Young Children: Priority One. a Project Kit for Kiwanis Clubs--Addressing the Needs of Children, Prenatal Through Age Five

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AUTHOR Rice, C.; And Others TITLE Young Children: Priority One. A Project Kit for Kiwanis Clubs--Addressing the Needs of Children, Prenatal through Age Five. INSTITUTION Kiwanis International, Indianapolis, IN. PUB DATE [93] NOTE 197p. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom Use (055)

EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Alcohol Abuse; Beginning Readit.; Child Abuse; *Child Developm,nt; *Child Health; *Community Services; Lead Poisoning; *Parent Education; Pregnancy; *Prenatal Care; Preschool Education; Program Guides; Program Implementation; Smoking IDENTIFIERS *Child Safety; Kiwanis Clubs; *Maternal Health; Project Head Start; Reading Is Fundamental

ABSTRACT This Kiwanis Club project kit contains ideas and instructions for implementing programs that meet local needs in the areas of maternal and infant health, child care and development, parenting, and safety and p.tdiatric trauma. The kit begins with an overview that explains how to assess need and how to plan, implement, and evaluate a project. Tip sheets on fund raising, project evaluation, and cooperation with other organizations are included, as well as needs assessment survey forms. A project idea list outlines over 40 possible projects in the 4 need areas for clubs to consider. Service bulletins offering detailed instructions for implementing specific service projects are:(1) "Reading Is Fundamental"; (2) "Head Start";(3) "Scald Burns";(4) "Smoking Awareness: A Campaign for Pregnant Women";(5) "Parenting Fair";(6) "The Children's Miracle Network Telethon"; (7) "Smoke Detector Safety"; (8) "Pediatric Trauma";(9) "Home Safety Checklist"; (10) "Awareness and Prevention of Child Abuse"; (11) "Shaken Baby Syndrome"; (12) "Parents Anonymous"; (13) "Parenting Education"; (14) "Immunizations"; (15) "Alcohol Awareness for Pregnant Women"; (16) "Preventing Lead Poisoning"; and (17) "Home Visitation Programs." The bulletins contain background information, planning and implementation advice, and additional resources, and may also include sample forms, letters, and press releases. (TJQ)

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Research studies indicate a clear need to place greater for the emphasis on preventing problems among at-risk children from prenatal care to age five Committee for Club Economic Development Chairman

Medical ev!dence suggests that children are remarkably resilient with the appropriate remedial help they will bounce back from early traumas and deprivations ..the longer ameliorative efforts are postponed, the more difficult. extensive, and cost/y they become Committee for Economic DPvelopment iwanis has a challenge The problems facing our youngest citizens before it. require a meaningful and long-term commitment by Young children, the members of Kiwanis. So, many of the activities prenatal through age five. promoted for Young Children: Priority One are more need our help, and we're ambitious, continuing projects that will require a looking for the most Kiwanis club to work in partnership with nearby effective, comprehensive Kiwanis clubs and other organizations. These ways to help them. projects can have a tremendous long-term impact on In the first few years, children are rapidly crime, drug abuse, school dropouts, adolescent developing...physically...mentally ...emotionally. pregnancy, and other deeply rooted societal ...socially. They are vulnerable: Anything that problemsif Kiwanis clubs, and their members, blocks their development has a long-term impact on become organized advocates for the young child! them and on our society. We pay a price in higher In order for Young Children: Priority One to taxes and in a reduction of our humanity. have this impact. every Kiwanis club is urged to Various experts say that 10 to 20 percent of participate: young children are being developmentally blocked. By conducting a needs survey in its community. Some will grow up to be less capable than they could have been. Some will grow up with By developing at least one project that addresses handicaps that could have been avoided. Some will a need of young children in the community. never have a chance to grow up at all. By working closeR with other organizations that That is why Kiwanis International has help young children. developed the Young Children: Priority One programand done so in consultation with By learning about Iodine Deficiency Disorders authorities in the fields of child development, social (IDD) and how Kiwanis can eliminate this services, nutrition, health, education, safety, and worldwide problem. pediatric trauma. The leading organizations in By making young children the club's number one helping young children have joined the Priority One service priority. Advisory Council, to work with Kiwanis on thk program through national offices and through local affiliates.

On present trends, more than 100 million children will die from illness and malnutrition in the 1990s.UNICEF

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Almost two thirds of the 14 million child deaths each year are accounted for by just four specific causesdiarrhea, respiratory infections, meas;es, and neonatal tetanus. The great majority of these deaths could be prevented at very low cost. UNICEF

The best way to lower the incidence of low birthweight is to ensure that women receive adequate prenatal care.... About 80% of the women at high risk of having a low birthweight baby can be identified in the first prenatal visit and interventions to reduce the risks can be implemented. National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality

The immunization level among young children Is about 60%, leaving hundreds of children not vaccinated. In some inner cities and rural areas, the rate is about 50%.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

BEST COPY AVAILAKE DESCRIPTION Young Children: Priority Oneaddresses the 3. ParentingAsa parent once observed: A child needs of children, prenatal through age five. Each doesn't come with an instruction manual. All parents club is urged to survey its community to identify the need information and support. Some face more greatest local needs of young children. There are stress or lack background that would help them four areas of possible need that clubs should develop parenting skills, and they may need special investigate: assistance from someone trained to listen. All parents need helprole models, someone to learn 1. Maternal and Infant HealthPregnant from, or perhaps a chance to get away from the women need to see a doctor regularly, eat nutritious pressures of parenting for a few hours. meals, and exercise to have healthy babies. Just as important. they need to avoid drugs, alcohol, and 4. Safety and Pediatric TraumaFalls.burns. tobacco. As simple as this may seem, many women poisonings, and other common accidents injure or don't know that their habits can harm their babies, kill millions of children each year. Yet, with proper and others cannot afford the health care they need. precautions, most accidents can be prevented. It Babies also need proper nutrition and health care, simply requires education and installation of safety but some mothers can't afford or don't know how devices. A child whoisseverely injured can't be to provide these. treated in the same manner as an injured adult. The child's body responds to the injury differently, need 2. Child Care and DevelopmentParents different procedures are required. and he or she needs to know that, while they are at work, their children medical equipment that fits a small body. Many are in clean, safe environments, nurtured by medical professionals know these problems exist, but qualified care givers. However, many parents have a thcy need additional training, equipment. and a difficult time finding any affordable child care, so referral network to properly treat severely injured they make unfortunate compromises on quality. children. Young children learn through their play if they are provided with an appropriate environment and adult guidance. Children cannot learn if they don't have an opportunity to explore, if there aren't toys and books that develop skills, or if parents and care givers fail to interact with them.

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SIBILITIES For each of the past five years there were over 1,200 child abuse related fatalities; in 1991, more than four The responsibilities for Young Children: children a day died from Priority One are different from those of other maltreatment.National Committee for the Prevention programs. Lieutenant governors and district of Child Abuse chairmen will help develop larger projects and monitor club projects. For Young Children: Priority One to be successful, each club's Young Children chairman and president need to: Attend any special training session or division council meeting at which the Young Children program is presented. Deveiop and implement at least one project that addresses an important local need of children, prenatal through age five. Support the division project on needs of young children. Educate the club about Iodine Deficiency Disorders (1DD). Report activity to the club secretary and the lieutenant governor (or division chairman for Young Children). Using scantron forms included with this kit. Low birthweight babies are 40 times more likely report activity for Young Children to the to die in the first month of life than babies who International Office. The initial report is due by weigh more. Low birthweight infants are twice as likely to suffer one or more handicaps. October 1 (the beginning of the administrative such as mental retaroation, deafness. year). Quarterly reports should be sent by the blindness, physical limitations learning tenth of January. April, July, and October. disabilities, delayed speech. autism, cerebral palsy. epilepsy, or chronic lung problems National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality

7 TRY MAE THE JOB OF THE CLUB CHAIRMAN The First Month: Preparation Attend (and ensure that the club president attends) the division meeting on Young In order to accomplish those five tasks, the Children: Priority OneThelieutenant governor club Young Children chairman needs to assume (or the division Young Children chairman, if one is responsibility quickly. Though this will not always appointed) will introduce some of the local experts be possible, the chairman should start working in on needs of young childrenpeople who can help August. In the first month, he or she should clubs put together good projects. This will also be concentrate on preparation. the meeting at which the division makes a Review all of the materials in this kit and commitment to develop a division-wide project for carefully read this overview and the project the Young Children program and develops a idea listTheclub chairman for Young Children: committee to oversee the project. As your club's Priority One needs to understand the service Young Children chairman, you should plan to objectives of this program well enough to explain represcnt your club on the division committee. them to the club, especially to the board of Warning: Depending on the area and the lieutenant ,qrectors and members of the Young Children governor, this meeting may occur later. Don't delay Lommittee. It may be helpful to distribute copies of other steps while waiting for this meeting. the fact brochure or this overview to the club's Develop a plan for the second month of board. This kit will also guide the chairman through committee operationsThisshould include due the steps of deweloping a solid service project. dates for: Meet with the outgoing club chairman for Training the Young Children committee. Young Children: Priority OneYourclub Assigning responsibilities. probably has implemented projects addressing the Conducting a survey of community needs. needs of young children since the Young Children: Priority One program began in 1990. Meet with the Choosing a project and securing approval from outgoing Young Children chairman to learn more the club's board. about previous action, ongoing projects, and local Contacting local expertsfor the survey and contacts. Build on the experience of pr;or Young to arrange club programs. Children committees by continuing or expanding Arranging for a speaker on Young Children: successful programs. Priority One early in the administrative year. Send in the first reportInthe front pocket of Meet with and train members of the club this kit is a set of scantron reports. Please read the Ynung Children committeeCopyand instructions and complete the initial report as soon distribute pages in this kit that will give an as you start preparing for your year as chairman. overview and pass around the rest of the kit. More The information you provide (and requests for help) important, however, is what is said about the will be compiled and given to your district service focus, the expectations placed on committee chairman for Young Children: Priority One. members, and the likely scope of the project to be implemented. By the end of the training session, each member needs to have a clear responsibility and a due date.

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Month Two: Identifying the Need Develop a project proposalWorkingwith experts, the committee should develop a plan to The most important phase n developing any address the chosen need. If a major problem is being project is identifying the need to be addressed. The addressed, the project may not be a complete entire committee should be involved in this process. solution, but it should have a significant impact. The so that as much information as possible is gathered. plan should identify starting and completion date.E, Conduct the needs surveysInthe front costs, volunteers needed, the service hour pocket of this kit are six cards labeled "Needs commitment, all collaborating groups and their Survey" that each list questions on a particular area likely contributions, and the ultimate benefit to the of needs: Health Services. Maternal and Infant community. Health. Early Childhood Programs, Parenting, and Secure approval for the projectBy the Safety. On one side of each card, there is advice on October (or possibly November) meeting of the possible sources of information. On the other side club's board of directors, theYoung Children are the questions to be answered. If the club is chairman should present the committee's plan and clearly interested in one or two of these topics, use request approval. The presentation should include a only those cards. Otherwise, assign a card to each summary of the survey process the committee member of the committee and ask for a report in undertook and the facts it learned about the chosen three weeks. Share with the committee members the need. local contacts introduced by the lieutenant governor of your division and the "Priority One Advisory Develop an action planOncethe project is Council" list in the front pocket of this kit. approved, the chairman should meet with his committee and the club president to develop an Develop relationshipsSharewith the action plan: a list 01 all the steps that must be taken. committee members the local contacts given to you Next to each step should be the name of the person by the previous club chairman and the lieutenant responsible and the expected completion date. Also, governor. If the club chairman and the lieutenant leave space to write in the actual completion date. governor have not provided contacts, request assistance from the district chairman forYoung Children: PriorityOne. Urge committee members Implementation to treat the experts as more than just sources of Once the action plan is established, the information. The club will need to work closely chairman's major job is to make sure the committee with some of these people once a project is chosen. and rlub adhere to the planned scheduleand to They need to be friends of the club. Select a problemThecommittee, working by Good home visitor programs can cost as itself or in consultation with some of the local little as $2,000 a year. experts, will need to review and discuss the needs Welfare and service costs surveys, and choose one problem to address. It for at-nsk families who do should be a significant problem in the community, not receive early but it must also be one that will galvanize the entire intervention can De as high as $40,000. club to action. National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse 7 9 solve the problems that ari:.The problems can be Office. The lieutenant governor has a presentation anything, from dealing with an unanticipated aboutYoung (.'hildren: Priority Oneon the same obstacle to motivating (or replacing) someone k ho is ideo cassette as the goals presentation. not completing an assignment. In order for such a Reporting---TheYoung Childrenchairman must system to work, the chairman needs to explain officially report on progress in two ways. By the clearly to each committee member his or her fifth day of each month, provide the president and responsibilities and monitor progress. Three other secretary with a copy of the action plan that shows responsibilities remain with the chairman: which steps have been completed. On the plan. also Collaboration In most cases, the project will be indicate the number of wrvice hours tall time put developed and implemented in cooperation with into the project by club members) and the funds other organizations. This means that the Young expended on the project during the month. The Children committee must invest time working with secretary will put this in the Official Monthly the leaders of the other organizations, defining Report. responsibilities, sharing expertise. and developing The second report system occurs quarte. .a the rapport necessary for effective communication. the front pocket of this kit, there are five report The more organizations brought into a project, the forms, designed to he read by an elt ,:tronic scanner. more ambitious and more effective it can bebut The ininal report should be sent to the International only if they truly collaborate. Office by October I(the beginning of thc administrative year). At the end of each quarter of Educating the Club Club members will support the Kiwanis year. the chairman should complete a a project with enthusiasm only if they understand quarterly report and mail it to the International the need and feel comfortable with what they are Office These reports must be mailed to the asked to do. This requires education aboutYoung Program Development Department by the tenth day the specific project chosen Children: Priority One, of January. April, July, and 0,.:tober. by the club, and the specific roles that members can play. It is the chairman's iesponsibility to make sure this happens in three ways. Evaluation First. theYoung Childrenchairman should To truly measure the success oi a project, the provide the program chairman with the names of final step must be an evaluation. The evaluation can four or more possible speakers on the needs of be as simple as going back to the respondents of young children. This will ensure that there is a the needs survey and asking about the impact of the program onYoung Children: Priority Oneat least club's project. The people who benefited from the once each quarter project also can be surveyed. Second. theYoung Childrenchairman should 'To better understand the impact of the project, educate the club about the chosen project. A theYoung Childrencommittee could develop presentation on the project could he one of the four methods to measure the project. The most basic quarterly programs onYoung Children,certainly an approach is to count the number of people effective way to describe the need and the design of benefiting and measure the benefits. However, a the project. However, the education shouldn't stop better approach is to define the goal of the project there. The chairman should report current progress in quantifiable objectivesthat is, results that can at least once each month. be measured. The committee then "measures" the Finally, theYoung Childrenchairman may status quo before the project begins and after it want to borrow a videotape onYoung Children: ends (or is fully implemented). to see whether the Priority Oneor some of the needs addressed in the project achieved its objectives. program. A limited number of tapes are available To learn more about evaluation, refer to the tip for lending by district chairmen and the Program sheet on evaluating in the front pocket of this kit. Development Department at the International 8

10 Many parents of young children are children themselves. In poor families, parents are often so overwhelmed by economic demands they can't focus on their children's broader needs. Few parent education programs are available. Children s

Defense Fund i The cost of graduating a sick infant from neonatal intensive care ranges from $20,000 to $100,000 per infant. Overall lifetime health and custodial care for a handicapped child may cost as much as $300,000 to $400,000 per child. The cost of prenatal care, not including labor and delivery has been estimated to be $400 per pregnancy, according to the Institute of Medicine. Preventive care for an infant's first year costs about $600.National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality

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Preschool programs that target the disadvantaged and stress developmental learning and social growth represent a superior educational investment for Every month at least 56,000 society.Committee for children are abused. Economic Development Children's Defense Fund

9 11 ME DIVISION RESOURCES PROJECT AVAILABLE The lieutenant governor and the division have The club Young Children chairman needs to be a significant role to play in a Young Children: well informed about the Young Children: Priority Priority One program. The reason for this is One programcomfortable explaining it to the club simple: many of the needs that clubs should address and answering questions of potential supporters of require large, collaborative efforts to have a projectsand able to find real experts when they're significant impact. Over the ncxt few months, many needed. This kit makes that possible. divisions will form committees composed of representatives of the clubs in the division that Printed Materials will work with other organizations. In some cases, they may form a coalition to address a major The printed pieces in the pockets of this kit problem. such as infant mortality or the need for provide almost everything the club chairman needs child care. In other cases, the group may form a for research, implementation. and reporting. partnership to work on a specific project, with each Survey CardsEach of the cards provides a list organization taking on certain responsibilities. of questions that will help the Young Children Your club needs to participate in the division committee deteimint the greatest needs of children committee and the project it develops. The first step in the community. will be to join the committee and participate in its meetingsto help it work with other organizations Project idea List--This list suggests some of thc and define its service goal. Later, both funding and many ways that clubs can address the most common service time are likely to he needed, so the club needs of children prenatal through age five. Once should be kept informed about the committee's the committee has chosen the need it will address. activities. this booklet can aid in developing an appropriate project. On the back of the Project Idea List is an order form for additional service bulletins. Service BulletinsEach of the service bulletins explains in great detail how to implement a particular project. Service bulletins that do not appear in this kit arc described in the Project Idea List and can be ordered from the International Office. Tip SheetsTip sheets on fund raising, collaborating, and evaluation offer advice on phases of project development that tend to be handled separately from the service activity itself. This advice should apply to almost any project the club may undertake for Young Children: Priority One.

10 12 Resource InformationAclubYoung Children chairman should always feel there's someone available to help with a question. The list titled "District Chairmenfor Young Children: Priority

One" provides an address and phone number for JM. your district's best source of help on this program. In addition, there's a list of organizations that have agreed to be on an advisory council forYoung Children: Priority One.These organizations address needs of young children, and many of them will provide information by mail or phone. Samples and Order FormSamplesofthefact brochure and pocket calendar are enclosed for review. These pieces can be used to educate the club or community aboutYoung Children: Priority One and about Kiwanis. Both of theseand several related jewelry itemscan be purchased by using the order form in this kit. Report MaterialsMailthe initial report to the Kiwanis International Office by October 1 (the beginning of the administrative year) and quarterly reports by the tenth of January, April, July, and October. Scantron forms are included with this kit.

People On every level of Kiwanis, there are sources of help or advice available. The lieutentant governor is the first person to contact. More difficult questions can be handled by the district chairmanfor Young Children: Priority One orthe Some studies suggest that as many as International Committee member assigned to your one-third of the children eligible to enter district. Other clubs can also be an excellent source kindergarten are not ready to do so. for practical advice. Another study concluded that as many as 50 percent of youngsters are placed in The Program Development Department at the grades one or two years ahead of their Kiwanis International Office is available 8:30 a.m. developmental age.Committee for to 4:45 p.m., CST, Monday through Friday. Economic Development Additional information is available on many projects, and the staff amay be able to suggest other sources of information. Call 1-800-879-4769 or 317-875-8755. The final authorities on almost all projects will be representatives of other organizations. This is another reason to establish local contacts and work in collaboration. If this is not possible, the national offices of organizations can be contacted. A list of 11 organizations that might prove useful is in the front pocket of this kit. 13 AWARD PROGRAMS There are two banner patch award programs for Young Children: Priority One. Lieutenant governors administer the first program, called the "Outstanding Club Project" award. A lieutenant governor can nominate any project that addresses a need of children, prenatal through age five, and supports one of the four service focuses: maternal and infant health, child care and development, parent education and support, or safety and pediatric trauma. To qualify a project also must meet two of four criteria measuring service hours, funds, networking, or impact. The lieutenant governor presents the award to the club, preferably at a division meeting. The second award program, called the "Partnership Project" award, recognizes larger projects developed by collaborative efforts that address a need of children throughout a larger arca or division. District Young Children chairmen and governors nominate recipients of this award.

=_-:: (419.::T.. Tip Sheet on Fund Raising Young Children in the Business Community PRIORITY ONE

Many projects suggested for Young Children: Priority One are collaborative efforts thatinvolve not only residents of the community, but businesses, social service agencies, elected leaders, the medicalprofession, and the media. Such large-scale and long-term projects will generally require a good deal of capital to completeand Kiwanis clubs should be prepared to assume responsibility for a significant funding role. Traditionally, Kiwanis fund-raising activities have solicited community residents to either makedonations or purchase items ranging from peanuts or Christmas tree,' to tickets. To support an ambitious newproject, clubs may need to consider other fund-raising techniques, su :h as supportfrom the business community.

A good source for donors in the business community is your members' contacts.Encourage members to share the names of businesses, professionals, and individuals who maybe interested in supporting club projects for Young Children: Priority One. Other good sources are the Chamber of Commerce, professional societies,and trade associations. Your club could appeal to several businesses during their regularly scheduled meetings.

Preparing to Solicit Business Support The value of soliciting from the business community is that larger sums may be collectedthan from individuals. Thus, less effort is required than in soliciting dozens of people. However, the solicitation mustbe better planned and polishLd. When meeting with businesses, whether one-on-one or in a group, be prepared to discussthe basics of your club, the project for which you are asking support, how the funds (or in-kind resources) will beused, what funds or resources your club has already committed, what you need,why your project will interest your audience, and what the "return on their investment" is.

