Rainbow Injury Prevention Center

UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Injury Prevention Center wants to work with schools in Greater Cleveland to raise awareness about bicycle safety during National Bicycle Safety Month. We have special offers to keep students safe this spring as they ride their bikes.

Students can participate in National Bike to School Week from May 6-10 (Bike to School Day is Wednesday, May 8) as they learn more about bike safety and the advantages of staying active. Schools can get involved by having students ride their bikes to school at least one day during this week. Participating schools will receive a curriculum with four lesson plans, four activities to complement the lesson plans and eight master handouts, as well as giveaways, including pencils, stickers and tattoos, to provide to students who ride their bikes during the week. Additionally, we will donate a helmet(s) to raffle to a student(s) who rode their bike to school. 

If you would like to participate in Bike to School Week, please fill out the Participation Form. The Bike to School Week curriculum and activities are a great addition to your spring programs. If you would like to participate in Bike to School Week or to order bulk bike helmets, please contact Mandy at mandy.thomas@uhhospitals.org or 216.983.1105.

University Hospital Rainbow Injury Prevention Center has an opportunity to attend a free social media seminar we are hosting for Cyrid Media. Heather Kramer is the director of social media for Cyrid and is also a member of our Safe Kids Coalition.  She has offered to conduct this learning opportunity to help educate our members and partners about how they can better use social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) to engage their followers.  Heather’s presentation will cover best practices, content brainstorming, audience engagement, and platform reviews as well as an open discussion on how use social media to spread our health and safety messages AND grow your own connection to your own customers and grow your business. 

We hope you can join us for this educational and informative presentation.  Details are below.  Please contact Mandy (mandy.thomas@uhhospitals.org or 216.983.1105) directly to RSVP. 

Social Media Seminar

Date:    Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Time:    10:00 a.m.

Place:   Euclid Public Library – Lake Room

            631 E. 222^nd Street

            Euclid, OH  44123         

Greater Cleveland Safe Kids/ Safe Communities

Meeting Minutes

March 5, 2013

Old Business

International Walk to School Day Rockin Recess – Congrats to Drake Elementary in Strongsville!

CPS Refresher – thank you to the 123 technicians that came out to the refresher.  Please send your thoughts/feedback to Tom – Thomas.vilt@uhhospitals.org

Face the Facts. Face the Back – campaign launched in February with bus tails, billboards, social media and online presence

New Business

National Poison Prevention Week – contact Nikesha (nikesha.yarbrough@uhhospitals.org) for more information

• Poison Poster Contest submissions end on March 15
• Themes for every day during Poison Prevention Week (March 17-23)

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UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital’s Injury Prevention Center is offering a Child Passenger Safety Refresher Class on Wednesday, February 27 for certified CPS technicians.  The Refresher will provide the six hours of continuing education required for recertification. The class will combine classroom education and an opportunity to see changes to the 2014 automobiles that may impact the installation of child restraints as well as a session on what’s new in child restraints. Each organization that sends a technician will receive a 2013 LATCH manual and a car seat manufacturers’ instruction CD—provided in partnership with Safe Kids Ohio and State Farm. For more details and to download the registration form, click here. If you have any additional questions, please contact Tom Vilt at 216.983.1115. 

 Greater Cleveland Safe Kids/Safe Communities
Meeting Minutes
January 8, 2013

2013 Meeting Dates and Locations:

• March 5 – EuclidPublic Library
• May 7 – Cleveland Metroparks Ranger Department Headquarters
• July 9 – WestlakeRecreationCenter
• September 17 – Recognition Meeting TBD
• November 12 – Parma

Old Business

Mocktail

• Thank you to everyone that helped to make it a huge success!
• Thanks to our amazing mixers!
  • Best Mocktail Overall: ParmaPD; Best Presentation: ParmaPD; Crowd Pleaser: RemingtonCollege
• This year was the most successful event to date. We raised $25,301!

Noon Year’s Ever

• Thank you to our volunteers that helped with the thousands of parents and kids at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and participated in our Kohl’s Safe Rides for All Kids activities.

