Every year, nearly 10,000 children come to our Emergency Department with an injury that could have been prevented.

Safe Kids Mid-South is our answer to the overwhelming numbers of accidental childhood injuries and deaths. By teaching safety, improving laws and helping to make homes, schools, community centers and streets more child friendly, we are working to make those numbers smaller and smaller.

Safe Kids includes a number of different “Action Teams” that address various injury risk areas and determine prevention strategies. These include:

Car and Road Safety

      Bicycle Safety

• Helmet Fitting Stations
• Bicycle Safety Rodeos

  Child Passenger Safety

• Child Safety Seat Check Ups
• CountDown2Drive (Pre-teen Education) 

  Pedestrian Safety (Walk This Way)

• Cross Guard Appreciation 
• Environmental Changes (Great Streets)
• School Zone Committees

Home Safety

      Infant Safety

• Safe Sleep

  Family Safe Check

• Falls Prevention
  
• Fire and Scalds
• Firearms Safety
• Medicine & Liquid Laundry Detergent 
• TV Tip-Overs

Sports and Play Safety

• Splash Mid-South (water safety)
• Playground Safety
• Sports Safety Clinics      
• Toy Safety

Emergency Preparedness

• Basic First Aid Classes
• Family and Friends CPR
• Stop the Bleed

Safe Kids Mid-South is part of Safe Kids Worldwide, global campaign dedicated to the prevention of unintentional injuries to children. An overall decrease in accidental injury has been documented since the local coalition's inception in 1992.

For more information, please call 901-287-6730.