Don't assume that your project has no concrete return to offer businesses for support.Positive public image has become a powerful force in the business world, and your club can easily help a businessby promoting it as a sponsor or co-sponsor of your project. Kiwanis clubs can publicizebusiness support through use of posters, public service announcements, newspaper ads, billboards, and plaques on physical facilities.That's the basis of many of the projects described in the next section. In addition to the public relations value, studies have shown that projects that improvematernal and child health, increase the availability of quality child care, or impact early education save money for thebusiness community over the long term by building a healthier, more reliable,and better-skilled work force. Contact the Program Development Department at the International Office for a list ot documents on these benefits.

Learn as much as you can about your audience before contacting them, and be receptive toinformation you learn during the meeting. Anticipate needs and questions and have responses ready. Be sincereand enthusiastic. Don't be too broad and vague in your requests; rather, be specific and optimistic. Useall resources offered to you. Appeal to your audience not only as concerned business persons, but as parents,grandparents, and community residents as well. And be sure to leave specially prepared literature so no one willforget your club or your request.

Information on traditional fund-raising activities can be found in Bulletin ADM #6,Financing Kiwanis Activities, available upon request from the Kiwanis International Office. 1 5 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Approaches to Developing Support When approaching the business community for support, break down the cost of your project based on the number of children who will be served. For instance, if your project will cost $25,000 to serve 100 children, that's an average cost of $250 per child. Ask each business to sponso- the same number of children:

as it has employees as its employees have children as the owner has children or grandchildren

Donations can also be made in the name of particular children. Ask individual businesses to sponsor one aspect of the service project, or one aspect of your fund raiser for the project. If you're hoping to bring in a prominent speaker, ask one business to pay the speaker's fee and another to cover travel costs. Ask others to pay for rental of facilities, costs of audio-visual equipment and staff, concessions, decorations, and other necessities. Credit the donations in a program, on placards, and in the introduction before a speech. Offer free publicity in exchange for a contribution. Ask a billboard company to donate the use of one billboard, and advise businesses that all those contributing will have their names put on the billboard as a public thank-you for their support. Similarly, ask newspapers to donate advertising space, or television and radio stations to donate air time (or at reduced costs) and offer to publish or broadcast a public thank-you to all contributing businesses. Ask local businesses to make contributions based on sales of particular items or services, or based on a percentage of all sales during a certain period. In return, your club will help the businesses publicize the campaign and encourage consumers to purchase those products and services.

For example, your club might persuade the management of the local Super Burger restaurant to donate fifty cents for each children's meal purchased within the next three months to your club's project. In return, your club announces the promotion via public service announcements on radio and television and on posters. Increased consumer awareness creates more business for Super Burger, generating a greater contribution to your club project, the results of which benefit the entire community.

This is known as cause-related marketinga very "hot" strategy for gaining business support for charitable causes. Some businesses offer special discounts, which gives consumers even more incentive to participate and results in larger contributions from the business.

Urge local merchants to donate special offers on goods and services to a coupon book. Secure coupons for a variety of restaurants, services, leisure activities, and local attractions, in order to appeal to a wide range of consumers. A sales strategy must be developed, and coupons designed, printed, and bound into booklets. Businesses can be asked to help cover these costs, and to make the coupon books available for sale.

Success Stories The Kiwanis Club of Denver, Colorado, substantially increased the profits of its annual golf tournament by involving the business community. Local businesses were asked to sponsor all eighteen holes of the course at a newly opened country club by paying $250 for advertising at the site. Businesses also donated fifteen trips that were raffled during a dinner and dance following the tournament. The event raised nearly $15,000, enabling the club to donate money to several local social service agencies. One Kiwanis club sponsored a creative Halloween fund raiser. The club asked each business in a popular shopping mall to "purchase" a large pumpkin for $100 and decorate it in a way that reflected the goods or services of the store, then to prominently display the pumpkin at the store entrance (one central display could be arranged instead). A candy store dressed its pumpkin as a trick-or-treater, and a styling salon displayed its squash in a stylish coiffure. Passers-by were asked to vote for their favorite pumpkins by placing a quarter in a donation barrel next to each. The event was a huge success and raised several thousand dollars. Another unique fund raiser is a no-risk raffle. A supermarket raffled a $100 shopping spree for a charitable cause, with chances sold at one dollar apiece. Customers were guaranteed that, even if they didn't win the raffle, they could redeem each raffle ticket at the store later for one dollar off a purchase of $15 or more. The raffle was risk-free for the consumer and encouraged greater participation, which resulted in higher proceeds than usual raffles. Though the store ostensibly offered only $100 toward the cause, they actually contributed several hundred dollars by the time all raffle chances were redeemed. In return, the store gained a more positive public image, perhaps gained a greater number of purchases, and the raffle raised a good deal of money. 16 BEST CCPY AVAILABLE Young Oik hen Tip Sheet on Working PRORITY ONE with Other Organizations

Adding Groups = Adding Service Imagine doubling or tripling the service hours of your club and at the same time harnessing the expertise needed for more ambitious, cutting-edge service projects. This tremendous service boost is possible by working with other organizations that help young children. Whether it is called a partnership, a network, a coalition, or a consortium, the purpose is basically the same: joining forces with other groups that want to address the same community need.

As Kiwanis clubs learn about the needs of children prenatal through five, they quickly realize that the needs are far greate:- than Kiwanis alone can address. The need for partnerships and coalitions has never been greater.

Joining a Coalition In many areas, Kiwanis clubs can join forces with local coalitions that are represented on the Priority One Advisory Council (which ;s composed of national groups that are working with Kiwanis to help young children).

Safe KidsThere are more than 100 city or county-level Safe Kids coalitions. These groups address local safety concerns, many of which relate to children age five and below. To learn if there is a Safe Kids Coalition in your communityor to discuss how to create onecall Safe Kids at (202) 939-4993.

Healthy Mothers, Healthy BabiesHealthy Mothers, Healthy Babies coalitions address issues of ma.-nal and infant health and nutrition. They often operate at the state level with local coalitions of varying strengths. To learn if there is a coalition that your club could work with, call (202) 863-2458.

Forming Your Own Local Coalition Forming a local coalition can be part of the needs analysis process (it might even be substituted for it). As you contact experts and organizations about the needs of young children in the community, you are creating the HA of people to invite to a meeting. This list should include the local representatives of the members of the Priority One Advisory Council (list in kit), contacts provided by the lieutenant governor or district chairman for Young Children: Priority One, government officials, school officials, business leaders, other service clubs, and other Kiwanis clubs.

The purpose of the meeting is threefold:

1.To discuss and prioritize the greatest needs of young children in the community. 2.To explore ways that the organizations gathered in the room could work together to address these needs. 3.To get a commitment to continue meeting to develop action plans that can be implemented effectively.

1 7 Keeping a Coalition Going Keeping a coalition operating is much like keeping a Kiwanis club going. There must be: PurposeThe purpose of the group must be clear to everyone and should be in a written document.

LeadershipThe coalition must have a leader or steering committee that everyone respects and will support. This leader must have the ability to communicate with the various interest groups and treat them as equals in the coalition. The leader also should have the strength of vision to keep the coalition progressing toward its goal. PlanAn action plan that utilizes skills and resources of every group must be agreed upon. Responsibilities and deadlines for each group must be clearly defined. And there should be agreement that the leader or steering committee has the authority to intervene when an organization fails to perform its responsibility. CommunicationThe group must meet regularly for discussion, and a written report must be sent out to every representative, including those who did not attend. The needs and agenda of each organization must be understood, since their participation in this coalition effort may be only one small part of their agenda or a compromise on their intended effort. Conflicts (on turf issues, priorities, or expertise) are almost inevitable in a large coalition, so negotiation and bargaining must be standard communication tools.

RecognitionEach organization needs to be recognized for its contribution to the partnership effort in publicity that is seen in the community. While some organizations may take on greater responsibilities (and should be recognized accordingly) all publicity should make clear that no single group is "in charge" of the coalition.

EvaIuationThe coalition needs to evaluate its efforts so that every organizational member understands what part of its own agenda has been accomplished, and everyone can see the quantifiably greater results of working within the coalition. Each member of the coalition needs to self-evaluate its role in the effort to identify more efficient strategies and procedures.

ResourcesIn addition to the resources each member organization contributes to the coalition's activities (and which can be defined in the action plan), a coalition requires administrative resources. Written reports, meeting agendas, mailings, follow-up phone calls, meeting places, and coffee all need to be provided. The costs and time involved need to be defined and accepted by the group.

Forming a Small Partnership A club that conducts a community analysis before considering coalitioning may decide that it is most interested in an issue that only relates to just a few other organizations in the community. In such a case, the club could form an informal partnership with just those organizations, working out a joint plan for a specific project or to address a single need. The same concerns noted above will need to be considered, but the scale of the coordination effort is much smaller. Tip Sheet on Evaluation Young Children PRIORITY ONE

Why Evaluate? A person who kicks a ball toward a goal doesn't turn and walk away. He watches to see if he suc- ceeded. However, many Kiwanis clubs walk away from projects without really discovering whether they accomplished what they set out to do. That is the purpose of evaluation. Evaluation allows a club to learn from its mistakes and to capitalize on its successes. Depending upon the design of an evaluation, a club can learn whether:

The project was successful. The project was well designed. The project was properly implemented.

This information can improve the project as it continues. More important, it can improve the implementation of future projects by avoiding inefficiencies and exploiting strengths.

How to Evaluate

Evaluation is basically a measure of the change brought about by a service project. The simplest evaluation is to look at a problem before the project and again after the project. Whatever changes are observed may be credited to the project. A slightly more formal system of evaluation may assume the steps listed below, but the basics are the same: measure before and after.

1. Plan to evaluate the project from the time the needs survey begins. Keep the data collected on the various needs.

Example: If the statistics on infant mortality in the community inspire the club to support prenatal care, those statistics should be kept on file after the project is implemented.

2. When the need to be addressed is chosen, make sure the committee agrees on a measurable goal. I it can't be measured by numbers, agree on some sign or number that will be the goal.

Example: The parents in the community need to place 78 children in child care, but only 45 places are available. The club could decide to help create the 33 spaces.

3. Identify all methods for accomplishing the goal.

Example: The number of child care spaces in the community could be increased by expanding the capacity of current facilities, developing new facilities, or supporting family child care homes. (If one of these methods does not succeed, another one can be attempted.)

4. Decide on the questions (and/or measures) for the evaluation.

Example: A safety project follow-up survey might involve ten questions to determine the effect of a safety campaign on attitudes and behaviors.

1 9 5. Plan the evaluation process.

Example: Before a safety class ends, the evaluator should plan to survey the class members. He must write a survey, secure funding, print the survey, and choose the best time to distribute and piCk it up

6. Start the evaluation before the project ends.

Example: A survey passed out at a safety class will be completed and returned by half the class. Wait two weeks after the class ends, and only a few people will take time to complete the survey.

7. Evaluate the data. Look at it in as many ways as possible.

Example: The evaluator discovers that infant mortality has been reduced by 12 percent after a year of the Kiwanis education campaign. When he looks at the infant mortality rate for minorities, however, he finds that it did not change.

8. Use the findings.

Example: A club that installs batteries in smoke alarms can publicize the number of houses now protected by smoke alarms. Over time, the club may be able to point to a reduction in the number of fire deaths or injuries. These statistics should be publicized.

Four Types of Evaluation

Clubs may consider using four types of evFluation: 1. Survey of recipientsThe easiest way to learn about the effect of a project is to ask the people being helped. In some cases, however, they may be unable to impartially judge the results of a project, or they may feel obliged to respond positively out of politeness.

Example: A club holds a parenting fair for the community. All parents who attend are asked to fill out a questionnaire about the value of the fair.

2. Survey of expertsThe experts who helped the club identify the need are probably able to judge the effectiveness of the project. Their expertise makes their opinions worth considering, and they may have access to data unavailable to the club.

Example: Two family counselors and a social worker comment that the parenting fair really changed the attitude of some parents about proper responses to misbehavior by children.

3. Measure of changesGiven a quantifiable goal, the club can measure the success of the project by numbers. This may avoid the subjectivity of other methods, but interpretation of data can be subjec- tive, too.

Example: The club measures positive parenting behaviors to see if there is an increase in the purchase of safety items, attendance at parenting classes, use of a parent resource library, and so forth. Or, the club could measure negative behaviors to see ithere is a reduction in accidents, counseling referrals, or complaints about child abuse.

4. Survey of club membersClub members who participated in the project should be surveyed to learn how it can be improved. They may also provide observations on responses to the project.

Example: Club members who worked at the parenting fair might report that more signs should be posted or more time should be allotted between speakers. They might also report that people seemed more impressed with a particular speaker or booth. 20 NEEDS SURVEY QUESTIONS NEEDS SURVEY QUESTIONS brgPRORITY06EcaringAre therefor their programs children? that educateA ON new PARENTING parents about Ian Yes No PRiCNTYCOE161.re Clilivn Could the numberA ON cf accidents SAFETY involving young Yes No onDochildbirthHow parentingany many of educationthese parents-to-be young programs children?classes? annuallycontinue withattend classes children be reduced? treatedforunderIn the an havepastaccidental at clinics year, been andhow treatedinjury? doctors' many atHow anchildren offices'? emergency many agehave five roombeen and IsinDo therethe young community a family parents resource toknow help what centerthem resources raise in the their community? are children? available What otherservices services does itare provide? needed? ri Howuseprevented of many safety through of devices'? these parentchildrenaccidents education died? could have or proper been learnAre there how programsto be better available parents? for parents who want to familyIs there resource a parenting library? fair? 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Porter, Children M.D. community 23 24 OFFORNEEDS YOUNG PARENTS SURVEY CHILDREN QUESTIONS ANDONNEEDS CHILD PEDIATRIC SURVEY HEALTH QUESTIONSTRAUMA SERVICES children.Please give your age, the age of your spouse, and the age of your diptheria,IsavailableAreCHILD your comprehensive HEALTH community to and children whooping SERVICES freeprimary from of cough? ailmeasles, care income services polio, groups? Yes No What are the greatestbiggest problemsneeds of youngyou face children, in raising and your their children? families, DoroutineusedAre the the only following care?emergency forlrue services emergencies wards exist?of your rather hospitals than for Fluoridation in this community? 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The community.professionalAssociation associations for the Education (such as of a Younglocal affiliate Children) of the in yourNational community'sbut .. ." suggests health that services thereA "No" may or answer supportingbe a weakness to any activities. question, in the You or a qualified reply of "Yes, needshelpbulleted you in questionsthelearn community. the dimensionsdo notTry all to need get of thean to answerbechild answered, care for andevery but education "Yes/No"they will question. The needshould is thenand whatexplore action that can need be furthertaken. to learn how great the Youcommunity'sbut ..." should suggests then early thatexplore childhood thereA "No"that may needprograms answer be afurther weakness to or any tosupporting question,learn in the how activities. or great a qualified the reply of "Yes, assessmentThis survey quizis an developed adaptation by of Philipthe Healthy J. Porter, Children M.D. community need is and what action can be taken. 31 assessmentThis survey quizis an developed adaptation by of Philipthe Healthy J. Porter, Children M.D. community 32 A SERVICE BULLETIN FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITYONE Project I eaList

This list briefly describes some of March of Dimes has a catalog of the more common ways that com- Maternal and educational brochures, pamphlets, cur- munities have met the needs of young Infant Health riculums, and audiovisual programs. children. As a club's Young Children: Many of the printed pieces are free. Priority One committee chooses the Some children horn today die or Any club planning its own awareness problem it wishes to address, this list stiffer needlessly, in spite of all the campaign should request the March of can help launch the committee in its medicines and technology available. Dimes catalog and consider using one project development. Many will die because their mothers or more of its publications. Contact The projects are organized by didn't take care of themselves during the Community Services Department service topic, though there is certainly pregnancyeating poorly, drinking, of the March of Dimes at (914) 997- overlap among the service areas.It smoking, or even taking drugs. Others 4468. may prove helpful to review the entire will be permanently handicapped by list to make sure the best idea for your their mothers' "bad habits." community wasn't "hiding" under Some children won't be seen by a PROJECT: another service topic. doctor for check-ups and won't be im- Provide Prenatal Since this is not an exhaustive list, munized. They will never have a clubs are encouraged to develop their chance for wellness care or preventa- Health Care Education own solutions to local problems. tive medicine. As a result, by the time in the Workplace Please share information about they see a doctor, they often are terrib- ly ill. RESOURCES REQUIRED: original projects with the International FundingLow Office, so that the projects can be Kiwanis clubs can address these problems by educating the public and HoursModerate added to this idea list. PersonnelLow Additional information is available making sure that appropriate health on all of the projects descrbed, either care is available to all children. The March of Dimes has developed from Kiwanis International or an Ad- a series of nine seminars, titled visory Council organization. Addres- "Babies and You." designed for ses ae listed on the Priority One PROJECT: presentation during lunch hours or Advisoty Council sheet in the Young Educate the Public other periods of the workday. These Children kit. In some cases, phone seminars educate potential parents numbers are provided here for con- RESOURCES REQUIRED: about life-style behaviors that can af- venience. FundingModerate HoursHigh fect a pregnancy and encourage early and regular prenatal care. Many PersonnelModerate employers have begun to realize that their companies benefit from Kiwanis clubs can work with the programs that improve the pregnancy March of Dimes or local Healthy outcomes of workers. Mothers. Healthy Babies coalitions on a variety of awareness activities. The A Kiwanis club could be the FOCUS PROJECT: Kiwanis clubs can work with health catalyst to bring the "Babies and You" Create or Support a departments and medical personnel to seminars to a community. The club educate parents, overcome institution- can work with small businesses in the Home Visitation al barriers, and reach out into community to organize one class of Program neighborhoods. To learn more about employees for the seminars. immunization projects, request service RESOURCES REQUIRED: To learn more about "Babies and bulletin PO #14 from the Program FundingHigh Development Department at the Inter- You" contact the Community Services HoursHigh Department of the March of Dimcs, at national Office. PersonnelLow (914) 997-4468. A home visitation program sends a trained volunteer or worker into the FOCUS PROJECT: PROJECT: home of a pregnant woman or a Alcohol Awareness for Bring the "Baby Your mother to offer information and assis- Pregnant Women Baby" Campaign to tance. The home visitor can help a the Community pregnant woman secure financial RESOURCES REQUIRED: assistance and negotiate the complex- FundingModerate RESOURCES REQUIRED: ities of the health care system. As the HoursLow to Moderate FundingHigh home visitor earns the trust of the fu- PersonnelLow HoursHigh ture mother, she can also motivate her. PersonnelHigh In addition, the woman being visited A woman who drinks regularly during feels secure because she is on her pregnancy increases the possibility The "Baby Your Baby" program "home turf" and is, therefore, more that her child will be born mentally was developed in Salt Lake City to likely to accept advice on parenting, retarded or physically handicapped. counter an increase in low birth- nutrition, and medical care. Many women do not realize this or do weight babies. Since many of these A Kiwanis service bulletin on home not know how to stop drinking. Work- babies were born to mothers who had visitation programs is available from ing with other agencies, a Kiwanis not regularly visited a doctor during the Program Development Depart- club can educate the public and ensure pregnancy, the "Baby Your Baby" pro- ment at the Kiwanis International that support is available to women gram was developed to encourage Office. who want to stop drinking for their women to begin regular checkups To learn more about home visitation babies. early in their pregnancies. programs, request the booklet Home A service bulletin, PO #15, on this The campaign involves a television Visiting: Opening Doors for America's project is available from the Program documentary and public service an- Pregnant Women and Children from Development Department at the nouncements, printed materials, and-- the National Commission to Prevent Kiwanis International Office. perhaps most importantbooks of Infant Mortality, telephone (202) 205- coupons that are validated by 8364. obstetricians during regular check- FOCUS PROJECT: ups. This campaign is now being util- Preventing Lead ized in seven states and can be FOCUS PROJECT: Poisoning adapted for nearly all television Immunizations markets. Contact KUTV Community RESOURCES REQUIRED: Affairs, (801) 973-3308. RESOURCES REQUIRED: FundingModerate FundingLow to moderate HoursModerate HoursLow to moderate PersonnelLow PersonnelModerate Very low levels of lead in a child's A dollar's worth of vaccine can blood can permanently lower thc prevent death or permanent disability child's intelligence and development. and thousands of dollars in hospital Yet lead is in old paint, water pipes, care. That's why it's important for and the dirt around houses and high- every child to be fully immunized by ways. Protecting children from lead age two.

