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The Alliance hosts workshops to help facilitate the creation and sustainability of a European Child Injury Prevention Network to share resources, good practice and to determine bench-marking criteria and comparison information. The workshops offer the opportunity to develop partnerships and strengthen links between academic researchers and practitoners.
2008 workshops
The Icelandic Safety House hosted this seminar in Reykjavík, Iceland on June 5, 2008, with the following presentations:
- Overview of mortality and national policies addressing child restraint systems in Europe (powerpoint presentation), by Morag MacKay, programme Manager, European Child Safety Alliance, EuroSafe
- Child Restraint Systems usage in Iceland (powerpoint presentation), by Herdís L. Storgaard, Manager, Icelandic Safety House
- Use and misuse of child restraint systems in Portugal (powerpoint presentation), by Helena Botte, General Secretary APSI (Portugal Association for Child Safety and Injury Control)
- Injuries among children in cars in Iceland (powerpoint presentation)
- Overview of national policies addressing home safety in Europe (powerpoint presentation), by Morag MacKay, Programme manager, European Child Safety Alliance, EuroSafe
- Taking control of tap water temperature - campaign to prevent scalding from hot tap water (powerpoint presentation), by Ásdis Gíslason, Project manager OR
- Injury Prevention Training for Professionals in Austria (powerpoint presentation), by Gudula Brandmayr, Managing Director Grosse schützen Kleine / Safe Kids Austria
- Parental and Health Professional Injury Prevention training in Iceland (powerpoint presentation), by Katrín Davíðsdóttir MD, Pediatrician, Center for Child Health Services
- European Action on Adolescent and Injury Risk (AdRisk) Project Results Presentation (powerpoint presentation), by Ursula Löwe, project coordinator AdRisk, Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit
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2007 workshops
Child Injury Prevention Seminar
The Edinburgh City Council hosted this seminar with attendance of the Scottish Home Safety Committee and the members of the European Child Safety Alliance in Edinburgh on December 5, 2007, with the following presentations:
- The Scottish Child Injury picture in relation to Europe (powerpoint presentation), Prof. David Stone, Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology at University of Glasgow
- Risk Education - keeping children safe at home (powerpoint presentation), Dr. Jenny McWhirter, Risk Education Advisor, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
- The role of regulations and standards to advance child safety (powerpoint presentation), Ms. Anne Smith, Chair Child Safety Working Group ANEC
- Child Injury and the 21st Century Environmental Health Agenda, (powerpoint presentation), Prof. George Morris, Scientific Policy Adviser, Scottish Executive Health Department
Alliance Bi-annual workshops
So far one bi-annual Alliance workshop has been held in 2007 in Graz on June 12: Home Safety Campaign Seminar relating to children and violence, with following presentations:
- Children and violence, what is the scope of the issue and its relationship to child development (powerpoint presentation), Dr. Katharina Purtscher, LSF Hospital Graz
- Children and violence in the European Region, a public health approach to preventing child maltreatment (powerpoint presentation), Dr. Dinesh Sethi, WHO
- Prevention of Intentional Violence in Flanders (Belgium), an evidence based approach (powerpoint presentation), Erwin van Kerschaver, Kind en Gezin
- Environmental Scan of children and violence actions and actors in Europe and Member States (powerpoint presentation), Ms. Klara Johansson, Karolinska Institute
2006 workshops
The European Child Safety Alliance hosted 2 workshops at the 1st European Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion 25 - 27 June, Vienna, Austria.
Each workshop was 1.5 hours long and was one of several concurrent break-out sessions at the conference.
Presentation Joanne Vincenten 'Child Safety Strategies'
Presentation Joanne Vincenten 'Communications'
Alliance workshops
Information on the two previous workshops held in Sintra, Portugal, 2002 and Stockholm, Sweden, 2004 is available below and can also be found in the Archives:
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