Current Projects
After the Fire: The Teachable Moment
Children are especially vulnerable to the trauma of fire. Through the Greater Rochester Red Cross, Prevention 1st Foundation contacts the classroom teachers of children affected by a fire, and provides them with age-appropriate classroom activities and materials to help deal with the emotional trauma of their students and to teach fire safety and fire prevention.
Home Safety Training Workshops
We offer half-day train-the-trainer workshops, customized for audience and typically including fire prevention and home fire drills, poison prevention, falls prevention and hazard removal. Made possible by grants from caring donors, these workshops are created and delivered by Fireproof Children Company.
Home Fire Drill
We created the Home Fire Drill campaign to update and enhance the biannual message “Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries” to: Change Your Clock; Check Your Batteries; Practice Your Home Fire Drill; www.homefiredrill.org™
Many smoke alarms now have 10-year batteries; people tend to ignore the original "change your batteries" message. Our new message reminds them they should check even 10-year batteries to make sure they are still working. We connect our message to the biannual time change because both the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) recommend checking smoke alarms at least twice a year.
Home Fire Drills: Does Your Family Know What to Do?
Prevention 1st Foundation, the City of Rochester and Monroe County created a 15-minute video featuring two Rochester families who learn that they were not as well prepared as they thought to respond when the smoke alarm sounds, and how to plan and practice a home fire drill.
Help Mikey Make It Out
Created with funding from the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, with the assistance of Senator Joseph Robach, this interactive animated game was named a Grand Winner in the 2009 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence. This engaging teaching tool lets children and their parents and teachers learn what to do when the smoke alarm sounds. It is one of the most popular elements on www.homefiredrill.org.
We sponsor a Practice Your Home Fire Drill Poster Exhibition in partnership with the Office of the Mayor and the County Executive. In Spring 2009 more than 70 posters were displayed around Monroe County including City Hall, Rundel Library, the Rochester Museum & Science Center and Strasenburgh Planetarium, Marketplace Mall, and Mall at Greece Ridge.
Specifically for people with developmental disabilities, we created a four-color, two-sided flyer on ‘Plan and Practice a Home Fire Drill’ and ‘Have smoke alarms that work,’ based on materials from the Home Safety Council and using models from the Arc of Monroe County and School of the Holy Childhood. With funding from the Golisano Foundation and NYS Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, 10,000 copies have been printed and are being distributed.
Mikey Makes a Mess
This children’s storybook, in English and Spanish, is published by Fireproof Children and distributed through Prevention 1st Foundation.The book provides important safety education in a fun, engaging story book which has received praise from educators and parents alike.
More than 130,000 copies have been distributed nationwide through teachers, daycare providers, Head Start programs, universities, hospitals, fire departments and state fire marshals, Girl Scouts and other community organizations.
Prevention 1st Safety Links Resource Center
Provides news, tips and links to safety-related resources and information on choking and suffocation, drowning, fall prevention, fire and burns, general injury prevention, gun safety, motor vehicle safety, natural disaster injury prevention and poison control.
Monroe County Medical Society Articles
Prevention 1st Foundation has been selected by the Monroe County Medical Society to provide articles related to injury prevention for its quarterly publication Doctor's Advice, distributed through physician offices countywide.
Keeping Children With Special Needs Safe in the Home
Prevention 1st Foundation provided expertise in home safety and in teaching people with developmental disabilities to this video series produced by Safe Kids and MetLife Foundation.
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