2 requires testing and removal or build in these health screenings but club announces the visit ahead of coverage of the lead source. Service often don't have funding for the fol- time, so that people will gather in the bulletin PO #I6 explains how a club low-up treatments that are needed. In village f'or medical checkups. The can prevent lead poisoning in a com- other programs, the teachers or care- club pays for the medical and dental munity. oivers know there's a need but can't supplies, and the doctor and dentist find the funding. Kiwanis clubs can and very often the Kiwaniansdonate help in a number of ways: their time. PROJECT: Professional RecruitmentFind a Develop New Heaith doctor, dentist, and nurse willing to volunteer a few hours to provide FOCUS PROJECT: Care Services for screenings and immunization. Offer Children to pay for follow-up treatments at a Deve!op a Smoking reduced rate. Awareness Campaign RESOURCES REQUIRED: Parent RecruitmentGet parents for Pregnant Women FundingVariable to ensure that all children in the com- RESOURCES REQUIRED: HoursHigh munity have the chance to participate PersonnelModerate FundingModerate in the program. Give them the sup- Hours--High plies and organizational assistance to In many communities, the available PersonnelLow get the message out. health care services for children are Club VolunteersThe paperwork, inadequate. The Healthy Children One public health expert recentl) preparation of the site, organization of program assists communities in estimated that infant mortality would the check-in lines, and other logistics evaluating the services available and decrease by 10 percent if all pregnant should be handled by Kiwanians and developing solutions to meet needs. It women quit smoking. However, parents. The club needs to make sure shares the experience of other com- many pregnant smokers don't know that the medical people lend their ex- munities that have had similar needs they are hurting their babiesor the pertise, but do not take total control of hut solved their problems through degree to which the developing the project. imaginative and efficient use of MaterialsThe club can provide fetuses can be damaged. A Kiwanis resources available in the community. service bulletin describing a public funding for necessary medical sup- If a Kiwanis club concludes that its awareness campaign on this issue is plies. In addition, it can purchase and community needs additional health available from the Program Develop- distribute pamphlets on medical care. care services for children, it can learn ment Department at the Kiwanis nutrition, and first aid. Perhaps more more about the Healthy Children pro- International Office. It provides important, the club can bring the gram by requesting literature from the reproducible materials and sugges- prizes for the children who participate American Academy of Pediatrics, tions for thc campaign's design, in the check-up or immunization pro- including a smoking cessation class (708) 228-5005. gram. Special EventOt e way to draw for future parents. people to a health care project is to PROJECT: offer entertainment. This provides an Set Up a Health incentive to come and helps the time Screening or Free pass quickly for the people standing in CHILD CARE Clinic line. Other ways to draw a crowd are prize drawings and give-aways. a visit AND RESOURCES REQUIRED: by a fire truck, or the presence of a FundingModerate to high sports celebrity. DEVELOPMENT HoursVariable Mini Medical MissionsKiwanis A human being learns more in the PersonnelModerate clubs in the Philippines and Latin first six years than at any other time in America organize health missions to his or her life. But children can't Simple health exams by a doctor needy areas. Several club members learn in a vacuum. They need toys, and dentist make it possible to solve gather materials and escort a volun- people to talk and listen to, books to simple problems that could become teer doctor and (lentist to a needy area, admire and enjoy, opportunities to ex- dangerous or permanent afflictions. where they spend the day giving medi- plore, a safe sanctuary, and warm Some programs, such as Head Start, cal and dental treatment to people hugs. Children deserve such an en- who would otherwise go without. The vironment, but for many such opportunities are not available or affordable. Kiwanis clubs can help change that.

335 In the United States, more than 10 quality child care at affordable prices, NAEYC and working with a state or million children under the age of six it will probably need to work with local affiliate to put on a seminar or have their only parent or hoth parents centers to improve or expand their series of classes at the center. For a in the labor force. In fact, only 7 per- programs and to educate the public more ambitious training program, the cent of families have the "traditional" about quality programs. club could work with a university to structure, with a stay-at-home parent A service bulletin on assisting a pre- bring training to a location that would who takes care of the children while school, child care center, or Head he convenient for workers at several the other parent is the bread winner. Start program can he requested from centers and provide financial assis- Today, child care is a necessity for the Program Development Depart- tance. The C.00perative Extension parents and for the businesses that ment at the International Office. It Service is another source of support employ them. Unfortunately, there is suggests a variety of ways in which for such training. a shortage of high quality providers of clubs can assist. Helping FamiliesTheclub could child care, and no coherent system ex- VolunteersAclub rich in turn its attention directly to the ists that solves this problem. Kiwanis volunteer time can give regular assis- chiklren and their parents, supplying clubs can he part of the solution on tance in the classroom hy reading whatever is needed, from clothing for the local level. stories or writing down those told by a child to food for the family or job In the activities suggested below, the children, supervising the training for the parent. In addition to two organizations are referred to playground or art area, or providing meeting basic needs for food and several times: the National Associa- transportation. If the club prefers to clothing, clubs could provide scholar- tion for the Education of Young sponsor a special event, it could stage ships to children from low-income Children (NAEYC), phone (202) 232- a party, picnic, or field trip. Main- families, to allow them the oppor- 8777 or (800) 424-2460; and the tenance work or assistance with tunity to participate in a quality National Association for Family Day bookkeeping are other possibilities. program. Care (NAFDC), phone (202) 347- The club could also assist by organiz- 3300. ing the recruitment and training of volunteers from churches. senior PROJECT: citizen centers, high schools, and col- Develop an Awareness FOCUS PROJECT: leges. FundingAclub with more sig- Campaign Support a Preschool, nificant funds available. or the Child Care Center, or RESOURCESREQUIREI`: ability to raise themmight adopt the FundingModerate Head Start Program school or center and supplement its HoursLow to moderate budget, buy equipment, remodel the RESOURCES REQUIRED: PersonnelModerate preschool, or even acquire a site for a FundingVariable larger center.Schools and centers al- HoursVariable Many average citizens probably ways need playground equipment, PersonnelVariable don't realize that there is a child care long-lasting toys, and consumable crisis; that affordable, quality child materials such as paints, crayons, and Preschools and child care centers care for preschool children can be dif- paper. But there may be other, less ex- ()tier settings for exploration and ficultif not impossibleto find; pected needs, like cribs, smoke learning, supervised by qualified that a majority of women with young detectors, safety equipment, a com- teachers. Children have opportunities children work; that child care workers puter, or office supplies. Clubs also they might not have at home to experi- frequently are paid less than minimum can improve child care quality in the ment, interact, and prepare for future wage; that staff turnover in child care community by providing financial in- challenges. In the United States, centers is commonly more than 40 per centives or support to programs Head Start programs are government- cent a year; and, that when those seeking NAEYC accreditation. supported preschools for under- average citizens have babies, they are TrainingManychild care workers privileged children and their families. shocked to discover they're now part have no training but genuinely want to Their purpose is to give children the of the crisis. Clubs can help educate learn more about working with "head start" they need to do well in the communityespecially new children. However, they often cannot school. If a Kiwanis club discovers a parentsabout this problem. afford to take university classes or are need in the community fo r. higher unable to travel far. A club could assist with such costs by purchasing printed materials or videotapes from

36 4 Parent EducationParents need brochure, The Full Co.vt of Quality in or a small grant from club members to learn how to choose good programs rarly Childhood Programs, which out- could solve any of these problems and for their children. The National As- lines the problems of maintaining improve the quality of care for sociation for the Education of Young quality child care standards, how they chiklren. Children produces brochures titled affect children, and what Kiwanis Licensing or Registration--Less Finding the Best Cam for Your Inl'ant clubs can do to help alleviate the dif- than 10 percent of family care or Toddler and How to Choose a ficulties. Fo,- ::opies of the brochure, providers are licensed or registered hy Good Early Childhood Program. The contact the National Association for a state agency, even though they are second brochure is also available in the Education of Young Children at generally required to be by law. A Spanish. These materials can be pur- (MO) 424-2460. club could promote licensing in the chased in large quantities and community and offer assistance in distributed through doctors' offices, working with the state agency, com- childbirth educators, baby clothing PROJECT: pleting paperwork, or modifying stores, and toy stores. Reprints of a Support Family Child homes so that they meet state licens- Parents magazine article, which is mg requirements. A club could also basically a comprehensive checklist Care Providers print a list of family care providers who arc licensed. on finding quality child care, are avail- RESOURCES REQUIRED: able from the Child Care Action FundingVariable Training---The National Campaign, (212) 334-9595. HoursModerate Association for Family Day Care Community EducationTo PersonnelModerate offers an accreditation program for educate the community about the providers, and the Council for l'.arly local child care problem, the club will More than one-and-a-half million Childhood Recognition oversees a need to research the local conditions. women in the United States provide credentialing program. Clubs could In the Young Children: Priority One home-based care to more than 5 mil- pay the fees for ;t provider to par- kit, a survey form on child care lion children. That's more than 70 ticipate in either program. In provides questions the club will need percent of the children in full-time addition, family child care providers to ask child care providers, educators child care. These care providers. may choose to participate in training of young children, businesses, and so- usually with three to six children in opportunities offered by NAEYC state cial service agencies. Atter the club their own homes, are generally less ex- or local affiliates. Working with an NAEYC affiliate or a university, a assembles its data into a report on pensive, more conveniently located, local needs and ways to 'fleet those more flexible, and have a more Kiwanis club could sponsor a one-day needs, it should publicize its findings. homelike environment than most cen- seminar or a series of workshops. The club could send the report to the ter-based care providers. However, Support VanBecause family care providers operate in their homes. news media, present a copy to the they are also less regulated and may mayor or city council, make a presen- have no trained personnel. Working they often are isolated. They cannot tation to the local chamber of with family care providers may be afford to have materials or services delivered to them, and many resource commerce, or hold a public meeting. less cost effective than working with Many of the people who provide infor- centers. In many communities they centers are closed when the working mation for the report might want to provide most of the child care, so sig- day ends. To solve this problem in Miami, Kiwanis clubs worked with help publicize it, and the club could nificant improvements probably become the main provider of activities depend On them. A Kiwanis club the Junior League and the Council of Jewish Women to purchase and equip that address child care needs. could undertake one of several a van that visits family care providers. Quality MaintenanceParents projects to improve family care in its An early childhood expert offers ad- depend heavily upon child care community. centers to provide developmental Immediate NeedsMany family vice, educational materials for the care providers, and loans of equip- education for their children. Thus. care providers can't afford equipment ment, toys, and hooks from the library quality in early education programs or needed repairs. Some require or- system. The van's personnel work for has become more and more important. ganizational assistance to plan a Unfortunately, child care centers often budget, exercise their tax rights, or the county. operate on low budgets, and have dif- apply for the Child Care Food pro- ficulty attracting and retaining gram. A set number of service hours qualified staff members. The National Association for the Education of Young Children has developed a PROJECT: Support New Family Care family care programperhaps sub- Givers--Thefastest way to increase sidized on the days when no children Expand Child Care the number of child care spaces in the are ill. A third possibility is to Services in the community may be to encourage develop a list of qualified retirees who Community development of family child care will care for sick children in their homes. The club could sponsor a homes. RESOURCES REQUIRED: meeting or seminar that explains how FundingHigh to set up a family day program and be- HoursHigh come licensed. It might also offer PersonnelModerate PROJECT: small loans, training, technical assis- Support or Develop a tance, or repairs to help start care A club may find that the real providers with properly organized and Resource and Referral problem in the community can't be equipped homes. Material on setting Agency met by existing programs. There may up a family child care home is avail- be more children who need care than RESOURCES REQUIRED: able from NAFDC and NAEYC. FundingHigh there are spaces available, or a par- Start a Program in the High ticular kind of service may be lacking. HoursHigh SchoolAhigh school may have In either case, the challenge for the PersonnelLow space tbr a center and a willing pool Kiwanis club is to find a way to create of volunteers. However, today there is the program without bearing the full A resource and referral agency a far more important reason to put a burden of its cost. provides a link between providers of child care program in the school. child care and families who need child Involve the Business Many of the students need a place to affordable care. The basic role of a resource and CommunityConvenient, leave their children while they go to child care can reduce absenteeism, referral agency is to develop files on class. A child care program will help all child care services available in the personal phone calls, and turnover at them attend school regularlyand it the same time that it builds employee cotnmunity and refer parents to the might get them through school. Infor- morale. A companyor group of groups that can hest meet the family's mation on the importance of child companiesdoesn't need to assume needs. This leads to other important care tor adolescent parents is avail- all costs for a center, nor does the cen- roles: able from the Children's Defense ter need to be on the company's Fund, (202) 628-8787. Educating the public about the premises. It simply needs to provide Develop Additional ServicesTwo availability, affordability, and enough support to make a viable, at- services commonly needed by parents quality of child care in the com- tractive program. Information on hut rarely offered by care providers munity. business involvement in child care is are extended hours and sick-child Providing training and support for available from the Program Develop- care. The club should attempt to col- current care providers that will ment Department at the Kiwanis lect information on the extent of the improve the quality of their International Office. need. If the need for extended hours prog111 Contact Colleges and is large enough, one child care center Encouraging the development of schools have or UniversitiesMany may bc willing to extend its hours be- additional care programs. need child care facilities for use by cause it will be able to afford an students and staff. In addition. many additional employee. If your community has a resource schools have faculty members who Sick-child care is an additional and referral agency, learn whether it are experts in early childhcbd develop- problem. Sick children often require has sufficient funding, personnel, and ment as well as students who need special child care arrangements. It equipment to accomplish its goals. practicums. There is great potential also leads to absenteeism in local busi- The purchase of a computer or for support of a new care center on or nesses, so financial support from the software, club support of a survey, or near campuses. businesse ; may be available as a solu- assistance in obtaining a grant could tion. The club might work with a make the agency an effective coor- hospital or clinic to set up a sick-child dinator of child care services. care center. Or, it might seek out a nurse who would set up a sick-child

6 If your community doesn't have a PROJECT: This may be accomplished by resource and referral agency, consider Set Up a Story line publicizing accredited programs, high- calling together business leaders, lighting the importance of quality child care providers, and elected offi- Phone programs for all children, and making cials to discuss the value of working RESOURCES REQUIRED: club members and other business together to establish such an agency. FundingLow leaders aware of the value of investing To learn more about child care issues, HoursModerate in early childhood programs. contact the Program Development PersonnelLow Further, clubs can help other centers Department at the Kiwanis Interna- and programs become accredited by tional Office. To learn more about As many libraries have already dis- working with local NAEYC affiliates, thus increasing the number of high- resource and referral agencies, contact covered, children love to hear stories quality resources in the community. the National Association of Child over the phone. For a child whose Some of the ways clubs might par- Care Resource and Referral Agen- parents cannot read to him or her, this ticipate include raising funds to help cies, (507) 287-2020 or 285-1523. may be the only way to hear a story each day. This is a simple project. If the center cover accreditation fees and materials; helping the center maintain the library agrees to cooperate, the a qualified staff by helping it provide FOCUS PROJECT: club purchases a phone machine that adequate salaries and benefits; assist- plays a tape over and over, pays the Develop a Reading Is ing with improvements and upgrades monthly charge for the phone line, Fundamental (RIF) to facilities to meet health and safety and promotes the new "Story line." If standards; assisting in training for Program there are club members in good voice, staff members; and helping obtain they can help record the stories. RESOURCES REQUIRED: educational materials appropriate for Libraries report heavy use of their FundingModerate the ages and numbers of children en- storylines, before and after school, at HoursModerate rolled. bedtime, and at times when children PersonnelModerate More information on NAEYC ac- are asleep! creditation can be obtained by Children don't learn to read if thcy contacting the National Association aren't exposed to books. Part of the for the Education of Young Children solution, therefore, is to make sure PROJECT: at (800) 424-2460. that childrenespecially those who Assist with Program don't have books at homereceive a Accreditation book to take home. That is where Reading Is Funt1amental (RIF) enters RESOURCES REQUIRED: PROJECT: the picture. FundingVariable Distribute Materials The RIF program puts books in the HoursVariable That Promote Reading hands of children, to excite them PersonnelVariable about books and motivate them to RESOURCES REQUIRED: read. A club can develop a RIF pro- Early childhood development and FundingModerate gram for a preschool, Head Start education is delicate work requiring a HoursModerate program, or kindergarten. Many clubs high degree of sensitivity to the needs PersonnelHigh have done so over the years. Al- and conditions of young children. though RIF is a U.S. organization, the Kiwanis clubs can help make the com- The Youth Plus literacy program has assembled a list of books, information on how to set up the pro- munity aware of early education gram can be used by a club in any programs that have committed to a brochures, and posters that help country. high-quality curriculum by being ac- parents encourage their children to read. These are materials that a club A service bulletin on setting up a credited by the National Association could distribute directly to parents or RIF program can be requested from for the Education of Young Children the Program Development Depart- (NAEYC). purchase and place in a library. They ment at the International Office. tell about pre-literacy activities, con- trolling television viewing time, and tips for improving reading. Request

7 Publications to Ik lp Parents En- special events can draw a large num- FOCUS PROJECT: coura,qe Their Children to Readfrom ber of -plc to a parenting fair. Parenting Education Youth Plus at station WQED, in Pitts- C the parents come. the exhibitors burgh, (4 I 2) 622- I 49 . will have their chance to educate and RESOURCES REQUIRED: nform. FundingHigh A service bulletin on parenting fairs HoursLow to High can he requested from the Pmgrani PersonnelLow 41111111.11111 Developinent Department at the PARENT Kiwanis International Office. Just as parents-to-he attend a series of classes to prepare for childbirth, EDUCATION many parents would profit from clas- AND SUPPORT FOCUS PROJECT: ses on some of the questions that As every parent knows, once the Awareness and develop after mother and baby come baby airives, life is never the same. hotne from the hospital. There are a Prevention of Child number of professionally developed The changes and stresses are some- Abuse times difl'icult for any parent but and run pn)grams designed for new parents, all prents, or parents in being prepared can help. Parents need RESOURCES REQUIRED: crisis. A Kiwanis chit) could hell) to understand why a baby behaves as Funding--IAm to moderate sponsor one of these programs in the it does, what they should do for him floursModerate community. or her, and how to cope when a baby PersonnelModerate continues to cry. Parents need to cope A club also could develop less formal parenting classes using local resour- with everything from teething to To eliminate child abuse, society ces, purchase a videotape education tantrums, from childproofing the must understand that child abuse oc- program, or support distribution of a house to a safety seat for the car. curs and that it is unacceptable. Cluhs parenting newsletter. They nmy need help to do all this, and can initiate an awareness campaign to For information on all of these forms Kiwanis can provide the information help people understand the different of parenting education, request ser- or tnake sure a helping hand is avail- kinds of abuse and establish a clear vice bulletin PO #I3 from the able. public attitude.Activities can range Kiwanis International Office. A club or division that decides to from a survey of family support develop an atnbitious parent support resources in the community to arrang- program will want to contact the Fami- ing for proclamations in support of ly Resource Coalition, (312) Child Abuse Prevention Month PROJECT: 726-4750. This organization provides (April). Start a Parent Helpline technical support for family assistance Clubs can also develop awareness organizations throughout the country activities that encourage parents to RESOURCES REQUIRED: and publishes highly informative enjoy positive experiences with their Funding-- -I,ow to moderate materials, including a resource guide children. Projects include distribution flours Moderate titledPmgrwns to Strengthen of a month-long list of parent-child ac- PersonnelHigh Families. tivities to club sponsorship of outings and a "Messy Fun Day.- Fifty years ago, a new parent lived A service bulletin on awareness ac- in a stable community where most tivities (P0 #10) i avaih,ble from the people knew one another. The parent FOCUS PROJECT: received advice frotn other members Sponsor a Parenting Program Development Department at the Kiwanis International Office. of' the community. whether it was Fair desired or not. 13y the satne token, it was easy to see how other parents RESOURCES REQUIRED: coped with their children. Today. Funding-- High many parents feel isolated. They have HoursHigh no one to talk to for advice or just to PersonnelHigh vent frustration. The purpose of a parenting fair is to show parents all the resources available in the community. The more services and organizations available to parents, the larger the fair will be. Give-aways, lectures on parenting, or on)

