October 2011 - Posts

• New Community Water Safety Campaign Project

  On October 13, the Minister of Health, the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, has confirmed the approval for funding of a project proposal jointly submitted by the Royal Lifesaving Canada and the Canadian Red Cross. Entitled Community Water Activity Safety Campaign (CWASC) the project is a significant national drowning prevention effort funded under the Active and Safe Injury Prevention Initiative.  The Lifesaving Society and the Red Cross will, in the next 18 months, engaged more than 250 communities across the country in a major educational initiative to increase the safety of the youth (0-19) near, on and in the water. The Lifesaving Society and Red Cross want to sustain ongoing awareness and lifejacket access in communities to prevent drowning and reduce incidents of near drowning. Supported by social marketing tools, the campaign intent is to disseminate 25,000 lifejackets package with educational resources kit particularly in rural, remote, northern and open-water communities.The project is inspired by successful similar campaigns run by the Lifesaving Society in Manitoba and Alberta and by Red Cross throughout Atlantic Canada. The funding contribution agreement has been signed and we are already working on the staffing process. Next week you should see a job posting for the Project Manager position. We plan to start the initiation phase of the project at the beginning of November and more details will be released at that time.The Lifesaving Society and the Red Cross would like to thank the Canadian Government for this $1.46 M contribution. We also wish to commend the excellent work of the proposal team composed of Barbara Kusyanto from Alberta, Carl Shier from Manitoba, Shelley Dalke and Caroline Tees from British Columbia. Further details will be shared as the campaign progresses. Posted Oct 31 2011, 02:40 PM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments

• Child Passenger Safety Symposium/Symposium sur la sécurité des enfants en voiture --November 15 2011

  Hello/Bonjour: English: Safe Kids Canada and the AUTO21 Research Team invite you to attend a Child Passenger Safety Symposium on November 15, 2011 from 9:00AM – 4:00PM in Vancouver, British Columbia.  This is a pre-conference session attached to the National Injury Prevention Conference.  You may also attend the session by web-conferencing from the convenience of your own community.  Please see the attached advertisements for more information or contact Kristen.gane@sickkids.ca. Everyone is welcome to attend this session. However registration for “on-site” attendance is required due to space limitations.  Registration for the web-conferencing option is also required.  There is no fee for either option. Please contact Kristen Gane at kristen.gane@sickkids.ca to register.  Indicate whether you will be attending in person or by web-conferencing.  There may be some locations where participants will have the option of coming together in groups for the web-conferencing in order to network with each other and to more actively participate in the discussions.  If you are willing to host one of these group sessions, please contact Kim Mundle at kim.mundle@iwk.nshealth.ca . Francais: SécuriJeunes Canada et l’équipe de chercheurs d’AUTO21 vous invite à assister au Symposium sur la sécurité des enfants en voiture le 15 novembre 2011 de 9h à 16h, à Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique. Ceci est une session pré-conférence attachée à la Conférence canadienne sur la prévention des traumatismes et la promotion de la santé. Vous pouvez aussi assister à la session par conférence Web dans le confort de votre communauté. S’il vous plait, regardez les advertisement attaché ou contacter Kristen Gane à kristen.gane@sickkids.ca pour l’inscription. Tous sont bienvenus à participer à cette session. Par contre, dus aux nombres de places limitées, une inscription est requise pour ceux désirant assister sur place. L’inscription pour la conférence Web est aussi requise. Il n’y a aucun frais pour l’une ou l’autre des options. S.V.P. contacter Kristen Gane à kristen.gane@sickkids.ca pour l’inscription. Veuillez mentionner si vous serez présent sur place ou si vous utiliserez le service de conférence Web. Il pourrait y avoir des endroits où les participants auront l’option de se regrouper pour la conférence Web afin de réseauter  et de participer plus activement aux discussions. Si vous voulez être l’hôte d’une de ces sessions de groupe, S.V.P. contacter Kim Mundle à kim.mundle@iwk.nshealth.ca. Posted Oct 19 2011, 07:45 AM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments

• Protect Your Melon: Snow Sport Helmets Round 2

  Café Scientifique Nov. 16, 2011 from 1-4pm Stanley Park Room II, Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver ACIP is pleased to be supporting Protect your Melon: Snow Sport Helmets – Round 2 which will be held in conjunction with the Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference and continue the discussion from the 2009 Café Put a Lid On It. Warm drinks and light refreshments will be served at Café style tables designed to set an “après ski” ambiance.  A local media celebrity will introduce our panelists: Alison Macpherson, York University; Brent Hagel, University of Calgary; and Shelina Babul, University of British Columbia who will discuss the research related to helmet use, from both an engineering and behavioural perspective.  This will be followed by a short Q & A from the audience, before breaking out into a World Café style discussion of powerful questions that will tap divergent thinking and allow for generation of collective wisdom. Please RSVP: gscime@cw.bc.ca Posted Oct 19 2011, 07:37 AM by Jennifer Heatley with no comments