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Safe Kids Florida

Contact the Violence and Injury Prevention Section

Each year, approximately one out of 10 Florida children, ages 19 and under, are injured seriously enough to require a visit to the emergency department or admission to the hospital for medical treatment. The mission of Safe Kids Florida is to prevent and reduce the number of unintentional injuries and deaths of Florida's children.

Florida Safe Kids

  • Promotes awareness and education among parents, caregivers, and other child injury prevention advocates.
  • Supports public policies and programs that reduce injuries among children and youth.
  • Provides safety education to children and youth in the major risk areas of traffic safety, water safety, fire safety, poisoning (including medicines), falls prevention, and suffocation.

Safe Kids Florida is part of Safe Kids Worldwide. The Florida Department of Health is the lead organization for Safe Kids Florida. There are currently 15 local Safe Kids coalitions covering 42 counties throughout the state.

Safe Kids Florida Strategic Plan

To improve our collective impact on unintentional childhood injury prevention, local Safe Kids coalitions in Florida, working with Safe Kids Florida and Safe Kids Florida Advisory Board, developed a strategic plan to guide our efforts over the next three years (January 2010 – December 2021). 

Local Coalitions

Local coalitions provide leadership to their communities and work to support the mission of Safe Florida Kids. They identify and target the most common injury problems in their local areas. By combining resources, they plan and put into operation strategies to address those problems by:

  • Educating adults and children
  • Creating safe environments
  • Conducting research
  • Advocating for effective laws

Coalition and chapter members reach out to their local communities with injury prevention messages, safety tools and equipment, and hands-on training. Through grassroots efforts, Safe Kids Florida programs reach families and communities to prevent unintentional childhood injuries and deaths.

For more information, please contact the local coalition in your area, email the Safe Kids Florida Coordinator or call 850-245-4455.

Global Coalition

Safe Kids Worldwide is a global non-profit organization working to help families and communities keep kids safe from injuries.

Safe Kids Worldwide works with an extensive network of more than 400 coalitions in the U.S. and partners in more than 30 countries around the world to reduce childhood injuries from motor vehicles, sports, drownings, falls, burns, poisonings, unsafe sleep, and more.