2nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament for CHEO

Plan-it Safe is the Child and Youth Injury Prevention Centre at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. The Centre was established in July of 1997 to encourage a structured and systematic approach to the prevention of child & adolescent intentional and unintentional injury in and around Eastern Ontario.

Plan-it Safe's mission is to increase local capacity, strengthen public policy, ensure effective programming and advocate for the creation of safe environments to reduce the toll injuries take on children and youth in Eastern Ontario. The Centre works in collaboration with many of the community partners who deliver injury prevention programming. It’s core competencies are injury surveillance, research and program evaluation, consultation on program planning, implementation and evaluation, advocacy and professional and public education.

Current Priorities Include:

  • Local surveillance and effective dissemination of data
  • Enhancing regional injury initiatives through facilitation of Eastern Region Injury Network (ERIN) and the provincially funded Early Years Injury Initiative
  • Home injuries
  • Summer and winter sports and recreational injuries (e.g., playgrounds, drowning, cycling, skateboarding, tobogganing and snow-boarding)
  • Traffic-related injuries (children and youth as drivers and passengers)

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