8 One way to help these parents is to FOCUS PROJECT: magazines, and videotapes on parent- provide a telephone resource. Hot- Shaken Baby ing belong in this library. For a short lines exist in most communities to list of recommended materials, con- deal with crime, drug abuse, emotion- Syndrome tact the Program Development Department at the Internatioral Office. al problems, or safety concerns. Thus, RESOURCES REQUIRED: it is generally easy to learn about the FundingLow logistics and costs of setting up a hot- HoursLow line. There is a potential to draw PersonnelLow FOCUS PROJECT: funds and experts (for training and Initiate a Home overseeing the telephone volunteers) Each year babies are permanently Visitation Program for this project from the large number disabled or killed by parents and care of organizations that deal with givers who don't understand the RESOURCES REQUIRED: families: hospitals, family physicians fragility of a young child's brain. I3y FundingHigh and pediatricians, child welfare and shaking a child, tossing him up in the HoursHigh abuse groups, the mental health asso- air, or bouncing him on a knee, an PersonnelLow to moderate ciation, and family-oriented busi- adult can cause permanent brain nesses. Kiwanians and other damage. Home visitation programs were dis- volunteers can man the phone after Clubs can prevent Shaken Baby cussed in the maternal and infant formal training. They should be Syndrome (SBS) through a public health section as an excellent method equipped with a list of organizations education campaign on the dangers of of educating and guiding young and professionals who are willing to shaking babies. Service bulletin women toward healthy pregnancies. accept referrals. PO #1 I contains a brochure ready to These programs work equally well he reproduced and scripts for radio guiding men and women through public service announcements. Infor- parenthood. To learn more about FOCUS PROJECT: mation on other SBS materials home visitation programs, request ser- Parents Anonymous available for purchase is also included vice bulletin PO #I7 from the in the bulletin. Kiwanis International Office. RESOURCES REQUIRED: FundingModerate to high HoursVariable PROJECT: PROJECT: PersonnelModerate Start a Family Develop a Family Parents Anonymous helps families Resource Library Resource Center by offering free, professionally RESOURCES REQUIRED: RESOURCES REQUIRED: facilitated, peer-led support groups for FundingModerate to high FundingHigh parents with abuse problems. The HoursLow HoursHigh philosophy of the organization iK that PersonnelLow PersonnelHigh parents have the ability to heal themselves by seeking solutions to their Some hospitals, churches, and One of the most ambitious projects problems within themselves. public libraries have set aside a book- a club or division could undertake is Kiwanis clubs can support Parents shelf or a room for a family resource to set up a family resource center. A Anonymous groups or help start new library, a collection of books and center could provide all the services groups. Service bulletin PO #I2 sug- pamphlets that offer guidance to that have been described here, and it gests support activities that range parents. If a club discovers that there would offer other forms of counseling from volunteer administrative support is no family resource library in the and support. To learn more about the to fund-raising. Request the bulletin community, it could work with any of from the Kiwanis International Office. the organizations mentioned above to develop a library. Books, newsletters, logistics and financial concerns of set- PROJECT: successful school experience. The ting up a center, purchase The Family Set Up a Family step-by-step instructions develop Resource Program Builder from the parents' confidence in their teaching Family Resource Center. Development abilities and encourage positive inter- or Family Literacy action with their children. The HIPPY Program program was developed in Israel and PROJECT: is used in Chile, Holland, Turkey, Ger- RESOURCES REQUIRED: many, and the United States. To learn Establish a Respite FundingModerate to high more about the HIPPY program, con- Care Program HoursHigh tact the National Council of Jewish or Center PersonnelLow to moderate Women Center for the Child, (212) 645-4048. RESOURCES REQUIRED: A child who is excited about school Laying the Foundations: A FundingHigh and wants to learn may be dis- Parent-Child Literacy KitThis HoursHigh couraged by his parents' attitude and literacy kit was developed by Push PersonnelHigh limited ability to help. This can con- Literacy Action Now (PLAN), a local tinue an unfortunate cycle that literacy development program in When a parent needs to get away sentences each generation to poor Washington, DC. PLAN discovered from a childfor his or her own education and poverty. that many parents wanted to help their sanity and the safety of the child, a To counter this problem, several or- children immediately. They couldn't respite care center or crisis care nurs- ganizations have developed programs afford to wait three years to develop ery could prevent a tragedy. The that teach parents how to support their their own skills. So, PLAN developed simplest form of respite care is a children's learning. Many concentrate a kit that parents could pick up and "Mother's Morning Out" or "Friday on developing literacy in parents as use immediately. The kit provides Night Out" program, at which parents the children prepare to learn to read. guidelines for a parent-child reading can leave a young child for a few Others take a broader view of the curriculum that teaches a non-reader hours, once a week, to have time for skills the parents need to develop. how to read children's books and how themselves. These function as a de- Described below are several of these to utilize community education resour- pendable child care service and can programs, which Kiwanis clubs could ces. Also in the kit are a simple story serve everyone who wishes to par- help bring to their communities. Infor- book with accompanying cassette ticipate in the program. An individual mation on other similar programs is tape, an easy-to-read pamphlet titled with a background in early childhood available from the International Office. Learning and Reading Tips for development could set up soch a pro- Two of these programs require sig- Parents, and a book that the parent gram. nificant expenditures, for an office or and child complete together. A kit The optimum program is open classroom, transportation, staff, and costs $24.95 and can serve as the around the clock, provides counseling materials. But they also have a signifi- basis for developing a local program, for the parent, and has enough space cant impact on the families involved. or quantities of the kit can be ordered that no one is ever turned away. It HIPPYThe Home Instruction at a reduced price. To learn more, con- will serve parents who fear they will Program for Preschool Youngsters tact Push Literacy Action Now, (202) not be able to control themselves if (HIPPY) is a two-year program for 547-8903. their children remain with them. Set- educationally disadvantaged children Kenan Trust Family Literacy ting up a respite care program requires four and five years old. Every other ProjectThree days a week, under- the expertise of a social worker, to week a paraprofessional visits the educated parents go with their three- make sure the program meets state re- home and works with the mother and and four-year-old children to a school quirements, and trained personnel. child. On alternate weeks, the where learning takes place for both For information on crisis care centers, mothers meet together with the parents and children. The children contact the National Exchange Foun- paraprofessionals and the program dation (419) 535-3232. coordinator as a support group. HIPPY focuses on the school-readiness skills children need for a happy,

10 attend a preschool class while the In the United States in 1988, 3,900 FOCUS PROJECT: parents sharpen basic skills, undergo children ages four and under died be- employment training, and learn about cause of accidental injuries. Distribute a Home parenting. This proffram does more Forty-five times tIrt number were Safety Checklist than teach the parents and children; it hospitalized. Some 1,300 times that RESOURCES REQUIRED: encourages them to learn together, number went to hospital emergency FundingLow to moderate which strengthens the family and rooms, and twice as many were HoursLow develops the family members' roles as treated at home. The leading causes PersonnelLow learners and teachers. of death for children one to four years The Kenan program is staffed by an old are motor vehicles, fires/burns, The possible hazards in a home are adult education teacher, a preschool drownings, chokings, poisonings, and so numerous that parents often are not teacher, and a preschool assistant, falls. aware of them until tragedy strikes. A who must be trained for two weeks. When a serious accident does occur. safety checklist can help parents iden- Setting up such a program requires special expertise and equipment may tify and correct potential dangers in considerable funding and should in- be needed to save the child's life. their homes. volve government support. A booklet That is why a pediatric trauma center Clubs can distribute this checklist to is available on possible funding sour- should be linked to every community. parents by reproducing the "Horne ces. To learn more about the Kenan Safety Checklist," which is available program, contact the National Center from the Program Development for Family Literacy, (502) 584-1133. PROJECT: Department at the International Of- Reading with ChildrenReading fice. The checklist can be distributed with Children is a program that helps Set Up a Safety Seat in a number of ways: through pre- adults improve their own reading Loan Program schools, hospitals, supermarkets, child skills by preparing them to read to RESOURCES REQUIRED: care centers, or anywhere parents of children. Developed by Literacy FundingModerate young children may be found. The Volunteers of America, the program HoursLow checklist targets potential dangers kit includes a trainer's guide, a hand- PersonnelLow throughout a home, from the garage book for literacy tutors, and a and basement to the child's bedroom videocassette showing how to use the In a car that collides with a and outdoor play areas. program. The kit could be used in a stationary object at thirty miles per literacy program, library, or Head hour, an unrestrained baby will suffer Start program. A club can order the injuries equivalent to falling from a kit for $95, from Literacy Volunteers FOCUS PROJECT: third story window. That is why every of America, (315) 445-80(X). Educate the child should ride in a car seat. Some parents cannot afford to pur- Community About chase a safety seat, and children Scald Burns visiting grandparents often don't bring RESOURCES REQUIRED: a car seat along. Even when a family FundingLow SAFETY AND purchases a safety seat, it sometimes HoursLow isn't used because it's inconvenient or PEDIATRIC PersonnelLow the baby is crying. TRAUMA Kiwanis clubs can make sure that Young children suffer scald burns One minute, she's playing happily: safety seats are available to everyone very quickly because their skin is so the next minute, there's a scream. The in the community by setting up a thinand it happens to young parents rush to their child, too late to safety seat loan program, described in children more than half a million prevent the accident but wishing they a service bulletin available from the times a year. A club can promote the could. There may be dozens of crises Program Development Department at installation of anti-scald safety valves like this in a parent's life, but it only Kiwanis International. The bulletin in- (that prevent tap water from reaching takes one to permanently injure or kill cludes material for promoting the use scalding temperatures) and work a child. That is why parents and of car seats. toward changes in plumbing codes to children need safety education.

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11 reduce maximum hot water tempera- Many Red Cross chapters and PROJECT: tures in new construction to 120 YMCA facilities have switmrng les- Educate the degrees Fahrenheit. A service bulletin sons for young children and their Community about on scald burns is available from the parents. The purpose of these Program Development Department at programs is to develop in the children Poisons the techniques and confidence neces- the Kiwanis International Office. RESOURCES REQUIRED: sary to stay afloat. A club could work FundingLow to moderate with the local Red Cross or YMCA to HoursModerate FOCUS PROJECT: offer this program. perhaps subsidize PersonnelLow it, and promote the program to ensure Conduct Smoke full classes. Detector Safety Checks The same impulse that leads a child to swallow a toy may .mpel him to RESOURCES REQUIRED: drink or eat a poisonous substance. FundingLow to moderate PROJECT: Clubs can help parents through an HoursModerate Distribute Choke-Test awareness campaign that reminds PersonnelModerate to high Tubes them to keep paints, cleaning com- pounds, beauty aids, and even house One-third of the smoke detectors in- RESOURCES REQUIRED: plants out of the reach of their stalled in houses don't work. If a tire FundingLow to moderate children. "Mr. Yuck" stickers can be occurs, they won't make a sound, be- HoursLow distributed, so that parents can label cause most smoke alarms still contain PersonnelLow poisonous substances with a consis- their original batteries, from three, tent warning that they discuss with five, or even ten years ago. A simple An adult learns about an object by their children. Finally, a club could project can solve this problem: go looking at it. A young child learns print and distribute copies of a chart door-to-door and offer to check the about it by putting it in his mouth. that tells parents what to do if their batteries in smoke detectors and in- Telling a toddler to stop putting ob- children consume a poisonous sub- stall new batteries where needed. jects in his mouth has little or no stance. Families also need education about effect. The proper safety precaution is Educational pamphlets on poisons, their smoke detectors. to make sure the child doesn't play designed for distribution in the com- A service bulletin on the smoke with toys on which he could choke, munity, are available from the detector check and replacement and there is a devicecalled a National Safety Council, (800) 621- project can be obtained from the Pro- choketest tubethat helps parents 7619 or (312) 527-4800, and the gram Development Department at the determine this. The choketest tube American Academy of Pediatrics, International Office. was originally used by the federal (8(X)) 433-9016 or (MX)) 421-0589 (Il- government and toy manufacturers: if linois residents only). a toyor the smallest piece of a toy PROJECT: fit inside the tube, it was labelled unsafe for children ages three and PROJECT: Initiate a Drown- under. Proofing Class for Today, the choketest tube is Install Gates and Bars Young Children available to parents and teachers from to Prevent Falls a mail ordcr company called RESOURCES REQUIRED: RESOURCES REQUIRED: Lakeshore C'urriculum, at a cost of SI FundingLow FundingLow each. A club could purchase a quan- HoursModerate HoursHigh tity and distribute them as a service to PersonnelModerate PersonnelHigh parents. This could be a project by itself, or it could be part of a parenting Young children are fascinated by Safety devices that prevent falls are fair or seminar. To order tubes, call quite simple and obvious. A gate at a water. No matter what the weather. (8(X)) 542-833:-. how they are dressed, or how deep it stairway will keep a child from trying is, they want to get into it.However, to climb up or down. A bar across a many young children don't know large bay window will keep a child what to do in water over their heads. from leaning against a screen--and falling through it. Some families need

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12 assistance in purchasing or installing severely injured child requires special transportation to a tertiary care hospi- these devices. A club could advertise techniques and equipment. Doctors tal--all of these can have a significant its willingness to help families solve must understand the different types of impact on a child's recovery. For this such safety problems and send out a injuries that can occur to a young reason, clubs have sponsored training fix-it team to respond to each call. body, a child's unique response to programs for emergency medical tech- blood loss, and the appropriate drug nicians and nurses or arranged for dosages. Often the child can't explain doctors to attend meetings sponsored PROJECT: what is wrong, and his or her emotion- by the pediatric trauma center. al reaction can be severe. Even the Equipment PurchasesAmbul- Set up a Program to equipment must be a special size to tit ance equipment that fits an adult may Train Baby-Sitters the child. A hospital that treats only a he useless for a child. Many clubs few seriously injured children each help purchase pediatric equipment for RESOURCES REQUIRED: ambulances or local hospitals. FundingModerate year may not be prepared to meet Landing PadsTo ensure that a HoursModerate these special needs, and that can mean severely traumatized child can quickly PersonnelLow the difference between life and death. That is why Kiwanis clubs in six he transported from the local hospital districts have worked with leading to the tertiary care ccnter (the A baby-sitter needs to do more than children's hospitals to set up pediatric pediatric trauma center), clubs have simply watch a child under her care. trauma centers. These centers then built helicopter landing pads near She needs to know how to prevent in- offer support to other hospitals and their hospitals. juries and respond decisively to develop a coordinated system to en- accidents. The "Safe Sitter" training sure that severely injured children program teaches young people eleven throughout the state or states receive to thirteen years 01(1 how to care for FOCUS PROJECT: the care they need. The most ad- children. The course instructs how to Support the Children's vanced program is in New England, deal with medical emergencies, the where the Kiwanis district helped Miracle Network responsibilities of safe baby-sitting, found the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Telethon age-appropriate entertainment, and the Institute, the first pediatric trauma cen- basics of starting a business. Finally, RESOURCES REQUIRED: ter in the world. This program has it concludes with a rigorous exam. FundingVariable developed several ways for Kiwanis A club interested in establishing a HoursVariable clubs to provide support, including "Safe Sitter" program should work PersonnelVariable fund-raising, training for medical per- with a hospital, school, library, or sonnel, equipment purchases, and youth agency. The program must he The Children's Miracle Network building of landing pads. For more in- run by a certified instructor and re- was created by the Osmond Founda- formation, request service bulletin quires a CPR mannequin, dolls, tion to alleviate children's hospitals' PO #8 from the Program Develop- diapers, haby bottles, and other equip- immense financial burdens. The ment Department at the International ment. Initial certification costs $350, Children's Miracle Network sponsors Office. and training is $50 per person. plus a telethon each year during the first Fund RaisingEstablishing a sig- travel. Three or four people should be weekend in June for children's hospi- nificant program in a major chikiren's trained. To learn more about the tals and other hospitals with a strong hospital requires that the Kiwanis dis- "Sate Sitter" program. call (800) 255- emphasis on pediatrics that are mem- trict raise at least one-quarter of the 4089 or (317) 353-4888. bers of the Children's Miracle funds needed. Depending on the dis- Network. trict and the size of the program, the The Children's Miracle Network annual commitment could be $50,000 Telethon is unique. It is broadcast na- FOCUS PROJECT: to $250,0(() a year, requiring every tionally from Disneyland in Anaheim, club in the district to make significant Support a Pediatric California, and on more than 160 dif- contributions. Trauma Program ferent local telethons throughout the Training ProgramsThe way RESOURC'ES REQUIRED: children are treated from the moment FundingVariable help arrives, the accuracy and speed HoursVariable of the information radioed hack to the PersonnelVariable hospital, the time spent arranging for

Doctors have discovered that children's responses to injuries are different from adults. To properly treat a 4 5

13 US and Canada. All funds raised lo- A service bulletin on the Children's contact the Program Development cally go directly to the children's Miracle Network Telethon, which ex- Department at the International Office hospital in the community where the plains the telethon in greater detail, is and ask for whatever information is money was raised. None goes to a na- available from the Program Develop- on file. In addition, the club can help tional office. ment Department at the International many other clubs by sharing what it Kiwanis International has been a Office. learns and the project it develops with national sponsor since the telethon the District Chairman forYoung was founded in 1982. Kiwanis clubs Children: Priority Oneor the Interna- have raised several million dollars for tional Office. children's hospitals since then. A club might consider starting any OTHER AREAS numberof Young Children: Priority Oneprograms at an area children's OF NEED hospital, and donate the funds raised Many areas of need are not directly for it through the Children's Miracle addressed in this idea list. The num- Network Telethon. (Be sure that the ber of homeless families is increasing hospital is a member of the Children's at a shocking rate. Handicapped Miracle Network.) By doing so, the children need special services. club would be supporting two official Children in the court systems need bet- programs of Kiwanis International. ter representation. There are many Club members should discuss with other problems that the public should the hospital's telethon coordinator the understand better. No matter what possibility of setting up a special need a club decides to address, it can Kiwanis Young Children: Priority Onefund, so that the club can have a better idea of how its funds are impact- ing the well-being of young children.

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14 Project Idea Summary

Resources Required Maternal and Child Care and Parent Safety and Pediatric Infant Health Development Education and Trauma Support Home visitation Resource & referral Parenting Fair Pediatric trauma High New health care agency Parent helpline training & equipment services Expand child care Home visitation helicopter pads "Baby Your Baby- services Family resource Lenter family network HIPPY Respite care Kenan Family Literacy Parenting educat, Project

Immunizations Support of child care Parents Anonymous "Safe Sitter" training Moderate Smoking awareness provider, preschool, Parent support Safety seat loan Public education or Head Start Family resource library program Health screening Awareness campaign Awareness & Drown proofing Prenatal health Reading Is Funda- Prevention of Scald Burn Campaign education in the mental Child Abuse Children's Miracle workplace NAEYC accreditation Network Telethon Lead Poisoning Literature distribution Purchase items for Literature distribution Smoke detector Low Child health day preschool or care Shaken Baby checks proclamation provider Syndrome Choke test tubes Alcohol awareness Library storyline Poison prevention Promote reading Fall prevention Horne Safety Checklist

Service bulletins are available for the highlighted projects.

(h) Program Development Department Kiwanis International 3636 Wmxlview Trace Indianapolis, IN 46265-3196 U.S.A

(317) 875-8755 Worldwide (317) 879-0204 Fax (800) 579-4769 North America

16 4 7 YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE ORDER FORM Use this form to order any materials you need for developing a club project that addresses needs of young children.

SERVICE BULLETINS

Detailed instructions for implementing service projects. Limit 5 each.

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Reading Is Fundamental (PO #1) Prevention of Child Abuse (PO #10)

Head Start (PO #2) Shaken Baby Syndrome (P0 #11)

Scald Bums (PO #3) Parents Anonymous (PO #12)

Smoking Awareness Campaign (PO #4) Parenting Education (PO #13)

Parenting Fair (PO #5) Immunizations (PO #14)

Children's Miracle Network Telethon (P0 #6) Alcohol Awareness (PO #15)

Smoke Detector Safety (PO #7) Preventing Lead Poisoning (PO #16)

Pcdiatric Trauma (PO #8) Home Visitation Programs (PO #17)

Homc Safety Checklist (PO #9) Safety Seat Loan Program (YS #29)

OTHER ITEMS

Quantity Item

Fact Brochures (in sets of 50limit 2 sets)

Tip Sheets on Fundraising, Evaluation, and Coalitions

Needs Assessment Survey Cards

List of District Chairmen forYoung Children: Priority One

List ofPriority OneAdvisory Council Members

Project Idea List

SHIP TO: RETURN THIS FORM TO: Name Program Development Department Kiwanis International Office Address 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196

Kiwanis Club of

Phone 4s 15 YcP0 1 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE ectdingIs Fundarnerd*QI

shares ideas among several thousand The Problem The RIF Program RIF projects. The RIF Ilamlbook: How to Run Children who grow up in homes Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. a Successful Reading Is Fundamental where parents do not read, or have (RIF) is a U.S. nonprofit, nationwide Project, which offers step-by-step only marginal reading skills, often organization that brings children and technical help on how to select and lack early exposure to reading. They books together in order to help young order books, raise funds, and motivate do not have stories read to them by a people acquire the habit of reading at reading.It comes in a loose-leaf parent. They do not see hooks or an early age. format that is easy to revise and print materials in their homes. They From headquarters in Washington. update. The handbook is provided to often do not have parental help with D.C., Reading Is Fundamental -a RIF project once its proposal has school work. supports RIF projects at more than been approved. Because of this widespread lack of 11,000 locations throughout the A membL of the RIF Program reading skills, nearly one-third of all United States. Puerto Rico, Guam, Services staff, assigned to review young families are poor, and millions and the Virgin Islands. Projects are your club's proposal. answer your are unemployed. More than one sponsored by local nonprofit groups, questions, and give advice on making million teenagers become pregnant such as PTA and Kiwanis clubs, or your project effective. each year. Scores of adolescent public agencies, such as schools and parents do not have a high school libraries. education or the basic skills needed to RIF negotiates substantial dis- find a job. One-fourth of all families counts on a nationwide scale with are headed by single parents, many of more than 350 book publishers and The Role of Kiwanis whom are women with an eighth distributors. Sponsoring groups select Kiwanis clubs can change the grade education or less. and purchase the books and admin- future by giving young children the Some 15 million children live in ister the program in their comimmi- gift of reading. these households, and the cycle of ties. A local program makes reading To support the Major Emphasis illitemcy often is perpetuated. A exciting and allows children to Program's focus on children prenatal child in this environment enters choose books to take home, to read through age five, clubs should imple- school with little understanding of the and to keep, without cost to the ment RIF projects in centers and importance of reading. In short, these children or their families. As a result. schools that serve young children. children have little motivation to RIF does more than help local Clubs can decide how many children learn to read, and the result, as sponsors distribute books to children to help, what books to order, what statistics on adult illiteracy indicate, it develops a better educated, activities to provide, and how to raise is that many never learn. better informed public. Children who funds. Educational research repeatedly read grow up to become adults who has recognized the importance of can read. introducing early learning and RIF Resources RIF will help literacy, the value of reading for Kiwanis clubs develop and operate pleasure, and the need for adult role projects and offers these resources: models. Access to hooks remains a A film on loan to introduce RIF key factor in children's reading to the community and to help the club achievement. raise funds. The RIF Newsletter, sent three times a year, and "Ideas and Remind- ers,- a newsletter insert, which 1 49 Organizing a RIF If you are operating a: You will need to give at least: Project school year program 3 books through 3 distributions RIF requires potential sponsors to summer program 2 books through 2 distributions submit a program proposal for year-round program 5 books through 3 distributions authorization to begin or renew a project.Kiwanis clubs that plan to Order extra books to allow children a choice. undertake RIF projects will need to go through these steps: X 10%)= Contact local agencies to select a children books/child books site A Kiwanis-sponsoredRIF project should serve children ages Books for young children are about $1.50 after discount three through five. A club might approach a preschool, child caie X $1.50 $ center, Head Start agency, or any books needed cost for books facility that works with youngsters who are not ordinarily exposed to books at home. A club also could seek advice on Determine the expense In Submit a program proposal an appropriate site from the state order to develop a budget, estimate Reading Is Fundamental requires Association for the Education of the number of books you will need. potential sponsors to complete a Young Children and the regional Other expenses may include program proposal for authorization to Head Start office. Any program that postage, photocopying. decorations, begin or renew a RIF program. The serves low income families is a likely refreshments, and materials for questionnaire seeks to ensure each place to find children who would motivational activities. Not all these project's success by asking the benefit from a reading project. are necessary, and your club may find sponsoring group to determine each Gain approval from the targeted there are businesses that wish to help. of the areas discussed above the institution Explain T'IF to the To make certain thatRIFprojects type of program it wishes to under- manager or administr r and obtain will he adequately funded, the take, the number of children in the support to begin the program, pending proposal asks applicants to declare program, the anticipated expense, RIF's approval of the club's program the amount of money on hand and the approval from the targeted facility. proposal. Explain there is no cost to amount that will be raised. The how it will publicize the project, and the facility or the children's families. smallest budget RIF will approve is community involvement. Decide how many children will $200. After a RIF budget has been Kiwanis clubs that decide to partiepate Decide which children developed, present it to the club's establish aRIFproject should request the dab wants to reach and how hoard of directors for approval. The a program proposal and instructions many. The club may have RIF club can supplement its own fund- from the Reading Is Fundamental projects at more than one location. raising ideas with others offered in Office in Washington, D.C. A club To determine how many children the RIF Handbook. may call or write, using the form on the club can serve, consider these Plan publicity Decide how the the back of this bulletin. factors: club will relay information about the Make committee assignments The number of children available in RIF program to the children's To give committees an overview of a selected group. families. The publicity chairman the program, the club might show the The amount of money the club can may wish to send letters home with RIF introductory film and circulate spend or raise. the children, send news releases to back issues of the RIF Newsletter and The amount of work the club is local newspapers, or display posters. "Ideas and Reminders." Each reading willing to do. Involve parents and the commu- project is organized a little differ- RIF's requirement that all children nity Decide how the club can ently, but the following are areas for in a designated group be served, re- involve parents in the program. Your which a committee should be formed. gardless of income, delayed lan- club might invite them to help with Bookselection RIF requires a guage skills, or other factors. the planning, fund raising, book committee of at least three persons to Choose a program The club selection, motivational activities, or select books for distribution and must decide whether to conduct a RIF refreshments. RIF recommends that recommends that it include teachers, project for the summer, the school the sponsoring group invite parents, librarians, and parents. Those who year, or as a year-round program. librarians, and teachers to be involved select and order books should try to Book distribution, depending upon in hook selection, as well as staff match books to children and be which program the club selects, will members from the facility the club sensitive to community standards. vary from at least two to five books chooses to serve. Some 4,000 new juvenile titles are for each child. published each year, so selection is a task that takes time and consideration.

