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An award winning fire safety program developed by BIC Corporation with Fireproof Children Company and other fire safety and child development experts. The multi-media kit includes a 20-minute video, the Keep Away!/Alejate card game, activity boards and a teacher’s manual. It is designed especially for children ages three to five, and teaches four important lessons in fire safety: My Friend the Firefighter; Stop! Drop! And Roll!; Crawl Low Under Smoke; and Safe for Play! Keep Away!. Available in English (with English and Spanish video & activities) and French. To play play safe! be safe! games online or to learn about play safe! be safe! workshops for educators visit: http://www.playsafebesafe.com/ To play play safe! be safe! games in Spanish, visit http://www.ninossegurosninoscontentos.com. To play play safe! be safe! games in French, visit http://www.jsuisprudentjsuiscontent.com To download an order form for a play safe! be safe! kit click here or contact us.
Train the Trainer Fire Safety Education for Preschool Children and Families This program is funded for one year through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. These workshops are presented free of charge to preschool teachers and childcare program directors in states with high rates of fire-related death and injury for children. The framework for the training is the award-winning preschool program play safe! be safe!®, developed by BIC Corporation with the assistance of Fireproof Children and other child development specialists. Please click here for more information.
American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org The American Academy of Pediatrics’ TIPP (The Injury Prevention Program) age related safety sheets provide safety and unintentional injury prevention information pertinent to each developmental stage. TIPP also has webpages devoted to fire safety in the home. See especially the safety section of the site’s You & Your Family page. The Idea Bank http://www.theideabank.com/ An online catalog of resources including videos, books, speaker & program contact information, online discussion groups about juvenile firesetting and child fire safety issues. Also offers a grant writing guide, grant writing workshop and online course. The National SAFE KIDS Campaign http://www.safekids.org/ The National SAFE KIDS Campaign’s mission is “Protecting Children From Their Number One Killer…Unintentional Injury.” Take special notice of the site’s safety tips addressing top causes of unintentional injury in young children including fire & burn, with printable checklists in English and Spanish. SAFE KIDS also offers resources designed specifically for teachers including an activity book and pedestrian safety kit. NFPA Learn Not to Burn® http://www.nfpa.org/Education/LNTB/LNTB.asp The NFPA’s Learn Not to Burn® Program is designed to teach children from kindergarten to 8th grade, critical life safety materials in a non-threatening way. Learn Not to Burn offers classroom curriculum in addition to resource books and a preschool program in English, Spanish and French. NFPA’s Risk Watch® http://www.nfpa.org/riskwatch/home.html Risk Watch offers parents, teachers and safety advocates ways in which to teach kids to make healthy and safe choices. Risk Watch: Unintentional Injuries teaches kids ages 14 and under how to recognize and avoid unintentional injuries. Offers “Parent Pages,” “Teachers Tools,” “Advocate Aids,” in addition to a "Kids Only" section and answers to frequently asked questions.
SOS Fires’ Juvenile Firesetting Intervention Resource Site offers resources for parents and professionals of all disciplines including articles of interest to those working with juvenile firesetting behavior, a parent/teacher resources page, contact information for juvenile firesetting programs across the country and a resource exchange page allowing the reader to ask questions, share experiences and learn from others USFA Kid’s Page http://www.usfa.fema.gov/kids/ Interactive information pages for kids about smoke alarms, planning an escape route, and home fire safety with quizzes to test knowledge. Also offers online safety hazard game and printable activities. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission www.cpsc.gov In addition to reports of unsafe products and product recalls, the CPSC’s website offers safety tip sheets and pages designed for kids with interactive safety games. Overviews
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