10 IDEAS PROMOTING  YOUTH SAFETY

Idea #1: Helmet Distribution

This strategy can deliver a helmet to every child that needs one in the county-making  bike riding and skateboarding safer. To learn more visit Lesson 5: Motor Vehicle, Bike and Pedestrian Injury & Safety.

Idea #2: Safe Routes To School

This strategy can make every path to every school in the county a safe, youth-friendly environment for walking and biking. To learn more visit Lesson 5: Motor Vehicle, Bike and Pedestrian Injury & Safety.

Idea #3: The Home Visitation Program

This strategy provides first-time parents with home visit to offer support, create injury-free home environments, and enhance the child-parent relationship. To learn more visit Lesson 9: The Continuum of Violence.

Idea #4: Full Service Community Schools

This strategy provides the funding to transform schools into full service schools to enhance learning, provide comprehensive health services, coordinate afterschool programs, and sponsor parental engagement. To learn more visit Lesson 11: Risk Factors and Resiliency Factors.

Idea #5: Gatekeeper Training

This strategy promotes training for school staff, health care providers, and staff at youth serving organizations to bring awareness of depression and signs of suicide. To learn more visit Lesson 8: Suicide.

Idea #6: Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse Prevention

These evidence-based strategies include implementing party patrols, enforcing keg registration ordinances, and implementing a tax to pay for the harm alcohol causes. To learn more visit Lesson 6: Alcohol Related Injuries.

Idea #7: Big Brothers/Big Sisters

This strategy provides mentors, social support, and role models to young boys and girls. This type of program promotes resiliency factors in the lives of children. To learn more visit Lesson 11: Risk Factors and Resiliency Factors.

Idea #8: A Safety and Resiliency Center

This strategy addresses the need for a staffed center to implement policies and programs related to the strengthening of resiliency factors and the prevention of injury. To learn more visit Lesson 11: Risk Factors and Resiliency Factors.

Idea #9: A System Of Behavioral Health Care

This strategy supports making behavioral care affordable and accessible to all residents to address problems related to substance abuse, suicide, and violence. To learn more visit Lesson 7: Drug Overdose.

Idea #10: School Safety Committees

This strategy supports the strengthening of school safety committees at every school to implement evidence-based bullying and violence prevention policies and programs. To learn more visit Lesson 9: The Continuum of Violence.