2 RIF arranges for more than 350 Other possible activities are puppet Publicity The chairman can publishers and distributors to supply shows, reading marathons, poster or promote the club's reading program books to local projects at sizeable billboard contests, parades of cos- by sending news releases to the local discounts, and the hook selection tumed storybook characters, illustrat- newspaper, inviting the paper's committee may order only from those ing books on posters or bookmarks, photographer to snap a picture at a suppliers. RIF also provides a book inviting children to pack lunch for a book distribution, or sending a letter supplier profile that lists discounts RIFnic, and videotaping hook home with each child. and a description of the types of distributions to he shown over local books in which each supplier special- television stations. RIF's "Ideas and izes, such as particular reau.ng levels, Reminders" offers hundreds of ideas. specific ethnic and religious heri- Bookdistribution Working tages, sports, or classics. closely with other RIF committees, Promoting RIF Motivational activities Mem- the book distribution committee could Services for Parents hold the event in the facility's activity bers in charge of motivational For parents who rnd and want to activities, which take place at book room, at the zoo, a park, or a play- increase their children's interest in ground. Not all distributions need to distributions, will want to emphasize reading, a Kiwanis club car, purchase fun in order to achieve the serious be elaborate. but members generally and distribute RIF mater;al: will want to decorate the site and purpose of encouraging children to Parent Guide broclr,res,¶ 15/100 serve refreshments. The chairman read for pleasure and information. of each publication, 50 cents/single might invite parents. Key Club or They should plan imaginative copy The list includes: Builders Club members, or the activities to spark interest in reading, Encouraging Soon-To-Be Readers elderly to help with a distribution. such as bringing in a local storyteller Reading: What's in it for or inviting special visitors an Book distributions are particularly Teenagers? rewarding because members see athlete, a fire fighter, the mayor to Children Who Can Read, But talk about their work and why reading firsthand the positive effects of Don't children choosing a hook to take is important to them. The special Upbeat and Offbeat Activities to home and keep. guests might read their favorite Encourage Reading stories to the children. TV and Reading 11111111111.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KIWANIS CLUB OF SANDUSKY Dear Paents. Boys and gins at the Crooked Creek nursery school are participants CONTACT NAME. Bill Bright in a reading program that stimulates children's interest in reading and makes it possible for kids to choose books they can keep as their very TELEPHONE. 752-6945 own at no charge The Kiwanis Club of Logwood. sponsor of the Reading Is Funda mental program (RIF). invites you to its first book distribution party al the SANDUSKY KIWANIS CLUB SAYS READING IS FUNdamental nursery school on Thursday. December 11. al 9 a m Come and listen to local storyteller Miz Caroline delight the young audience with a On Friday. November 2. children at the Westwood Child Care Surprising tate Center will meet Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. the handsome And please make reading a priority at home, Help your children develop reading skills while they are young. so they will have a lifetime prince, and a host of other classic characters at a storybook parade of reading ahead that will introduce the Sandusky Kiwanis club's Reading Is Funda- Two other book distribution parties scheduled during the school mental (RIF) project. year afro mill feature activities designed to increase your children s RIF. a nonprofit, nationwide program that encourages reading, interest in reading will be in high gear throughout the year for boys and girls at the RIF says- center The club plans to hold three book distribution parties, which Read to your children and encourage them to read to each otherSet will feature a variety of storytellers arid activities to encourage the aside a time each day when everyone reads youngsters to read for funAt each party, the children may select a Fill the house with books from the library, and with magazines and newspapersLet your children see you reading book to keep at no expense Introduce the children to the library, and make frequent visits 'RIF has made thousands of young children avid readers." Set aside a bookshelf lor each child explained Sam Hall. president of the Sandusky Kiwanis club "Our Provide a quiet corner where family members can curl up and read club wants to help make that happen here in Sandusky.' He added Take books along wherever you go to the store, on a bus, to that scores of communities have seen a dramatic change in Grandmother's house students' attitudes toward reading As children read more, they Hay games with words Name words beginning with the same sound. become active participants in the educational process They also words that end with the same sound. and words that rhyme become a better educated. better informed public Since 1966. RIF has made a possible tor youngsters to choose, to The club encourages parents to make reading a family affair own. and to read more than 75 million free books and invites parents to the parade at 10:00 a m on Friday

Prepare press releases, similar to this one, Have children deliver letters to their families. for local newspaper publicity. Be sure to Urge parents to encourage reading at home. type them, double-spaced.

3 51 Reading Aloud to Your Children attend one in another community. Arranging for storytellers and Choosing Good Books for Your Workshops give parents an opportu- readers with whom the children can Children nity to hear nationally known identify. Reading Is Fun! Tips for Parents speakers. Authorities on children's Encouraging parent/child communi- Building a Family Library reading, award-winning children's cation. Summertime Reading authors, and local experts share Involving parents in their children's Family Story Telling practical tips at workshops across the activities. Encouraging Young Writers country. The RIF office in Washing- Helping parents learn how to The RIF Guide 10 Encouraging ton, D.C., sells a Leader's Guide on encourage reading. Young Readers, $9.95 Published how to organize such an event. Urging parents to encourage student by Doubleday, the guide contains Reading Is Fun Week A achievement, attendance, motiva- hundreds of at-home activities Kiwanis club can promote the tion, and behavior. suggested by RIF volunteers, an observance each year in late April. Steering parents into adult literacy annotated booklist, and other re- The RIF Handbook suggests procla- programs. sources to help parents stimulate their mations from the mayor, bestowing a A Kiwanis club interested in children's reading. Parents are Certificate of Merit on deserving developing a family reading program encouraged to create a home environ- individuals or groups, and other should contact one of the family ment in which books are friends and successful ideas a club can adapt for literacy programs listed in the Project reading is a welcome pastime. The its community. Idea List. guide includes hundreds of ways parents can create such an environ-

ment in everyday family life. A club WWWWIWWWIWI may purchase the guide from RIF or at a local bookstore. Developing Family Clubs Outside the Helping Your Children Become Literacy United States Reuders,$5 Ten ways parents can Illiteracy is a family affair, and a Clubs outside the U.S. may encourage children to read, available full attack on the problem includes purchase resource materials from the in English and Spanish, is camera- breaking the chain that perpetuates it Reading Is Fundamental Office in ready and may he reproduced in from generation to generation. Washington, D.C. Non-U.S. clubs unlimited quantities in newsletters, A Kiwanis club that serves a are not able at this time, however, to letters, or fliers, and has space for a community in which fami:y literacy purchase books for distribution club to insert its name. is an issue can enhance the RIF through RIF. program in these ways: Publications are available in Providing one-on-one reading help English only, except "Helping Your WP to children whose parents cannot Children Become Readers," which Promoting Other read. also is available in Spanish. Interested clubs might ask the RIF Services District Major Emphasis Program Growing Up Reading work- Chairman if a combined request from shops AKiwanis club can sponsor district clubs would lower the cost of a workshop or pay for local parents to materials or postage.

For More Information About Reading Is Fundamental Call the RIF office in Washington. D.C., or send a photocopy of this form to: Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF) 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Suite 500 Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20024 202/287-3220 ORDER FORM

The K many, Club of wants to team more about the Reading Is I.undamental program. We would like to receive: Kiwanis International Office An Information Packet. The introductory film on loan. which +,se will return. 3636 Woodview Trace A program proposal & instructions. The RIF Newsletter and "Ideas and Reminders.- Indianapolis, Indiana 46268-3196 U.S.A. Please send the material to:

Name: (317) 875-8755 (Worldwide) (317) 8794)204 (Fax) Address: (800) 879-4769 (North America)

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epholalion put Iliii.t.t. In\ II Transportation \ ,111t1 iilttti nillittu on \laiirI lead Start programs ha% e se\ eral kinds (11 emplo \ mem \ ans or buses. hut those \\ ho thou.! Helping Teachers It paienis .11,. to attend I lead Stan \\ olkshops. the\ sollielmws need \\ tiii l\\ elt.'0111i help nansporting and Staff tianspoilation. all ;1\1\1111(111,11 sell ILL' children. ( 'hildren oink lilleas The membership of e\ err Km anis often can't attend hec:uise their parents t.11,11), uuiu.du pio \ lie.\\ uti k \\ !di , tub is 1 \ altiable sonice ol kii(n\ ledge sponsored oiall clubs to pi 0\ life can't tirrange (II al ford transportation. and e penence. and I lead Start Other children need transportation h,11,\ 511i1 ip,2,it111;11is JIM) Idthtlired. 1011111 he glad lot \ from the I lead Start center to the share \ 0111e pernse \\ Itil 'tan. dock)] or dentist for indis !dual parents..ind the cluldien. medical care.N. lembers could loon a \lembeis call pio\ ide enrichment 1111111111111111, 11111111MillS111111111 drk mg pool so that someone Is deo \ mes in \\ heie teacheis and Working with the .1\ tillable ehiJi (la\ to take children stall doin Holman\ le, c, \\ here the\ need to he. \leinheis also Children C \ ,1 protessional could -share a ride- \\jilt clnldreniii nught teach I irst11th 1(11\ oung \lembeis can also shale then outling :treas. pro\ iding transporta children. ps.\(..hologist (11 soehil e\ pet Idice \\ thii he cluldwil. One \\ a\ non on the \\ ;i to and 110111 the (ti ker nught teach ho \\ it lec Is to come into the c lassloom and tell member's eniplu tr uncut. them ahout particular careers or child:louse.I someone \\ hoikork. \\ 1111 Another \\ clubs could help \\ ith tiMedia cOlikIi.',1\.11 ell (NO \ u. uhlic hobbies.I ell them \\ hat It's like to he transportation f it 111 the regular relitions. a dentist. Illt.lilull. oi sec ietar. or a maintenance costs oil changes. tune S11102 111,111\ 11\\ ,1111,111,,ne profes- stamp collector. !middle!. ol seri ice ups. ne \\ tires) chicles the centers sionals \\ ith e \eollent husiness skills fuh i ((fumed. Sharing hobbies i. alread o\\ n.I lelp \\ ith these costs and nes kl 11111n OW01111111111111 dn"lici 1111 (the spon \\ ill let the 1 lead Start program use menthers might he asked io set I e un soled \ club members. Renlem- unds the\ \\ ould hike spent on the pr(Tram's hoard (it directors. her to keep our plesentation sImple maintenance on more direct 'yogi am, polic council. or ad\ isor committee. and Intel. and hr to make It interesting for the children. Some professional Illemhers can also itti\ \ 01111...2Children. \lore ambitlous clubs ina lonsidci help h pro\ 1dIng sen kV, 10 the !lead SI,111 ploymills conduct purchasing a \ an or bus or persuadmg center or to the childien at no cost or regular I ield trips that make the a local dealer to donate one. reduced rates. children III are of then communit and 'I here ;Ire man\ I% ;In', 10 11,Nil 111111 introduce them to (In ferent hr pes ol don't reqUirt: 1111\pli11111111!/.. The \ 0111 \ aok ities the might pursue later III reqUIre 0111einle Itt \ hie. Ki \\ tuna!). can help in se\ eral Health Care ho is 1\ to gke \\ hate\ er Ilelp Is II an s. \ lemhers can \ olunteer Is asked Or Iheull. Thee \ 0111111l'er chapc tones to help super\ Ise the Ninet -eight percent of the children might be asked to 1155151 illii II!de ellildren. and oller toms of then. ser\ ed hr !lead Start receke free range of act i \ itics. such ls readiny Ill businesses or places of emplor ment. (Al\ Or Oh` CONN lor a health care through \ ledicaid. hut that the children. ',.11 \ illi1 11(1\11110n mean. a fe \\ don't. Head Start \\ 1111 special needs, preparing bulletin special held trip outside the immediate arrange. Itt ith local pmfessionals for hoard materials. checking children's :Weil. ilICIndell:! IRII110,4011 the children to reed \ e medical and height and \\.eiyht. or record-keeping. 1111d ;.1,101111c Or a chartered bus. dental naminations eachear. and {ohm\ -up care it necessar.\. In somc art-ts. ho\ e ker. no local doctors or

54 \lenthers ako could form a -Ki\.iniN IZIlq211 stnnes and programs. For I lead Stan Program has e collaborated (.arto. an.- of tering their tMll chides the teachers and stall. funds can he for Nes eralears to sots e (tne of these and drn ing SeR ices for the trip. spent on s aluahle resource materials or pulhlents. he share a los el \ hgamie spes.ial act k ines for the seminars. [ach center has tsent -lise-acre camp lacilit. Much childien that supplement the daiI \ infounation on recommended materi- is (muted h the cluh. l)uring the routine and comhine learning ith als and pnihabl has a "55 isn list- or summer. the cluh operates ti camp fiw Condlld ;I puppet shu w.. put on a short panicular items that ssould he rnost disads antaged children. But during skit. Or plan a picmc. uselul. the schoolear. the Lamp is a I lead *I he K 'man!. Cluh of \ lorehead. kesouree inaterials can he saluahle Start center kir I 50 children. This kentuck .ith die help of graduate for parents. tooI lead Start parents relationship assures the kiss anis cluh students I runt Me local unkersik 's ma nes er ha\ e had the courage or that the camp does not sit entpk most recredlion dcpdrImenl. olgalli/cd and siesta. to frequent Me sthoo! lihrar) Or of ear. .:ind pros ides I lead Stan conducted a special es ent duhhed the puhhc lihrtir. Your cluh could s% ilk a complete. read -to-use facilit I lead Start ( 'lames. Decked out In estahlish. at the I lead Stan center. a for its programs. their er iic. n bright red -I lead Start lending lihrar of materials that \ lan Kiss anis cluhs n buildings. ( t-shirts.oungslers partici- parsmis can horross and return on a lfour club ucsS ns one that is not pated in a Big. \\fieel race. reIa races. sign-out hasis.I opics should include occupied for large portions of the da a Vs tiler halloun l(ros. and an obstacle hasic. reles ant topics like parentnlg sir \ ear. consider making tirrangements cum se.\ t die end of the (1.,t, skills. huilding health ith !lead Start to e \ pand Nen ices so one got a hlue nhhon for part substance ahuse presention ,ffld that a greater numher of children can so that ;illchildren 55 ere -55 inners.- inter% ention. job skills. and famil) ;mend. The da \ concluded ss ith a pienic tor nutrition. YOU could also make .\notherto. to secure inure room the children. parents. and s olunteers. information Imm local social sers ices is to remodel tin e \ isting facilin or itilahle iii \ 011r hihrn build a neS% one. \Vhether \ ou decide BC sUre 10 include ea.\ -to-read to refurhish or e \pand. it ss ill take a materials, as some parents ma itot good deal of capital. Conduct a fund- hike good reading skills. You might raising Cs inn or estahlish tut ongoing Improving Facilities surreptitiousl include some items campaign that ins ohs es not onl \ local Ser\ ice can also he donated for the intended for children. Parents v,ho residents. hut the husiness communit general maintenance of or impro\ e- read poorl could e \amine and ass'sehh inem to lacilities. This might include understand these materials in the simple tasks. such ;is hanging posters. prn ad.\ of their o\\ n homes. painting a room. or Most ing the lass n. .1 he center illa need equipment for \ lore comple \ projects might require the of lice. classroom. and pla ground CDA Scholarships more planning. special skills. and te;mi items like a t nes% riter. copier. \sork: electrical or plumhing repairs. child-si/e tahles and chairs. or special [:\ enis e children enrolled in minor construction. installing or equipment kw handicapped children. (lead Start, at least lour parents are sers icing office equipment. huilding or Solicit husinesses to donate the pro iding a solunteer set's ice. These sprucing up pla ground equipment. or necessar equipment shenescr parents tire giN, en preference for non- addliP,2 lencnig or landscaping. possihle. or consider purchasing it tis a prolessional staff johs ;Ind training for inner-cit programs. pro\ ide cluh project. You could also consider a special credential called the Child complete landscaping materials and so\ enng costs for routine maintenance Des elopment .Associate (CD:\ sers ices to turn a concrete plaground that mak he requwed or recommeikled Program. \ationalk . one-third of into a place of heaut. and rela \ation. tor some equipment. I lead Start's paid staff people ;ire Some sand ;Ind dirt. a little grass st.ed. current or former I lead Start parents. a fess flosers. and a hird house can and the majorit of these men and turn a dull. rock-hard pla ground Imo s omen ;Me receis ing CDA training. a nature stud.. The Child 1)es elopment , \ssociate Expanding Facilities ititniuiCredentialing Program gi Currently. man eligible children I lead Start staff the opportunit to ;ire not heing sened in Ilead Start. receis e credit kw their ork ith the This is inainl due to insufficient children to v ard the (*DA credential. Purchasing funding and insufficient space. Your Once parents has e completed the ('I).\ Materials club cim has e a major Unpact on these training. the must go through an prohlems and alloy,our local assessment process \kith the Council Another 55 ti. our t htih can support Proram to serse more children. for Lark Childluiod Professional !lead Start is to purchase special In K nos ille. Tennessee. the Recognition. hut mam lov. -income educational materials that s ill impro\ e Doss ntovsli kiss ank ('Iuh and the the staff's professional skilk or gise the children no% opportunities f or de% elopment. Special educational materials fiir the children nnght include des elop. mental to\ s tmd hooks or learn-sshile-

