Child Health & Safety
Promoting Healthy and Safe Child Development
Children's works to improve the health and safety of children and families through education programs, health care systems, and policy change.
Programs serve families and providers and include:
- Patient and family education
- Community education and outreach
- Injury prevention and health promotion
- Quality improvement
- Patient safety
Best practices, assessed needs, multidisciplinary teams, parent and family involvement and evaluations help guide activities.
The following Health Education programs are part of Children's advocacy agenda:
- Increasing the use of booster seats among children 4-8 years old.
- Decreasing drowning among children and youth and increasing the use of life jackets among both children and adults.
- Increasing the use of safe firearm storage.
- Creating safe communities and reducing injuries among children and youth in Central and Southeast Seattle as part of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Seattle.
- Promoting immunizations.
- Promoting exercise and healthy eating to reduce obesity.