Injury
Prevention and Safety
[Dewey
numbers: 363.1; 613.69]
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National SAFE
KIDS Campaign: Fact Sheets
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Information and advice on a wide range of safety risks, problems, and issues.
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Unintentional
Injury Prevention: Facts and Fact Sheets
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The leading causes of death from unintentional injuries are motor vehicle
crashes, fires, burns, falls, drownings, and poisonings. The Division of
Unintentional Injury Prevention monitors trends in unintentional injuries
in the United States, conducts research to better understand risk factors,
and evaluates interventions to prevent these injuries.
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Safety, Health
and Environmental Library: Fact Sheets
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Helpful information given on these areas: children, driving, environment,
health, and community.
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Injury
Specific Resources
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Collection of links to informational resources on a variety of types of
health and safety issues: fire/burns, transportation, poisoning, drowning,
violence, occupational, product safety, and others. Just scroll down to
the section you are interested in and explore the links that sound helpful
or interesting.
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Safe
Start
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Links to documents from the Children's Defense Fund on child safety issues.
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No
Safe Place: Kids Count Report on Children and Violence
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"As anyone who listens to the radio, watches television, or reads the newspaper
knows, America is becoming a more violent nation every year. Of particular
concern is the alarming increase in violence among children and youth,
both in our communities and in our homes. The rates of youth-initiated
violent crimes are rising dramatically, as are the numbers of young victims.
And as violence in our communities escalates, so too does violence within
our homes."
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Domestic
Violence
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The Domestic Violence Section of the Metro Nashville Police Department
thinks that you should know some of the warning signs of domestic abuse.
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Shattered
Love Broken Lives
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Excellent series of articles from the (Rhode Island) Standard-Times on
the topic of domestic violence.
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"Friends"
Raping Friends--Could It Happen to You?
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"When you hear the word 'rape,' what do you think of? If you imagine a
stranger jumping out of the bushes on a dark night and attacking someone,
you are only partly right--because most rapes are not committed by strangers
but by men who know their victims, who often have gone out with them previously
and are supposedly their friends. This phenomenon is called 'acquaintance'
or 'date' rape."
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