5 5 IinhIte\ L:annot pa tor this assess- IN: a tutor. but mank. other Opportuni ment. Cluhs could help patents nes e1st. Consult \\Iii\ our I lead Public Relations iomplete the (1)..\ program h Start program :uidour local literak.. \ lost I lead Start stat I \k arding CDA scholarships lor I till oi piogram to see \\ hat \Lould most lia c their hands lull attending to the needs of the partial eosts. het Pt ul \\ hen \korkin12 \\ ith [lead Start children and their Iamilies.I he\ ha\ c CD.\ s \\ ork in Head Start centers. parents. little time 10 \korr about public LililLi care centers. Lind preshool I lead SLII I recentl hegan encour IL:1.1110ns. uior io lhc\ Usual! \ programs. so the po Tram henet its not aging participation iii local Lund> Ila \ e the Rquired skills or eAperience. Your onl indo idual parents. hut the entire hterac Famil \ literac has Call help both Ilead %it and child care s stein. three goals: to imprmc parents' !kelt h keeping the media and reading skills: to encourage all earl theretole. the communit avk are of interest in leading innong oung \\ hat is happening in the program. and childien. and to strengthen the liund \ lim\ it beneI Ilk' children and the unit through reading together. Sonic CO111111111111\ Be siliv lit puhlie1,e club "Adopt" a Child programs take plak:e ni the I lead Start projects..tooltcultures. ne \\ pur- center: others. in the home. Opporm- or Family chases. \ oluntcer ser\ ices. fund- nines for \ olunteer ser \ ice uiiLl raj.* dri \ es and special e\ ents. Other \\ s to help children molletar support e \ist in lamil Don't lorget to ask tele\ ision. radio. enrolled in I lead Start is to "adopt" it literac as \\ ell. child or e "adopt- a famil \ .I Ins and 110\ spapers kir cm eralie. The means pro\ iding \\ hate\ er assistance combination ()I t\ko important names the lantilr needs.It ma include a like Ki \\ anis and I lead Start \\ ill make the inlormation more ne \\ orth. good coat or shoes for the child or alI children in the familk.. seasonal 100(1 "Adopt" a Center baskets. home repairs. \\ eather- The ultimate project \ our clul) proofing. or assisting the parents \Aiii might consider is to -adopt- a Ilead lob train* and placement..1 he I lead Start eenter. pio\ !ding a range 01 A Community Start program director \\ ill be instru funds. ad\ ice. and Ner\ ice atI requent mental in helping ou deeide \k Inch opportunities On an as-needed basis. Collaboration child or lannl to "adopt."I )nce the The kinds of helpo \ hied might ou can see tharsupporting I lead relationship is Iormed. agree on include man\ (it the suggestions listed St5u1 prm ides a \\ ide range 01 possi- rleCil IC goals and he prepared to in this bulletin. as \\ ell as special bilmes tor club poijects. at so cral make a long-term commitment to need disco\ ered m a L. ommitment itt dub lerent le \ eIs 01 support. Because reach them. the program. Be stile to re1er to the I lead Stan \\ orks dose' \ itli other ongoing L.ommitment \\ Ilene\ er puhlic loeal agenctes. \ our L. lith could also elatio:imatenals become ntoled m those programs as !MIMEO, \\ ell.!lead Start is brut\ a 011111111.111iI Literacy iolLtholillIoll el fort. and support from \ off clubould be a \\ elcome Illiterac and f unctional addition. are great problems in titil NO\ . Illiterac to an degree ()hen leads to a poor sell -image. la\.k of education. 1)("erl. find Ariflic \lan ol the parents ()I Head Start khildren ha poor reading skills the must impro\ in order to impro\ e the qualit \ ol lie tor their I hese parents ha \ taken an important step in the right direction h enrolling their children in I lead Start. hut the parents prohahl \ need help a \\ The IlltN \\ ell-k110\\ ii \ olunteei aCt \ it \ lor literac\ is to bkxonte 1`. I \\milli', 1111\1'11:Mona! Oblico personal tutor. Not c \ en.one \\ 3(06 \\*00(.1\ it% 1 MCC Indianapolis. Indiana 462oN.lkg,

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A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Scald Burns

The Problem The Program The Role of Kiwanis Every day a hundred children are The National SAFE KIDS Cam- A Kiwanis club can support the rushed to emergency rooms for paign has developed a program to campaign's massive scald bum treatment of scald burns. Every year prevent scald bums, and Kiwanis prevention effort on its own, but it 5,000 children are scalded by hot clubs are urged to participate. can increase its effectiveness by water, most often in the bathtub: Kiwanis International is a member of working with a local SAFE KIDS while another 32,000 are scalded by the National Coalition to Prevent coalition. Clubs can call the National other hot substances, most often in Childhood Injury, the group that SAFE KIDS Campaign office, 202/ the kitchen. Burns serious enough to sponsors the SAFE KIDS Campaign. 939-4993, to learn if there is a require medical attention befall more More than ninety other organizations coalition in the community. If not, than one million youngsters annually. are members, including the American the club can start one or work Most of these children are burned in Academy of Pediatrics, the American informally with other coalition their own homes by tap water, hot Red Cross, and the National Safety members, such as pediatricians, beverages, and hot foods. Nearly half Council. And more than eighty children's hospitals, and local safety of these young victims are under five- SAFE KIDS state and local coalitions councils. years-old. have sprung up to help the campaign The following suggestions can be A burn is one of the most painful achieve its goals. used effectively in both U.S. and non- and devastating injuries a person can U.S. districts. These are just some of experience. Bum patients often face the ways clubs or coalitions might extended and painful hospitalization, work to reduce scald burn injuries in disfigurement, and possible disability. young children. Overwhelming emotional scars can Install anti-scald safety valves last a lifetime. Families of burn In many low-income multi-family victims often encounter financial buildings, inadequate plumbing hardship and emotional anguish. systems, low-cost construction, and a Burns are the second leading cause huge demand for hot water often of accidental death among children in mean boiler temperatures are set the United States. Because children's drastically high. As a result, water skin is thinner than adults', they temperatures on lower floors are sustain more severe bums at lower significantly higher than on upper temperatures and in less time. floors. Where existing plumbing does Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that not regulate water temperatures scald burn accidents are preventable. effectively, safety valves can be installed. A Kiwanis club can investigate local needs and install one of two types of regulators:

5 1 Safety valvesUsing a special Kiwanis clubs can help amend Organize training sessions to teach temperature-sensitive spring to stop plumbing codes in these ways: parents, baby-sitters, and child care the flow of scaldin2 water, the safety Make state, city, and local officials workers how to react effectively in a valve is set to react before water aware of the SAFE KIDS code bum emergency. temperature reaches 120 degrees change submission... Educate high risk families Fahrenheit. It senses scalding water Send letters of support for the code Statistics show that the lower a and instantly reduces the flow to a change to regulations committee family's socioeconomic status, the trickle. Running cold water through members. higher the incidence of bum injuries. the valve resets it. Clubs can pur- Follow up to ensure that the codes Children who are supervised by older chase these inexpensive valves and are implemented uniformly and siblings or left unsupervised for install them or give them to residents enforced. extended periods of time while to install. Increase public awareness "If a parents are working are at great risk, Combination valvesThese more disease were killing our children in as are children living in large multi- expensive valves maintain a constant the proportion that accidents are," family apartment buildings, espe- ratio of hot-to-cold. They are more declared C. Everett Koop, former cially public housing. Statistics also effective than safety valves but are U.S. Surgeon General and Chairman indicate that the non-white popula- not widely available and may require of the National SAFE KIDS Cam- tion's risk for burn injury is 76 installation by a plumber. paign, "people would be outraged and percent greater than the white Amend plumbing codes demand that this killer be stopped." population. Identify children in your Children living in large multi-family Make your community aware of community who are at greatest risk. apartment buildings are more often the tragic statistics on scald burns: With approval from the manager the victims of severe tap water burns. Order brochures from the National or administrator of a facility that Water temperatures in some of these SAFE KIDS Campaign The serves high-risk children, present areas have been tested at 193 degrees. publication warns parents about programs that educate youngsters and A child's exposure for just three scald bum dangers in the bathroom their parents. Make sure children seconds to water at 140 degrees, a and kitchen and offers simple safety know whom to call in an emergency common temperature in most homes, instructions. Distribute the informa- and what to say. Use a toy telephone can result in third degree burns tion in low-income housing areas, to teach children how to get help. requiring hospitalization and skin child care centers, shopping malls, Do the children know their grafts. and clinics. addresses? Can house or apartment Inadequate regulation allows Order the print public service an- numbers be seen easily from the developers and landlords to install nouncement from the National street at night? The club could devices that leave many low-cost SAFE KIDS Campaign and place it purchase numbers from a hardware housing units equipped with fixtures in local newspapers. store and attach them. unable to control high water tempera- Produce and dispense stickers that tures or regulate water pressure list telephone numbers for emer- properly. gency services. Plumbing codes are regulations Promote SAFE KIDS Week in May. that define the types of products used, To learn more, contact the National the acceptable methods of installa- SAFE KIDS Campaign office. tion, and the overall construction characteristics of a plumbing system. Codes must be adhered to during the construction of a building or the building will not be approved for occupancy. Plumbing codes to reduce the maximum water temperature in newly constructed residences to the suggested 120 degrees would significantly reduce the number of scald burn victims.

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2 llold "Parent Alert!" sessions that Apply cool water over the area. warn them scald burns happen when Using a clean, white cloth apply Local SAFE KIDS children: water to the burn for at least three to are left unattended in the bathtub five minutes. Be careful not to Coalitions and the child turns on the hot water. break any blisters that may have The number that follows each state are placed in water that is too hot. formed. Cover burns with a soft, indicates the current number of local are in the tub \A hen another child clean, dry dressing or bandage. SAFE KIDS coalitions. Call the turns on the hot water. Do not pack the burned area in ice. National SAFE KIDS Campaign fall into a tub of hot water. This may increase the severity of office, 202/939-4993, to find out the the burn. coalition nearest to you or to explore StreAs the SAFE KIDS Campai.o. Do not amly ointments, butter, or the possibility of starting one. Suggest/0115.1.0r safety m the bath- any homemade remedy to the bum. Alabama, 4 room: These products retain heat and may Arkansas, 2 Never leave your child alone in the make the burn deeper. They may Arizona, 3 bathtub. also cause infection. California. 2 Test the water before you put your Seek medical attention quickly. Connecticut. I child in the bathtub. Washington, D.C.. I Run cold water first and then adjust Florida. 7 temperature with hot water. Georgia. 4 Face your child away from the Illinois.I bathroom fixtures. Children are less Helping Scald Burn Indiana, 2 likely to manipulate faucets that are VI 1ms Kansas, I out of sight. The average hospital stay for burn Kentucky. 2 Turn down the thermostat on the hot patients is seventeen days. In Louisiana, 4 water heater to 120 degrees Fahren- addition, young children, who Massachusetts. I heit or 50 degrees Celsius. respond to their injuries by reerting Maryland, I Install an anti-scald device in the Michigan, 2 to behavior they had previously faucets and show er head. outgrown or who experience night- Missouri, 4 mares. may need emotional treat- Montana, I Teach safety in the kitchen: Nevada, I ment.It is important that a mental Keep children out of the kitchen health professional work V. ith the New Mexico. 2 w hen cooking or create a "no- zone. New York. 3 patient and the family until all Keep appliance cords out of reach. North Carolina, 3 negative feelings are resok ed. Keep tablecloths and place mats out A club's financial resources might Ohio. 2 of reach. Oklahoma. I be well spent on helping the families Put pans on back burners and turn of burn victims. Studies show that 40 Pennsylvania. 2 all pot handles toward the back of Texas, 4 percent of the children arc from the stme. families on Medicaid and an addi- Utah. I Keep hot food away from the table Virginia, 3 tional 20 percent from families with edge. Wisconsin, I no health insurance coverage. Many of the states named above Projected nationwide costs for provid- Train familio to treat burn victims also have state SAFE KIDS coali ing intensive burn care total S100 tions. In addition, there are state quickly and elledively: million per year. Stop the burning. Remove the coalitions in Alaska. Colorado. source of heat. If clothing catches Delaware. Maine. Minnesota. tie fire, smother the flames with a Hampshire. New Jersey. North blanket or by rolling on the ground. Dakota, and Rhode Island. Remove all burned clothing. Clothing may retain heat and make National SAFE KIDS Campaign the burn deeper. Remove all II I Michigan Ave. N.W. clothing from the neck as well as the Washington, D.C. 2001(1-297(1 burn area. Swelling may occur immediately.

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3 First degree bum.; cause minor damage to che skin. There is no bhster and onl minor pain.

Second degree burns ma cause Supert fetal or deep damage to the skin and minor to sex ere pain v, ith hit \ter. The healing process ma take het%een three to sieeks. hut the healed skin mas he of poor

qualit . Scar tissue also inaform. Third degree burns destro all skin laers. (ienerall. the blood essels are charred and the ner es are dead. so there is no pain. On areas larger than one square centimeter. skin grafting V.Ii he necessar\

Fourth degree burns, the most se ere. completel destro the skin and damage the ti'Nue. miNt.le. Nine. and tither s t rue t u re,. These burns require complete reconstruction of the at fected area.

Resources Available from SAFE KIDS Several educational materials arc available from SAFE KIDS. To order, write the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, P.O. Box 4779, Monticello, MN 55365, or call (612) 295-4135. Some relevant materials are listed below. "How to Protect Your Child from Injury"a 16-page, 4-color booklet for parents (box of 50, item # 001-50, $12.00). "Scald Burn Brochure"a brochure for parents and caregivers about how to prevent tap water and hot liquid scald burns (box of 50, item # 007-50, $10.00). "Scald Burn Prevention Strategy" a comprehensive guide for implementing a scald burn prevention campaign (item # 030, $10.00). "Scald Burn Prevention VHS Video"a VHS video for parents and caregivers about how to prevent tap watcr and hot liquid scald burns (item #050, $24.00). "TV PSAsScald Burns"a 10 minute package of four scald burn public service announcements (item # 090-3/4, $40.00). "Burn Resource Materials"a comprehensive guide to obtaining burn prevention information available from various organizations (item # 120, $7.50).

Reproduce thc SAFE KIDS brochure titled "Everyday 100 Children are Burned" found in this bulletin and distribute it t hroughout your community to generate awareness ofscald burns, Kiwanis, and SAFE KIDS. Take the public service advertisement ("On August 19") to your local newspaper and have it included in publicat ions.

Co 4 They are burned inthe bathtffil andkitchen and must betreated in hospitals. These scald burns can killchildren. Usually they leave scarson a child'sface, hands, legs, chest that can last a lifetime. Mostscald burns happen in the kitchen. The worst oneshappen in the bathtub. They happen most often tochildren under fimr years old.

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After the bathtub is illed, put your whole hand in the water and move your hand quickly back and Prth Ibr several seconds. if it frels even a little bit hot, then it is too hot .f.or your child. Add more cold water. Repeat the test with your other hand. When the water feels comfOrtable, it is safe to put your child in the bathtub. Test the water before you put your child in the bathtub!

Children will turn on the water if they are left alone. One secotul-- that's all it takes .fOr hot tap water to burn a child. So when the phone rings. or there is a knock on the door, stay with your child. The other can wait. When the kitchen timer goes off, or another child needs youand it can't waittake your child with you.

Never leave your child alone in the bathtub!

IN THE KITCHEN Keep it out of reach!

Children are burned when hot liquid.s or jOod are left within their reach. INE Put pans on rear burners. Turn pot handles toward the back of the stove. Place hot dishes at the back 4 the counter. Keep hot foods away from the table edge. Keep appliance cords out of reach. 4111 Only use table cloths and place mats when children aren't around.

6 2 ON AUGUST 19, A KNOCK ON THE DOOR THEJA LIVES

Last August, 16-month-old Douglas And perhaps the greatest tragedy is that all of Jarrettt and his older brother were enjoying their these accidents are preventab.e. bath when someone knocked at the door. Please, test the water first. If it's at all uncom- Douglas' mother left them to answer it. She had fortable to you, it's too hot for them. And never, ever been gone only a few moments when she heard leave children alone in the tub. Douglas scream. Running to the bathroom, she Let's keep our children safe. found him under the faucet, with scalding hot water pouring onto him. Two weeks later, Douglas died. NATIONAL Every year, there are 5,000 cases like Douglas' SAFE KIDS children severely injured, or even killed, by hot CAMPAIGN tap water. Naffional tenter

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6 4 YCPO #4 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Jijj5mong 46000 A campaign for pregnant =Awarenesswomen

Smoking also increases the 1. Organize support Gather The Problem chances that a child will be born relevant data from local experts and mentally retarded or with cerebral gain support from the health and The number of young women who palsy or epilepsy. Smoking during business communities. smoke is on the rise, even though pregnancy has been linked to Sudden 2. Develop a public awareness many of them know that smoking Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and is campaign Publicize smoking causes lung cancer, emphysema, and known to cause Respiratory Distress awareness for pregnant women, using often leads to heart disease. Perhaps Syndrome. As smokers' children enclosed materials, materials from more alarming is that one-third of grow, they may develop other professional health organizations, or them continue to smoke even after respiratory diseases. They may also club-generated material. they become pregnant. be shorter and smaller than other 3. Provide assistance to While a mature smoker may not children, develop hyperactivity, score smokers Sponsor smoking- develop serious health problems for lower on math and verbal tests, and cessation seminars conducted by many years, a fetus does quickly. be deficient in overall ability. health care professionals in which When a pregnant woman smokes, her Many pregnant women do not those willing to help themselves and fetus is contaminated with toxic grasp the detrimental effects smoking their children can receive detailed substances such as nicotine and has upon their unborn children. information and guidance. Organize carbon monoxide, which cut off Some, for one reason or other, simply and oversee support groups for oxygen and nutrition, retard growth, have never been informed. Still pregnant women and for fathers who and cause mental and physical others are gripped so tightly by their are trying to quit smoking. defects. smoking habits that they cannot break Children of smokers may be born them and do not know where to seek with low birth weight (five and one- help. They need to learn about the half pounds or less), a condition dangers and where they can seek accounting for more than 55 percent assistance, for their own good and for Organizing Support of all infant deaths. Some studies the good of their children. After an awareness campaign indicate that twentyone to 39 percent committee is formed, preparations of low birth weight cases are caused and assessments will be necessary. by smoking. These may include: "In other words," says Louise Statistics The club should have Floyd of the (U.S.) Centers for Overview of the an ample supply of ammunition for Disease Control, "we could reduce Awareness publicity. Statistics local statistics low birth weight by twenty-one to 39 in particular will provide this. The percent if we could eliminate smok- Campaign club also will want to learn as much ing during pregnancy. In fact, it has Because many pregnant women do as possible in order to execute the been called the most preventable not understand the effects their campaign with conviction. Possible cause of low birth weight (in the smoking habits can have on their sources include: U.S.)." children, a possible project would be to launch an awareness campaign to sharpen vague understanding and educate the unknowing. The campaign could be done in three phases:

1 6 5 Local hospitals and health facilities Government health care agencies. Funding Monetary contribu- (pediatrics and obstetrics). Social service agencies. tions from businesses, health associa- Local medical or health associa- Groups specializing in smoking tions, private medical professionals, tions. cessation. hospital foundations, and other Obstetricians, gynecologists, Invite representatives from each to service organizations are options that pediatricians, and other health care join your planning committee. Ask can help the club fund publicity. professionals in private practice. them to help develop the campaign, When requesting funding, explain the Local reproductive health service provide technical information, and campaign and its goals, the expected agencies. lend hands-on support. If your area expense, the monetary contributions Local or county health departments. has a local medical association, it from the club and other organizations, American Lung Association local may want to get involved. The par- and how much funding the club is office. ticipation of other groups will asking of them. March of Dimes local chapter. generate many more solid ideas, and Methods of publicizing Community or university library. the campaign will reach a greater Publicity of the risks involved with Find the number of instances in number of people. smoking during pregnancy is crucial which pregnancies were complicated Planning and duration The club for heightening public awareness, and by smoking, including deaths, should give itself at least one month it can take many forms: stillbirths, miscarriages, and adverse to organize support. Depending upon Print ads Place public service developments occurring in a child's the degree of cooperation, this phase announcements in the newspapers, first years. Obtain both percentages may be longer or shorter. utilizing as large an area as the and actual numbers, perhaps focusing Judging from community response newspapers or campaign funds will on one or two primary results, such as and organizational support, the allow. Use print ads available from low birth weight or perinatal deaths. campaign can be extended at the the International Office, solicit Get information for each of the past club's discretion. Keep in mind that materials from participating agencies, five to ten years. the longer the campaign's duration, or develop your own. Newspapers Target Audience As health the more people it will reach. It may not willing to donate an adequate information is gathered, attempt to be more effective to plan for a six- to amount of space may negotiate on obtain demographic information from nine-month campaign or even an price or donate a certain amount of the same sources to estimate the age ongoing program. space if the club pays the remainder. range and number of people to which Offer this idea to them if they hedge the campaign will apply. This will at a donation proposal. Area busi- help determine the times public =or nesses may wish to pay for page service announcements should be space in return for having their names aired (if that option is available) and The Awareness printed on the PSA. Rotate the PSAs what publications should be targeted Campaign so that a different one is printed every day or every week. To obtain print for print advertisements, Though Smokers tend to delay quitting publicity should be directed primarily advertisement slicks, phone or write because the ill effects aren't an to the Program Development Depart- toward pregnant women, it also immediate danger. What the ciuh would be wise to include smoking ment at the Kiwanis International needs to emphasize is that the poisons Office. fathers because second-hand, or a pregnant woman ingests go directly "passive," smoke is dangerous as Letters Send letters to the editor to the fetus, with immediate and for further exposure, citing local and well. Further, it is more difficult for dangerous effects. Assuming that a mother to stop smoking if the father national statistics and making good pregnant smokers have not been use of anecdotes. Persuade mothers smokes. informed about the dangers of Coalitions Strive to form a who quit smoking when they became smoking during pregnancy, or for pregnant, those who didn't and whose coalition or partnership with other their own reasons have chosen to local organizations, particularly those children suffered, and physicians to disregard warnings, the club's first write letters to the editor as well. specializing in health or child care, step is to publicize the concerns. including: American Lung Association (local affiliate). March of Dimes (local chapter). American Academy of Pediatrics (state chapter). Local obstetric and gynecology associations.