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Safe Kids/Safe Communities

Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, November 13

Old Business

• Annual Recognition Meeting – thank you to all the members that attended the Annual Recognition Meeting! Thank you all for being Volunteheroes!!
• Celebrate My Drive –Thanks to all those that helped promote or attended the event on September 15!Clevelandwas the top market!
  • Congratulations toNorth OlmstedHigh Schoolfor winning the $100,000 grant from State Farm!
  • Also, congratulations toRocky River, Brecksville/Broadview Heights,Westlake,StrongsvilleandBrooklynHigh Schoolsfor receiving $2500 mini-grants from State Farm!
• Seat Belt Survivor Games – we had a tailgate party on September 15 at the Cleveland Classic game at the Cleveland Browns Stadium.
  • Thanks to our 25 volunteers and 24 teams.  We had 250 seat belt pledges signed!
• National Child Passenger Safety Weekend – THANKS to all the volunteers!
  • Saturday, September 22 we checked 103 seats and distributed 49 seats at the new YMCA inWarrensville Heights.
  • Sunday, September 23, we checked 75 seats and gave away 42 seats at Dave’s Mercado onCleveland’s near west side.
• International Walk to School Day – Thanks to the 30 schools that participated in walks during the first two weeks of October.
  • Drake Elementary in Strongsvillewon the Rockin’ Recess by having over 95% of students walk during the week.
• Boo at the Zoo – Thank you to the volunteers!
• Boo-kle Up Pledge Campaign – text promotion with Fox 8 to win 4 pack of tickets to a local haunted house.
  • 300 people pledged; 5000 fliers distributed

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The Rainbow Injury Prevention Center is looking forward to seeing you tomorrow night, 5:30-8:00 pm, at the Rainbow Injury Prevention Center’s 13th Annual Holiday Mocktail Party and Safe Kids Benefit at the Cleveland Marriott East, 26300 Harvard Rd., Warrensville Heights (near the intersection of I-480 and I-271). It’s not too late to RSVP and no one is going to want to miss it—there are great non alcoholic cocktails being mixed up by our community partner agencies and a fabulous mix of silent auction and raffle items that could help you make a serious dent in your holiday shopping! Here is a copy of the auction guide so you can take a look and make up your shopping list.

Some of you have mentioned that you have friends or colleagues who cannot attend, but would like to support the fundraiser and aid in our efforts to reduce childhood injuries and keep Greater Cleveland families safe and healthy. We’re happy to help! Anyone who cannot make it can still purchase raffle tickets (75 for $50, or 25 for $20)—just have your friends take a look through the raffle section of the attached book and let us know the numbers of the items they’re interested in and the number of tickets they want in each basket (i.e., “put 25 tickets in the Nexus tablet basket”), and we’ll take care of the rest. Here is the pre-order raffle ticket form to make it easy. We’ll contact any winners who aren’t present when the winning raffle tickets are drawn to make arrangements for pickup. There are some exceptional silent auction packages this year as well, but you’ll have to be present at the fundraiser to enter your bids.

You’re going to want to come out and cheer on our mixers who will be competing for the coveted prizes of best mocktail and best holiday display (see the auction guide for a sneak peek at their terrific recipes)! The party is a great way to soak up some holiday cheer and get some great ideas to make sure the designated drivers and nondrinkers at your holiday parties can still be part of the festivities.

Please contact Mandy Thomas (Mandy.Thomas@UHhospitals.org or 216-983-1105) to RSVP or to order pre-labeled raffle tickets.

We can’t wait to see you and your families. Feel free to pass the invitation along to friends, family or colleagues.

The Mocktail Chinese Raffle and Silent Auction items are ready! We have some terrific items this year! Try your luck at winning some great items with your Chinese Raffle tickets. The silent auction has amazing packages that be sure to sold at a great price!  Put a shopping list together and get some great Christmas presents in a very budget-friendly way!

Click here for the complete guide!

See you at the Annual Holiday Mocktail Party this Thursday, November 29, 2012 at the Cleveland Marriott East (26300 Harvard Rd., Warrensville Heights) from 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM!

Please join us for the 13th Annual Holiday Mocktail Party and Safe Kids Benefit

                Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012
                              Time: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
                     Where: Cleveland Marriott East
                                26300 Harvard Avenue
                                 Warrensville Heights

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Want to avoid hand cramps from filling out those raffle tickets? Want to save money on your raffle tickets?

Special pre-event ticket sales
$50 for 75 raffle tickets
Only available through Monday, November 26.

Pre-purchase your raffle tickets and we will hae them ready and pre-labeled for you at the registration table! Tickets at the door will be $1.00 a ticket! Take advantage of this great deal!

Complete and return the pre-purchase order forms to 216.983.1180 (fax), mail to 10524 Euclid Ave., WLK 3024 Cleveland 44106 or Mandy.Thomas@UHhospitals.org

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We need Mocktail Mixers!!

If your agency is interested in “mixing it up” for a good cause, contact Chrystal at chrystal.gullett@uhhospitals.org or 216.983.1108. Fill out the Mocktail Recipe Form to get your recipe in!

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Help us solicit prizes!

 Donate items and baskets for silent auction and Chinese raffle! Help us locate sponsors to help support our coalition’s injury prevention efforts!