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The WCAAP promotes and supports injury prevention efforts throughout our state. Below are lists of local, state, national and international safety resources for both providers and parents.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
A list of driving laws for Washington State, including restrictions on teen drivers.
Learn MoreAllstate Foundation Driving Agreement
A downloadable PDF agreement for parents and teens to discuss and sign, outlining safe driving behaviors.
Learn MoreParents are the Key
This page from the CDC provides tips and discussion points for parents to help steer teens in the right direction.
Learn MoreFrom One Second to the Next
Documentary by Werner Herzog about the consequences of distracted driving.
Learn MoreDistraction.gov
The U.S. Department of Transportation offers resources and facts about distracted driving.
Learn MoreIt Can Wait
Aimed at teens, this site asks teen drivers to pledge to never text and drive; there is also a social media component.
Learn MoreThe Teen Driver
A policy paper from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Learn MoreTarget Zero
The Washington State Patrol’s highway safety plan.
Learn MoreLocal Driving Ordinances
Local ordinances related to inattentive driving.
Learn MoreNational Driving Laws
Driving laws throughout the U.S. pertaining to distracted driving.
Learn More King County | Injury and Violence Prevention
Public Health – Seattle & King County’s Violence and Injury Prevention Unit focuses on a number of critical yet entirely preventable health issues including deaths and injuries from motor vehicle crashes, firearms, and drownings.
206.263.8160
Spokane Regional Health District | Injury Prevention Program
Health educators work to prevent injuries among children, adults and seniors. Priorities include: child passenger safety, pedestrian and bicycle safety, senior falls prevention, suicide prevention, and highway traffic safety projects.
509.324.1530
Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative
Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative works by identifying and helping young people who are at a vulnerable point in their lives.
Learn More Safe Kids – Washington
Find links to Safe Kids coalitions around the state.
Learn MoreWashington Poison Center
Learn MoreLOK-IT-UP
Many guns are stored unsafely. Locking up firearms can greatly reduce unwanted access and save lives. LOK-IT-UP encourages the safe storage of firearms.
Learn MoreHarborview Injury Prevention & Research Center
Dedicated to reducing the impact of injury and violence on people’s lives through research, education, training and outreach.
Learn More TIPP
TIPP is an educational program for parents of children newborn through 12 years of age to help prevent common injuries. TIPP provides age-related safety counseling sheets.
Learn MoreConnected Kids
Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure offers child healthcare providers a comprehensive, logical approach to integrating violence prevention efforts in practice and the community.
Learn More TEACH-VIP
TEACH-VIP e-learning is an online self-paced curriculum in violence and injury prevention, designed for health and public professionals and other health care providers. TEACH-VIP addresses a broad range of issues pertinent to understanding and preventing injuries, violence, and suicide. It includes extensive content on using data to understanding injury problems and creating programs to address these problems.
Learn MoreSafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature
The online source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention. Curated and fully searchable database of injury related scientific abstracts.
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