Schools play an important role in promoting the health and safety of children and adolescents by helping them establish lifelong health patterns. Injury prevention and safety is an important topic to teach for prevention and establishing safety behaviors. Such safety behaviors include learning how to wear a bike helmet, properly wearing a seat belt, hazards of distracted driving, crossing the road properly and understanding local laws/rules. Attendees will learn about the various injury prevention topics that can be integrated into health courses and supportive resources that can be used in the classroom.
