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Texas Health Resources - Child Automobile Safety Initiative
Created by a stakeholder advisory committee, the Child Automobile Safety Initiative (CASI) includes four main components: free car seat safety checks, community-based education, school-based education focusing on kindergarten to 2nd grade, and training of child passenger safety technicians. The focus is protecting children from unintentional injury from motor vehicle collisions.
What is it?
Created by a stakeholder advisory committee, the Child Automobile Safety Initiative (CASI) includes four main components: free car seat safety checks, community-based education, school-based education focusing on kindergarten to 2nd grade, and training of child passenger safety technicians. The focus is protecting children from unintentional injury from motor vehicle collisions.
Who is it for?
Parents, grandparents, caregivers, educators, and children.
Why do they do it?
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 3 to 14. Research on the effectiveness of child safety seats has found them to reduce fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for toddlers in passenger cars.
Impact
Texas Health educates more than 2,000 people annually on child passenger safety. The CASI school-based program shows an average increase of 18 percent of children riding in booster seats.
Contact: Amanda English, MPH, CPH, CHES
Community Outreach Coordinator
Telephone: 682-236-7073
E-mail: amandaenglish@texashealth.org
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