrian Safety
Our pedestrian and traffic safety programs have focused on community capacity building and environmental justice. They have helped to shape the overall approach to pedestrian safety in San Francisco, to make all agencies involved aware that, like other health issues, pedestrian injury is a health is a greater burden on low income and vulnerable communities. Many of our interventions have worked to successfully involve communities and organizations that had not addressed pedestrian safety before, or had not received funding to address these issues. This is the beginning of a process involving changing community norms as part of a process of involving communities in organizing for access to resources and policy change.
CHIPPS
The Community & Home Injury Prevention Program for Seniors (CHIPPS) aims to prevent injuries by increasing awareness among seniors and their care givers that injuries are preventable, developing simple ways to recognize and correct injury hazards, and providing training and resource information to health professionals and the public. Since 1987, thousands of seniors and hundreds of agency staff have received training on injury prevention and safety hazard reduction. About 600 seniors have directly received the full CHIPPS intervention, 400 more have received services from some combination of CHIPPS and trained partner agencies, and many more have received some kin of home safety assistance.
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Child Car Seat Safety
Is this the right name?
California Injury Prevention Network
The California Injury Prevention Network is a collaboration among injury prevention professionals throughout the state. It is funded by a grant to our unit.
Walkability
Walking is easiest, most natural, and most commonly employed form of exercise. However, some walking environments in San Francisco are less than optimal. Our injury prevention specialists are collaborating with other City Departments in the Better Streets Program.