2 Radio Radio is an excellent Ask printers, billboard companies, During the publicity phase, the means to publicize this concern. and photocopy outlets to donate club may want to advertise a phone Using the materials provided, ask materials for posters and handbills. number where interested persons can radio stations to broadcast public Because printing is expensive, it may call for information about the service announcements as often as not be possible to receive donations, seminars. Phone calls serve a dual possible for as long as possible. but ask if printing can be done at cost. purpose: they give people informa- Through professional health service News Stories Wise use of news tion and give the club an idea of how contacts, attempt to locate a mother media is particularly important. many people will attend the seminars, whose child has suffered or died as a Make all newspapers and broadcast The club also could ask callers to result of smoking. She may wish to stations aware of te campaign and register for the seminars, and then warn others. Such a compelling persuade them to co news or feature make follow-up calls on the day of statement could profoundly affect stories. Make sure to give them the seminar to ensure that the persons pregnant smokers. Another radio plenty of notice. Meetings with will attend. message from a mother who quit newspaper editors and radio and smoking might provide positive television talk show hosts can help reinforcement. achieve this goal. 111!111=MMIN. Television Television PSAs Publicity resources ---Publicity may be broadcast on network or cable resources the club should plan to Providing television stations, often on donated contact include: Assistance to time or for reduced rates. A vide- Printers and photocopy otape of PSAs may be obtained from outlets Ask them to print the Smokers the International Office, the Ameri- brochure (master enclosed) for free or Seminars should be the peak of the can Lung Association, or the March at a reduced rate. campaign, when the community has of Dimes. Contact local affiliates for Billboard companies Urge been made aware, through publicity, more information. billboard companies to erect one or that a problem exists. Answers now Billboards, posters, flyers, bro- more signs. must be given and solutions offered. chures Using materials available Radio and television The seminars can give pregnant from the International Office, or club- stations Take the Kiwanis PSA smokers a chance to start anew. generated materials, print posters to radio script (enclosed) or videotape to be hung in windows of businesses, the stations and ask that it be copied Seminars child care centers, health centers, and used. The seminars' objective is to hospitals, social service centers, and Newspapers and local maga- educate pregnant women on: physicians' offices particularly zines Meet with the editor or Smoking during pregnancy (general those of obstetricians, pediatricians, publisher and request that space be statistics). and gynecologists. alloted for the campaign's PSAs How smoking affects the fetus. Brochures may be left in health (available from the International The health risks involving the fetus. care offices or given to obstetricians Office). Encourage them to develop How to quit smoking. to hand out to their patients. Contact articles on the effects of smoking Ask health care professionals to physicians' offices, as well as during pregnancy and offer the speak at the seminars. Speakers businesses, and ask them to lay out contacts the club has developed. should include obstetricians, pediatri- the brochures for their customers. Plan for at least two weeks of cians, public health officials, college This also will help the club determine publicity before the first smoking medical professors, and representa- how many to print. cessation seminar, making clear that tives from the March of Dimes, the Counter-top flyers are expedient additional information on smoking American Lung Association, and for publicity and are inexpensive. during pregnancy and how to stop other health organizations. Simple photocopies can be distributed smoking will be available at seminars Contact all speakers ahead of time in area businesses. and that support groups will be to learn what materials, provisions, or Billboards also are an excellent formed. Make arrangements with other accommodations should be source of mass conlmunication. broadcasting stations to increase the provided to make their duties go Approach outdoor advertising frequency of times PSAs will be aired smoothly. agencies about billboard space in the two days preceding the cam- donations. Company names usually paign's seminars. Publicity should be are printed at the bottom of bill- planned to run intensely for as long as boards, or may be listed in the phone funds or donations allow, then book yellow pages. There may be dwindle as necessary. However, some difficulties securing space, publicity should run the duration of however, because billboards are a the campaign. Assess the amount of main advertising medium for tobacco air time and page space available and companies. plan its distribution so that all of it will not be used at the beginning of the campaign.

6 7 Give the speakers the seminars' 5 percent of the pregnant women in objective. Then, let them determine the community. Take into account INSTRUCTIONS how they will discuss the topics and data from phone calls inquiring about 111111111111110, what aspects of smoking during the seminars. However, prepare The page to the right is a pregnancy merit the most attention. accommodations for more people brochure, ready to be printed. To They may add categories that they than are actually expected. Hold the use this master: feel are important. Work with them seminars at club meeting places, at I. Remove the staples in the to develop a schedule of specific, community facilities, or at schools or gutter between the pages. related topics that will be discussed. universities. The seminars should last 2. Cut along the gutter fold. If more than one guest is sched- between one and two hours. 3. Have the brochure p'nted, uled to speak at one seminar, coordi- After expectant mothers and double-sided. nate the specific topics each will fathers attend a seminar, they may 4. Have the printed brochures address. Give them adequate time to recommend others to attend. Semi- folded like business letters (#10 prepare their lectures. These arrange- nars should be held regularly letter fold), with the panel that ments can be made in the committee perhaps once or twice per month reads "When You Breathe for meetings when representatives are to ensure that "word-of-mouth" Two, Your Baby's Health De- present. response is accommodated. Also, pends on You" as the cover. Panel discussions and question- some may want to attend additional and-answer periods also are possible sessions for reinforcement. Ask seminar activities, especially if representatives to continue speaking several speakers and experts are at seminars throughout the cam- scheduled at the same seminar. paign's duration, or as often as The group can discuss the difficul- Personal testimony is perhaps the possible. Having several organiza- ties of quitting smoking; reiterate the most effective way to capture tions involved increases the likeli- reasons why they are quitting, to help attention. Try to find women who hood that at least one representative solidify their convictions; discuss the smoked during pregnancy and whose will be available to speak at each best ways to use smoking cessation children suffered or died as a result. seminar. The campaign committee techniques; and provide a sense of Ask them to speak at the seminars to should find out which representatives camaraderie, which will help offset persuade other women to avoid will continue to participate thoughout the effect of nicotine withdrawal. making the same mistake. Also, find the campaign. The club, as well as the support women who gave up smoking when group, should plan to follow each they became pregnant, and have them Support Groups pregnancy until the baby is born. tell how they went about it.Physi- For most smokers, g.ving up Send flowers, cards, and balloons to cians and health agencies can provide cigarettes can be a brutal test of the mother while she is in the help locating these women. willpower. Groups of pregnant hospital. After she comes home, hold Videos about smoking and smokers who are trying to quit may a celebration dinner in honor of her, other substance use during preg- provide the extra support needed to the father, and the baby, and award nancy should be shown at the overcome the habit. her a plaque signifying her outstand- seminars. Informational materials Find someone trained in smoking ing accomplishment: protecting the such as brochures or smoking cessation to conduct the support health of her baby. cessation kits, as well as buttons, group's meetings. Volunteers might t-shirts, bumper stickers, window be found at the American Lung Other Events stickers, or auto air fresheners should Association, March of Dimes, a local The club also may want to set up a be given to those attending the medical association or reproductive booth at the local mall, where it can seminars. Videos and reproducible health organization, or university or give away buttons, bumper stickers, logos and slogans for buttons, t-shirts. community programs specifically or window stickers. The club may and stickers are available from the designed for this purpose. Inform also set up a "Peg-a-Pack" game in International Office and from organi- obstetricians and other physicians that which persons could throw balls or zations listed in this bulletin. a support group has been formed and bean bags at cigarette packs. Another Unless the club sets up a registra- ask them to encourage their smoking game, in which the objective is to tion process for the seminars, the patients to attend. throw or knock packs of cigarettes likely attendance can only be esti- Begin support group therapy the into a trash can, also is a possibility. mated. A generous estimate would be same week as the seminars to give an Winners could receive T-shirts, immediate backup. Hold a support stickers, or other anti-smoking prizes. group meeting once or twice per Anti-smoking festivals, commu- week, or more often, depending on nity "Baby Day" festivals, or anti- the group's wishes. smoking "demonstrations" also arc possibilities.

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March of Dimes Radio PSAs for Smoking Campaign for Pregnant Women Birth Defects Foundation 1275 Mamaroneck Avenue Low birth weight is the leading cause of death among infants. If you White Plains, NY 10605 are pregnant and smoke, you are doubling the chances that your child will Telephone (914) 997-4468 be born with a low birth weight. If you smoke heavily, you increase the risk by 300 percent. Your child deserves a better chance at life. Throw National Heart, Lung, away your cigarettes, not your child's health. and Blood Institute This message brought to you by this station and the Kiwanis Club of Education Programs Information Center Time: 15 seconds 4733 Bethesda Avenue Bethesda, MD 20814-4820 You probably know that nicotine is in cigarettes. But did you know Telephone (301) 951-3260 that it is also a deadly poison used in pesticides? If you smoke during pregnancy, you are exposing your baby to the same chemicals that are used Office on Smoking and Health to kill insects. Your child deserves a better chance at life. Throw away Centers for Disease Control your cigarettes, not your child's health. US Department of Health This message brought to you by this station and the Kiwanis Club of and Human Services 5600 Fishers Lane Time: 15 seconds Rockville, MD 20852 Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas from auto exhausts that can kill you. American Lung Association It is also contained in cigarette smoke. If you smoke during pregnancy, 1740 Broadway your baby is taking in this toxic gas. Your child deserves a better chance at New York, NY 10019 life. Throw away your cigarettes, not your child's health. Telephone (212) 315-8700 This message brought to you by this station and the Kiwanis Club of

Appalachia Public Health District I Time: 20 seconds South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 dangerous chemicals. If Sara Jo Moore, Director of Health you're pregnant and you smoke, all those chemicals go straight to your Education baby. Your baby deserves a better chance at life. Throw away your P.O. Box 1906 cigarettes, not your child's health. Anderson, SC 29622 This message brought to you by this station and the Kiwanis Club of Telephone (803 ) 225-3731 Time: 15 seconds Women and Smoking Public Health Service Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy have a greater risk of Rockville, MD 20857 developing respiratory diseases as they grow up. As young children, they often may be ill: they may be less proficient in verbal and math skills: and Cancer Information Services they may be shorter and smaller than other children. Your baby deserves a Department of Health and Human better chance at life. If you're a pregnant smoker, throw away your ciga- Services rettes, not your child's health. Remember, you're breathing for two. I -8(X)-421-6237 This message brought to you by this station and the Kiwanis Club of

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What kinds of compromises on your child's hearth would you be willing to make-I To the Editor: Women who smoke during pregnancy, or husoands who smoke around their pregnant wives, seriously compromise the health and general I have have some questions for mothers-to-be in our well-being of their children. community: When your baby is born, will you put pesticides in its Perhaps the saddest aspect is that they do it unintentionally. Most formula? Will you pump carbon monoxide from your auto exhaust expectant parents do not understand the health problems they can create into its bedroom? Of course you wouldn't intentionally do this, but for their unborn children when they smoke if you smoke during pregnancy, the basic effect could be the The United States Centers for Disease Control report that one out of same. three women smokes when she becomes pregnant, and that one in four When a pregnant woman smokes, she exposes her child to a continues to smoke throughout the pregnancy. The resulting effects can number of deadly poisons, including nicotine and carbon be disastrous. monoxide. Nicotine is a deadly poison used in pesticides to kill Smoking during pregnancy doubles the risk of a baby being born with Insects. Carbon monoxide is a gas contained in cigarette smoke low birth weight (five-and-one-half pounds or less), which is linked to more that literally cuts off oxygen supplies. than half of all infant deaths. Forty-seven thousand babies are born with You might respond, "I've smoked for years and it hasn't killed low birth weight each year. Many cases were caused by smoking. me yet. So how much damage could it do to my baby in nine Smoking during pregnancy also has been known to cause mental months?' retardation and cerebral palsy. It has been linked to Sudden Infant Death First of all, it is killing you slowly. Secondly, a baby is very Syndrome and is known to cause Respiratory Distress Syndrome. One delicate, especially before it's born. What may not hurt you pack of cigarettes per day doubles the possibility of a miscarriage, and thr. immediately can destroy your baby's health. risk of stillbirth increases by 55 percent. Approximately one-half of If you wouldn't intentionally hurt your child, take steps not to perinatal deaths deaths occuring at the time of birth are linked to hurt it unintentionally. The Kiwanis Club of smoking. will be sponsoring smoking awareness and cessation seminars To all the pregnant women in our community, I urge you to throw away for pregnant women and their husbands on your cigarettes for your child's sake and your own. at in the To help you quit smoking, the Kiwanis Club of No cost is involved for those attending, and it could make all the will be sponsoring smoking awareness and cessation seminars for difference in the world to you and your baby. pregnant women and their husbands, beginning at in the Chairman No costs will be involved for those attending. Smoking Awareness Campaign Committee Kiwanis Club of Chairman Smoking Awareness Campaign Committee Kiwanis Club of

Letters-to-the-Editor for the Smoking Campaign for Pregnant Women To be published in editorial sections of newspapers

To the Editor: Four women in a small town had babies during the past two years. Z.`ne of the babies was born weighing only three pounds and spent his first few weeks of life in the hospital, hooked by a mass of tubes to several large, brooding machines. Many thousands of dollars later, the parents were allowed to take the child home. "You were lucky," the doctors said. Indeed, the child lived, but the doctors now suspect he is inentally retarded. The second baby weighed in at a whopping eight pounds. and all seemed to be well. Two weeks later, the child's panic-stricken parents rushed him to the hospital in the middle of the night. The child was not breathing properly and was on the verge of asphyxiation. He, too, spent several weeks in the hospital. The infant, the doctors said, had developed severe asthma and a variety of other respiratory problems. A year later, the child has learned to walk, but can only make it half-way across a room. He has to stop to catch his breath. The third infant, like the first, was born weighing three pounds. She too spent weeks with her tiny body shrouded in tubes. But unlike the first baby. she never went home. All these children had one thing in common: Their mothers smoked during pregnancy. The physicians believed the afflictions from which these children suffered were caused by toxins their mothers ingested from smoking cigarettes. Smoking during pregnancy is one of the primary causes of infant mortality and physical detects in children. Babies weighing five-and-one-half pounds or less are not prepared to live outside Kiwanis International Office the womb, smoking doubles this risk. If you're pregnant and you smoke, please attend the upcoming 3636 Woodview Trace smoking awareness and cessation seminar sponsored by the Kiwanis Indianapolis, Indiana 46268 Club of on at in the . It costs U.S.A. nothing to attend, and it's one of the best things you canao for your baby. By the way, the fourth child ... he's probably playing in his sandbox right now, or running through the yard. His mother didn't smoke. (317) 875-8755 (Worldwide) (317) 879-0204 (Fax) Chairman Smoking Awareness Campaign Committee (800) 879-4769 (North America) Kiwanis Club of

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A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Rxenfing Fqr

"The current environment often A parentina fair is a one-day or The Need leaves new parents without the weekend event that: knowledge. support, and resources I. Introduces parents to resources in Raising a child is tremendously necessary for a healthy beginning for the community. rewarding, but it often can he difficult their families,- says Patricia Pollert, and stresstnl. Child-rearing isn't who is Perinatal Services Coordinator Offers professional advice about learned overnight, and as parents at St. Luke's Hospital in Fargo. North parenting and child development, and attempt to fine-tune their ahilities, they Dakota. "Parents, in general. often are answers questions raised by parents. may not take actions that benefit their unaware of community programs :hat 3. Provides an opportunity for parents children most. exist for their benefit.- in the community to interact and Sometimes, a single decision can "trade notes.- impact a child, fbr better or worse, for the rest of his or her life. Nutrition, education, family unity, fitness, and safety are important for the overall Solution: The well-being of children, but too often Parenting Fair Planning a parents do not have the background Proper child development is and knowledge needed to make Parenting Fair fundamental for children to grow up informed decisions. healthy. both physically and mentally. Four components are essential for a Some parents are at a disadvantage But for parents, each day is a new parenting fair to achieve its goals from the start. Working parents often frontier filled with uncertainties. effectively: have difficulty spending quality time Kiwanians can help solve some of with their children due to job their problems by holding a "parenting Professional involvement responsibilities. When both parents fair,- which educates parents about work, they have even less time to Logistics support sources for effective devote to children. Single parents face child-rearing and helps today's special problems raising children, such Publicity children grow up to be healthy, happy as attempting to fulfill the role of the citizens of tomorrow. Business sponsorship absent parent and making sure children receive adequate family time and Do each in the order presented here supervision. to avoid problems and difficulties.

1 Phase I:Professional Dieticians Create a list of topics This is primarily for your benefit. Involvement Nurses A parenting fair's thrust is to It helps solidify your concept of what educate parents about raising children Cooperative Extension Service the parenting fair should accomplish. to be healthy, safe, and happy. Many It will also help you: Stress centersfor adjusting to agencies and programs exist that can life with children help parents achieve these goals hut Decide who to invite to your remain unknown in the community. A Universities planning 'fleeting. parenting fair gives parents an Develop a preliminary agenda for opportunity to learn about and receive Child health notables or the parenting fair. information from these support personalities for keynote addresses sources. Determine which agencies and Look at the list of organizations on organizations to contact to set up the Priority One Advisory Council Who are they? booths. (included in your Young Children: Possible parenting resources to Priority One kit) and request contact invite to the parenting fair might The following topics can help you information about state and national include: create your list. The club or organi/ations from the district Major professional group may want to add Emphasis Program chairman. Government health issues to the list they feel are important or have relevance in the community. agencieslocal, state, and federal How to involve them levels Prof'essional involvement is as Child care Local. state, and national child important in the parenting fair's Choosing child care health care organizations planning stages as in its implementation. Generally, Choosing a babvsitter Local pediatric and medical professionals have more contacts in associations their fields than Kiwanians. and Health and Safety March of Dimes (local chapter) probably a good deal more influence. Infant growth and development To involve professionals, take these American Academy of Pediatrics four steps: Nutrition (state affiliate) Children's fitness Create a list of topics. Red Cross (local chapter) Health issues Select a group of professionals to Child care experts help you plan the fair. Immunization Teachers Hold a planning meeting with the Safety issues YMCA and YWCA professional group. Education Social workers Locate speakers and exhibitors. Developmentally appropriate Child psychologists Each step is explained below. education School guidance counselors Creative play

Hospitals Reading

Clergy Drawing and painting

Coaches and physical education teachers

Nutritionists

2 Family Emergency departments (police, Further, professionals may he more Discipline lire, medical ) attuned to parenting problems in the community and can assist in Fathering Educators or child development developing topics and creating the specialists most effective agenda for the parenting Family togetherness fair. Keep in mind, however, that Clergy Sibling rivalry many professionals are quite Various safety, medical specialty. passionate about the issues they Single parenting or parent-oriented organizations contend with daily, and some may he overzealous in their desire to address Young parents (teens) You may feel others are appropriate an issue which is of primary concern to invite s,k ho are not listed above, hut to them. The club needs to maintain Influences on children attempt to limit the meeting to no more control in ensuring that the fair has a Friends than a dozen professionals. A sample well-balanced schedule of topics and invitation letter appears on page 12. that emphasized topics are agreed Peer pressure upon by all. Self-expression Hold a planning meeting Find speakers Television and children After you've received commitments of assistance from professionals in After a schedule of topics has been various fields, your next step is to pull developed, ask the professional group Spiritual and emotional well-being them together into a team. The to locate speakers who are highly Psychological development quantity and quality of involvement competent on the topics. Promoting self-esteem in children from the professional community Ask each professional to find a hinges on this core group. speaker in his or her area of expertise. During the meeting. once again For example. if a lecture topic is "child Developing potential explain the parenting fair and its goals. abuse,- ask the professional front the Encouraging exploration Ask for their participation and local child abuse prevention coalition Recognizing and encouraging assistance in: to find a speaker. not the nutritionist. gifted children The agency or organization which Refining the topics to best address a speaker represents must have a booth Developing talents community needs. at the parenting fair. so that those who hear the lectures can obtain literature Athletics Developing an agenda that covers and additional contact information. these topics. Each potential speaker should he Select a group aware of this before committing to Gathering support from the of professionals participate. professional community. Now that you have an idea of the Plan for each speaker to gise a issues the fair should address, you can half-hour lecture on his or her topic. By holding this meeting, the club more easily select a few professionals followed by a question-and-answer can create a "snowball- effect in to invite to a planning meeting. period of fifteen to thirty minutes. which competent speakers and A good cross-section of individuals This time schedule may be altered to organizations are selected by their and representatives from organizations accommodate a greater number of peers. In this way, club members should be invited to the meeting, speakers or to allow more or less time won't need to locate professionals including: as lectures merit. Allow about IR e outside this core group to participate in minutes between lectures. Follow up the parenting fair. Pediatricians or other medical on these details with a letter to the professionals speaker. A sample folh)w-up letter appears on page 12. Child-care resource and referral Also. ask each professional to agencies develop a list of organizations and agencies in his or her area of expertise Family services agencies that the club can invite to set up County health department booths.

County welfare department

7 7 3 Phase II: Logistics If no school is availahle, you'll "I'o set up child care, take these steps: have to find another kwation. In this Once your professional group case, you need to decide whether the I. Locate a ptpkssional child-care begins its work, you can turn to the fair should be held outdoors or pmrider--Ask a qualified child-care "when, where, and how- aspects of the indoors. Each has its advantages: provider to make a list of safe and project. Before you launch publicity appropriate toys children should have or find business sponsors, details of OutdoorOutdoor settings provide an to play with during child care. Ask the event must he worked out. atmosphere that is less constraining that this list be limited to toys the There are seven logistical areas and more suitable for large crowds. child-care provider would like to have you need to plan for: People have greater freedom of in his or her own facility hut doesn't. movement. In addition, outdoor Then offer to exchange the items oP Site selection settings are more likely to attract the list for his or her services during If he or Child care passers-h) who previously had not the day of the parenting fair. heard of the event. she is agreeable. purchase the Provisions and materials recommended toys or ask for a Indnor--Indrwr settings do not depend donation, use them in child care at the Set-up on weather conditions. Buildings also parenting fair, then donate them to the Registratio have ccuivenient restniom facilities child-care provider when the i'air is and electrical capabilities. Certain lire over. Entertainment Codes and other sakistandards may need to he met. If the huilding is a 2. Proper ,facithies--Ensure that the Break-down and clean-up pohlic facility. check v ith its area which will he used for child care administrators or with local authorities has proper facilities close by. such as a to learn the requirements. kitchen and bathroom. Ask the Site selection child-care provider to list items that The optimal site for a parenting indoor/outdoor --Besides a school, the the club will need to provide for fair is a school with a gymnasium. A ideal setting w ill bae both indoor and pmper child care. school has most of the facilities the outdoor such as a fairground. club will need: Fairgomnds and public squares may 3. idemijicution---To ensure safety for hae vacant huildings suitable for each child, the club needs to devise a Gym for booths and exhibits indoor activities. skhile the athantages method of identification between of an outdc)or setting wouki he parent and child. This can be done in a Rooms for seminars retained. If such a setting is available. number of ways. such as distributing Audiovisual equipment to aid set up the indoor area so that outdoor wristbands with matching numbers for speakers with presentations activities may he moked in case of both parent and child or requiring a inclement weather. child-care registration form to be Rooms for child care completed. A sample registration form for child care appears on page 10. Kitchen for child care Child care Restrooms Perhaps one of the most important services your club can offer to make Provisions and materials Electrical outlets the parenting fair run smoothly is child The club should decide if banners fables and chairs care while parents attend seminars. and signs will adorn the fair site. Both Parents1sill base difficulty could he made by a Key Club and To arrange for use of a school. ctmcentrating on lectures--and thus Circle K club. A schedule of the day's request a meeting with the principal !nay not hcither cconing at allif they activities and lectures also will he and superintendent. A sample letter must tend to their children at the same important. A sample schedule appears appears on page ! time. A Kev Club and Circle K club on page 10. can help supervise child care.

