Rainbow Injury Prevention Center

 Use your fire safety knowledge to help benefit Cuyahoga County residents. As a part of Liberty Mutual’s Be Fire Smart program, Shaker Heights Fire Department could win a $10,000 Fire Safety Pledge Award. Shaker Heights Fire Department plans to commit the $10,000 grant to our Safe Kids Coalition to initiate a photoelectric smoke alarm education program across Cuyahoga County. You can help by logging onto www.BeFireSmart.com/VanessaLaJudice between September 1-October 31 and completing a ten question fire safety quiz. Credit Shaker Heights Fire Department upon the completion of your quiz and spread the word to everyone in your community. We need as many people to vote as we can! Help Shaker Heights Fire Department and Safe Kids Greater Cleveland win this grant for Cuyahoga County!

I. Announcements/Old Business

Spring Calendar Fundraiser
• BIG thanks to all those who helped! Raised $760 for Safe Kids Buckle Up Program.
DUI Task Force Wins National Award
• The Cuyahoga County DUI Task Force was awarded 2nd place in the International Association of Chief’s of Police National Law Enforcement Challenge.
• This marks the fourth time the Task Force has been recognized as one of the top two multi-jurisdictional traffic safety programs in the country.

 Kick off your summer and help support the Greater Cleveland Safe Kids Coalition by renewing or starting a membership at BJ’s Wholesale Club! BJ’s is extending a special offer to University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital’s Greater Cleveland Safe Kids Coalition.  For every new or renewal membership now through July 31, 2010, BJ’s will donate $5 to the Greater Cleveland Safe Kids Coalition.  

A 15-month corporate membership is $35, which is a saving of $10, and you also receive three additional months and your second membership card FREE! As for renewal memberships, BJ’s will add 15 months to your current expiration date through this special offer.

Learn more about BJ’s Wholesale Club and receive this special offer today!

Submit a photo with a seat belt theme and you could win a $500 gift certificate!

How does it work?
A study by Meharry Medical College, the historically black health professions institution in Nashville, showed that if more African Americans used seat belts, 1,300 lives could be saved every year. We want your help getting the message out that our families are stronger and safer when we buckle up.

Submit a photo that represents the theme “Keep Your Family Tight!” and shares the message that seat belts are important to your family. You can submit a photo of your family, friends, church group or anything you feel respresents family.

Mission
The Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Injury Prevention Center would like you to have lots of fun this summer at your family reunion, but take some simple steps to make sure your family and friends get there safely. Whether you’re going down the street or across the country, wear a seat belt every time you drive or ride in a motor veicle and remind your family and friends to buckle up.

Prizes
One lucky winner will receive a $500 gift certificate for a Backyard Barbecue!

Contest Timeline
Submission period: Sunday, July 4, 2010 12:00 a.m.-Monday, September 6, 2010 11:59 p.m.
Voting period: Sunday, July 4, 2010 12:00 a.m.-Monday, September 13, 2010 11:59 p.m.

Visit us at www.wzakcleveland.com and click on Contest to enter!

Help East Cleveland students get the new school year off to a great start! Donate a new school item today! The goal is to supply 300 book bags with school supplies for children in need. Drop off donations to the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center (14801 Shaw Avenue, East Cleveland OH).  Supplies will be distributed at the 2010 East Cleveland Teen Summit on August 21. The Teen Summit is an event hosted by Bridges of Hope, a coalition of agencies in East Cleveland, to help decrease substance abuse through education and leadership development.  Please have supplies to Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center by August 13.

Supplies needed:

• Book bags
• Paper
• Pencils
• Pens
• Glue
• Pencil Sharpeners
• Rulers
• Folders
• Binders
• Dictionaries
• Locks
• Crayons
• Spiral Notebooks
• Composition books
• Scissors
• Calculators
• Erasers

Pause to Click is a program designed to increase seat belt use among kids in 6th through 8th grade.  The multimedia contest portion of the program gives kids a chance to use their creativity for a good cause. Students can compete by creating songs, video PSAs or posters with a seat belt message.   In addition to getting the chance to have their entry made into a radio or television PSA or billboard that will be seen or heard by people all over Greater Cleveland, kids have the chance to win cash–$250 for first place, $100 for second and $50 for third place.

This is a great program that kids can work on during the summer and we only asked that our adult members pass the information on to their students, co-workers, family and friends!  For more information and to submit entries kids can go to www.pausetoclick.com.  We will be accepting submissions through August 6, 2010.

University Hospitals produced video to help promote Click It or Ticket.

Speedway and the Cuyahoga County Safe Communities Coalition join forces to reward motorists for Buckling Up

 Just in time for motorists to fuel up and hit the road for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, law enforcement agencies and Safe Communities members partnered with Speedway gas stations across Northern Ohio to remind motorists to buckle their seatbelts before leaving for their destinations.  On Friday, May 28, motorists wearing their seatbelts when they entered select Speedway locations were rewarded on the spot with cookies from Speedway and a Click It FOR a Ticket voucher offering a chance at bigger prizes to be awarded at the end of the Click It or Ticket mobilization in June.

19/43 Action News: CIOT Day and Night enforcement and the Click It or Ticket Rock Hall Gobo

 Buckle Up: Most Deadly Crashes Happen at Night!

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – 19 Action News has uncovered a new reason for you to watch out when you’re driving this weekend—especially at night.  When the sun goes down, the seat belts are apparently coming off. Half of all deadly crashes in Ohio happen at night.  The Cuyahoga County DUI Task Force has just kicked off another Click It or Ticket campaign to get more folks like you to buckle up.  Now, University Hospitals found that over a three year period, during the day 49 percent of people who died in car crashes wore seat belts. But at night, only 31 percent of those who died in crashes had buckled up.  State troopers have added patrols in the Cleveland area on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights–all spring and summer long. They’ll monitor sections of highway where the most alcohol related crashes have happened.  Local cops are stepping up night patrols for the summer season too so click it or get a ticket and be safe!

Channel 3: CIOT Rollover Convincer Demo

 Click it or Ticket: Rollover simulation

This is a huge travel weekend, and you’ve probably heard of the “Click it or Ticket” campaign. But many people still don’t wear their seatbelts.   Jennifer Walker from the Rainbow Injury Prevention Center appeared on Channel 3 News Today Saturday morning, to talk about the importance of wearing a seatbelt.

Check out more Click It or Ticket Photos at Cleveland.com.

Click It or Ticket 2010