4 Speakers should have a lectern and A record of who attends the If your club dec ides to go this route. stage. If lectures are held outside or in parenting fair may be helpful to remember two things: First, the a large room. a public address system the agencies and organizations parenting fair should not he a carnival. with a microphone will be necessary. that become involved with the "A parenting fair is serious business. Lecture audiences will need chairs and parenting fair. They may want to It should have a professional air, and exhibitors will need tables. Again, if use this information to follow up nothing at the parenting fair should your parenting fair is held at a school. with parents. An agency also may detract from that.- says 1990 these provisions will be readily want to know if the fair enabled it Committee Chairman Joe Riccio of the available. Otherwise, you may have to to reach people in its fo-.:us area. St. Marys, Georg:a. Kiwanis club. The rent them. St. Marys club staged a successful Information will be required to parenting fair. keep track of children in child Second, many parents and children attending the parenting fair may rmt be Set-up care. This can be done quickly ahle to afford to participate. When a site is secured. create a and easily by using the If the club opts for a festival map of it. Booth sites. stages, eating registration form shown on atmosphere, schedule special events at areas, child care, and other points of page I O. times other than when seminars are interest should be defined on the map being held. and numbered. Each organization and One way the club could avoid such business should be assigned a Entertainment and food conflicts would be to close the day numbered area in the exhibit hall at events ith a food event and entertainment. which to set up. Send the map to them The club ma\ w ant to arrange for The club could give "tokens- of sonte ahead of time. entertainment and food during the type to people at the conclusion of Booth set-up should he done before lunch breal. (which should last ahiiiit each seminar they attend. At the end the day of the fair, as unforseen one hour). If the club does not intend of the day, a specified number of difficulties could delay the fair to has e entenainment and/or fwd, a tokens could be cashed in for a meal. beginning on time. If the fair site is short lunch break or lunch break This would serve as both an incentive secure, set up as much as possible the should be planned. and a reward for those who attend the day before. Make clear to all However. tmd sales by sponsored seminars. participants that their booths must he youth groups during the lunch break The club also could arrange set up prior to the fair's starting time. could create an excellent fund raiser. entertainment for children and adults. Key Club or Circle K clubs could sell Children's entertainment might hot dogs. hamburgers. and soft drinks include magic shows, puppet shows. Registration and fees for a nominal cost. games. contests, balloons, or clowns. A parenting fair must be free and Your Kiwanis club may want to set Entertainment for adults might consist open to the public. It is unlikely the up its own food services as well, of music performed by country or jazz club will reach the numbers of parents perhaps opening or closing the fair bands. door prizes, raffles, and talent it should if a fee is involved. with a food event. The connection of shows or skits. Most entertainment On-site registration, however, is such an event to the parenting fair can he arranged at minimal cost to very important because: could capture more attention and clubs. Perfomiers, such as musicians. create a larger turnout. usually do im work for free. hut may An important aspect of any accept the engagement for a reduced service project is evaluation. One rate. of the ways to evaluate the impact of your parenting fair is to determine the numbers in attendance. Further, the registration forms can help you make a demographic assessment if the appropriate questions are asked. A sample registration form appears on page 9. Break-down and clean-up Use these Met hods, among others. to publicize the parenting fair: When the fair is over, club members Phase IV: should he lomied into work groups to Business clean up the grounds and break down Newspaper cidsAsk the newspaper to donate page space. Also ask the equipment. Trucks and trailers Sponsorship newspapers and television stations to may he needed to transport hon-owed do feature stories. Send Out news Once you have commitments from or rented equipment hack to its releases, and contact editors and news a variety of professionals and a owners. directors. A sample news release well-defined publicity plan. your next appears on page IO. step is to arrange financial sponsorship. Because first-rate Radio PSAA Ask local radio stations professionals have endorsed the Phase to make short public service parenting fair and are participating, Publicity announcements. A sample script you have proof of the quality of your appears on page I I. planning for possible business The St. Marys, Georgia, Kiss anis sponsors. club learned two lessons from its Distribute flyers Flyers should be In order to he successful in this final parenting fair: Publicize more and made and placed in businesses, public phase of planning your parenting fair. clearly define what's being publicized. agencies. child-care centers, grocery it is advisable to involve professionals Publicity is perhaps the key to your stores, and other locations where who are well respected and visible in parenting fair's success. Parents parents of y clung children are likely to the communitN. This will lend a great cannot attend the fair if they don't see them. Pass them out on street deal of credibility to your project. know about it. and they probably corners or at intersections. Also, place which will make acquiring business won't know about it unless you posters in windows of businesses. A sponsorship easier. publicize well. In addition, you may sample flyer appears on page 10. vlhe St. Marys, Georgia, Kiwanis not be ahle to obtain adequate business Perhaps the most e fleet is e method club found commitment from the sponsorship if you cannot provide for ther distribution is for students to professional community essential in publicity in return. take them home fount schotul. Many garnering support from businesses. "A More importantly, make slIrc you school-age children have younger business person wants to know the have a clear and concise definition of a siblings. Ask schools to distribute the event will he first class," says Riccio. parenting fair to present to the public. flyers to the students full working "A business doesn't want its name The term "parenting fair" is not week prior to the parenting fair. associated with anything less. Once a self-explanatory. business sees that professionals are Begin publicizing a full four weeks Arrange as much free publicity as behind the project, the business will be before the fair takes place. "If you possible before you move to the next more likely to support it, too." wait until two weeks prior, you've phase, business sponsorship. Publicity The involvement of business serves waited too long," Joe Riccio says. may depend in part upon donations these purposes: "Publicity should increase as the fair from businesses such as print shops draws closer." and the media. Approach them first. pumling--Through monetary donations, you can defray the costs of the project. You should ask for a specified amount of money and cite what that money will he used for.

Prodtal exposureThe presence of a business that deals in children's products can introduce parents to products on the market that NA ill aid them in raising their children.

6 Door prize donationsAneffective Gathering support from businesses Before you approach even the first way to capture public attention and is a three-step process: business, have the details of the create good turnout at the parenting parenting fair planned ahead of time. fair is by offering door prizes. Write a letterBrieflyintroduce This way, you won't he surprised hy Businesses that are hesitant to give a the Kiwanis club. Explain the questions to which you don't vet have monetary donation may he willing to parenting fair and its goals. Be sure to answers; you'll know how much donate a door prize or sell it to the club cite the professional support as well as money you need to ask for; and you'll at cost. other known business support. State in he able to say what that money will he clear terms what you are asking of the used for. Possible business sponsors include business. Tell how the donation will "If you want to get good business those that sell child-oriented produus be used. Specify what the club will do support,- Riccio says, "you have to put or are active in bettering the in return: publicity for the business. the program together, get community. Be sure to contact: recognition on primed programs, commitments from recognized verbal recognition. Also he sure to professionals, and have the means to Child-care services note that the parenting fair is free to give due credit to the businesses in the public. Mention that the parenting return for their participation.- Supermarkets fair is educational in nature, that demonstrations and sample Food companies give-aways are welcome, but the Toy stores emphasis should not he on sales. The Parenting Sample letters appear on pages 1I Retail stores and I 2. Fair Committee Child specialty stores and Club 2.Follow-upFolkmup ss ith a Child clothing stores phone call two or three da s after Participatioi mailing the letter. Be prepared to The club planning committee Book stores answer questions or concerns. Invite should consist of at least six members, Pharmacies or drug stores the business person to your next club three of whom must he dedicated. meeting so he or she can experience Implementing the fair requires Diaper services the spirit of sour club. participation from at least twelve additional club members. Each Shoe stores 3. GratitudeExpress your gratitude committee member will be responsible Dairy companies with a letter, a newspaper for organizing andArranging a certain advertisement, and a plaque. Space aspect of the fair: Athletic equipment and apparel these gestures out over the "before. stores during, and after" stages of the Professional participationWriting parenting fair. This way, the business letters to involve speakers, child-care stays involved throughout the process. agencies. and health-care agencies Gratitude is especially important for recommended by the professional future sponsorship of other projects. planning group, and to meet their Make the business feel its money and needs as participants. energy was well spent. Business participationContacting local businesses about financial sponsorship.

Entertainment-Arranging entertainment and determining supplies needed for entertainment. such as staging, lighting, and sound.

PublicityLaunchingpublicity, putting flyers or posters in businesses. mailing new s releases. and contacting local media.

8 1 7 Supplies, provisions, regulations Two months before the Selectine a site: arranging child care: Timetable fair: obtaining supplies and equipment: set-up: checking heal,h and safety A parenting fair should he planned 1. Make confirmations on speakers. regulations to be certain the event four months in advance. Planning businesses, and entertainment. occurs within the legal guidelines. ahead gives adequate time to work out 2. Map the layout of the fair. details or probleins. 3. Make a tentative program schedule. As committee chairman, you should coordinate these efforts and hold a weekly committee meeting to Four months before the share information and set priorities. fair: One month before and All committee members shoukl be Determine the si/e and scope of the until the fair begins: aware of the progress the other fair. Work out "bugs- and problems. members are making, so that one does not make arrangements that will hinder 2. Develop a list for the professional 2. Begin publicity. another's. The committee chairman planning group. 3. Arrange security for fair site and must tie it all together into a workable 3. Hnd possible locations. equipment, if necessary. plan. You may find that some areas 4. Develop a budget (S500I.000). 5. Print the program and distribute. involve greater work than others, so it 5. Set a date. may he wise to assign more than one person to a task. You may even need a 6. Hold a planning meeting. larger committee. In addition. there 7. Send out letters to possible may he circumstances that require participants. other categories to he added to the list 8. Begin locating entertainment. above. Certain areas----such as supplies. equipment, set-up. and break-down----may require many members of the club to he involved. Three months before the When the fair takes place, you w ill fair: want the entire club involved, if I Secure funding to co\ er all possible. Your committee members expenses the club cannot meet. will be in charge of their assigned areas and will direct club members 2. Determine the number of working with them. participants: begin follow-up calls to those who have not answered; begin making confirmations; determine who will speak on what subject. 3. Confirm a location. 4. Begin checking safety and health regulations. 5. Begin asking for in-kind donations for publicity and door prizes. 6. Begin locating equipment and supplies.

8 Create a registration form similar to this one, or copy and personalize this sample.

Parenting Fair Registration Form

Please take a moment to till Out this i.egktration tUrm. 'rills information is completely confidential and will be released to no One unless otherwise specified hy you.

Name:

Address:

City: State: Phone:

What is your age?

Gender : O Male 0 Female

Do you have children? O /es 0 No

How many? How old are they?

Are you or your spouse pregnant? O Yes 0 No

How did you learn about the parenting fair? (Check all that apply)

O Newspaper 0 Church 0 Radio Work O Poster/flyer 0 Friend O School 0 Other Li TV

Would you like to receive information from professional organizations represented at this fair? (Answering "yes" means that they will be provided with all information on this form.) O Yes LINo

9 Sample news release. Type your own, double-spaced releases similar to this one and send them to newspapers. Sample program schedule

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PROGRAM SCHEDULE KIWANIS CLUB OF HILLVIL LE CONTACT NAME BILL HILL for TELEPHONE 822-1544 The Kiwanis Club of Stratford's PARENTING FAIR KIWANIS PARENTING FAIR FILLS GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE Saturday, May 8, 1993 Lccal child care professionals and satety experts will converge on Stratford Heights High School Hilly! Ile High School on Saturday. April 10. 1993. from 9 00 a m to 5 00 p m . to instruct parents on the art of rasing children at the 9-00 Keynote Address--Dr Frank Quackenbush Hiliville Kiwanis Parenting Fair 10:00 LecturePoison Prevention Parents with little or no expenence raising children, and parents with children entenng new stages of development, will receive expert Speaker. Joseph Nietzsche. Poison Control Center advice from speakers representing such organizations as the Hill 11 00 LectureDiscipline County Child Safety Commission, the State Department of Health. Speaker Dr Linda Dostoyevsky, Child Psychological Services the Deenng Child Development Research Center. and the Hillville 12 00 Lecture--- Health and Nutrition Coalition for Quality Child Care covenng topics such as poison SpeakerDr David Chekhov. Brayton University preventon, health and fitness for children. early education, and prenatal nutrition More importantly, parents will team about agencies 1 00 Lunch break and organizations they can turn to for help 2 00 Lecture- -Early Influences on Children 'The parenting fair will give parents an opportundy to gain new Speaker Wanda Wittgenstein. Family Counselino Center insights into raising children" said Kiwanis committee chairman Bill Hill"Parents face overwhelming challenges today The Kiwanis 3 00 LectureSingle Parenting Parenting Fair will be an invaluable source of information toi them Speaker Donna Reed. County Social Services After the fair. the Hillville Kiwanis Club, along wrth the Hillville High 4 00 LectureChild Safety School Key Club. will sponsor a fish fry starting at 5 00 p m Parents Speaker Chris Dufresne. Coalition to Prevent Child Intury who attend seminars at the fair will receive tokens they can exchange 5 00 Lecture --Choosing and Affording Child Care tor a meal A home entertainment center door prize drawing and a SpeakerDanielle Spinoza. Child Care Reform Network pertormance by the Knitpickers bluegrass band will cap the days events at 6.00 p m 6 00 Music Backstreet Blues Band performing Volunteer help from the Hill-n-Dale Child Care Center will allow Kiwanis Club of Stratford Fish Fry--Price per meal $3 00. parents to leave their children in child care Mille they attend seminars Located in school parking lot and browse more than 30 exhibit booths The event is also sponsored ir part by Three.Ply Department Stores All lectures will be held in the auditorium. Wally s Supermarkets. and Five-and-Under Clothing Stores Printing for this program provided by KwikKopy.

PARENTS, DO YOUR CHILD A FAVOR' Child Care Registration

.1,1 I. ni,.,,,n ,ua 1,rniI Inc information .oked Ion DON'T MISS THE , ,t.i pr,.tt11 I; and mn,ii n1 rn, reIcaccst

KIWANIS PARENTING FAIR nanre lour arkIrc... 9:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M. `Oqo phone SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1993 AT INDIAN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL I lor, nfl,nii, luidien arc >Cu leal Int! in ,luld care ' Child . ri,unie This is your chance to: \ flair ,oIot

Hear lectures about parenting ( Get free advice from professionals I no color Ilan color Talk to other parents ( hilt!, se .0101 I fur color Win a valuable door prize

FREE CHILD CARE PROVIDED BY TINY TOT 'NW:1.0111C CHILD-CARE CENTER

DON'T MISS THI6 OPPOR TUNITY TO LEARN AND HAVE FUN! I. Fins voRi toy! olifEcull.n.c. %RE l'11(11 IDERIA \ 01' PICK ( 1'1 ( )1 It CHILDREN, DO NO1 DIS('ARD. SPONSORED BY:

GOUDY ENTERPRISES THOMPSON ELECTRIC .01011 111111)in:r SOMERSET SUPERMARKET PARKVILLE HOTEL 3-Rs DEPARTMENT STORE BAUHAUS CONSTRUCTION \ THE KIWANIS CLUB OF GRANDVILLE

Sample poster/flyer Sample child care registration form

10 54 BEST CM MAL,,,,L: Sample radio scripts SCRIPT kl (45 seconds)

Parents Would you like a free office call to a pediatrician? How about a whole day of free child Carey Sound too good to be true'?

It isn't if you attend the Kiwanis Parenting Fair at Washington High School Saturday November 8It's an event designed especially for parents You'll receive professional advice on raising children to make it less stressful for you and your kids You II also find out where to go wnen you need a helping hand raising your children

It doesn't cost a pennyIn fact. yoL'll receive a free meal Plus you can win a valuable door pnze KinderCare Kid Care Centu: will watch your children all day

Don't forget The Kiwanis Parenting Fair. Washington High School, Saturday. November 8, from 9.00 a m to 5 00 p m The Kiwanis Parenting Fair is sponsored by Fred and Ed's Ice Cream. Kid Time Shoes and Moore Pharmacy

SCRIPT #2 (30 seconds)

Children don't come with an instruction manual Any parent can tell you thatParenting is a tough jobProbably the toughest you II ever have But !he Kiwanis Club of Lake Forest Heights's parenting fair mn help you

The Kiwanis Parenting Fair is an all-day event with exhibits and free seminars You car also find out about professionals in Lake Forest Heights who help parents handle situations with their kids

The Kiwanis Parenting Fair will be held at Fairview High School or Saturday March 13 1993. from 9 00 a m to 5 00 o rnChild Watch Child Care Center witi provide child cafe for all parents attending seminars Don t miss outParenting s a tough lob bot you can make it easier

Ma, 10 1994 Mr Many Heidegger Manager Westgate Depetrner-t Store 1435 indiscernible Avenue :f.allipso California 23423

Der Mr Heidegger

The Kiwarks Club of San Andreas s soonsccng a Parenting Pa,r- pmote c^,id nea r" safety an..1 development& eckcatioh 0 Or comm,pity The fa r be nem Sarvroay October 18 1994. from 9 00 a rn to 6 00 m at the San Pacillion High School

The purpOSe ol this far sb Put parents in conlactw-th parenting experts . g-)e them advice oh raisrig their crvidre^ ir hearthy sale environments

But mat u only the first owl

There is a second eo,ral'y imporm-il aspect These profess-era's -mil oe mcommendng Sample letter to a school superintendent hii,ducts trial parents can Purchase to heic, :cern ia,se chi'den and Ice parents 'leo to fia where to purchase them That S where you come -n

We are inv4ing a few Community OxistrieiSes Is set uo Pooths displarg ct 'ea.tri and safety prod..icts that parCints may purchase at yOu' store We would :Ace your partir ,sation !no As a Istismess SPoilsor, you are encou'aged to gve demonstrations of products Such as car seats. chilproof containers eduCatiOnal vdeos or toOks, and other relevant products and to hand out Ilerature relating to themDisplays and banners are also encouraged

AS' a service to our comrnoity pteai,e work with us lc nelp educate parentsProfession& advice is worth much more if parents know where to go to put mat advice into action TO neip our ciub meet the costs of the fair we are asking each parlicpating busness to Cortnbute $50 for printing the programs or to give an in.kind donation 'or a door vine Westgate Department SIO,le cv pe recognized verbaily and on prrited programs

We 100x forward 10 you, part,Cipatori in this cornmunty.wide evemI wit may you cc May 15 to answer any giestions you migrit ha voIf yua would prefer to speak with me Sooner, please call me at 555 3556

S,rCerely

Al Camus Parenting Fa., Criaih-Srl Sample letter to a business sponsor

1 1 5 REST Cia f9 Sample solicitation of a business sponsor

February 12 1994 Berl Russell kl 0 . Director Center for Prenatal Study Stale University 3455 West New York Tacoa, GA 78633

Dear Dr 7iussell

Do you believe most parents are prepared lc raise children'? Are most informed about prenatal care infant health early development safety nutrition and hundreds of other faders necessary for a child to be healthy and happy"? The Kiwanis Club of Tacoa doesn't think so. Dr Russell. and we'd like to do something about 1 We want to hold a parenting fair, where parents can receive information about raisrig childrenBut we need your nelp Firstlet me introduce our organization The Kmanis Club of Tacoa is a local group of Kiwanis International an organization of 350 000 men and women dedicated to community service and in particular. to the well-being of children The parenting fair sucports Kiwanis International s dynamic program Young Childrei; Priority One which addresses Me needs of children ages prenatal through 'ive The parentng nas three goalsTo introduce parents to resources in the community. to offer professional advice about parenting and child development, and to nroc ge an opportunity tor parents in the community to interact This .5 why we need your help Dr Russellthe members of the Tacoa Kiwanis c...10 believe that to achieve these goals. prolessiunais rnust be involved in the planning process to decide what topics to address and to involve others in Tacoa s professional community The club plans to handle all logistics of the fair, but we need your help 10 April III, Pio: develop the content Ms Melinda Corso. Director Please consider pining us for a planning meeting in two weeks al the Park Inn Aleutian Child Development Center Hotel We Will be inviting other professionals from a vanety of fields and we would be West Ston> Ro.er e grateful if you could attend. tooI will call yon on February 1910 dsCuss your possible Lek. Alaska 47156 involvementII you d like to talk sooner reel free tu phone me at 555-7699

DearIs Corso Sincerely

Dr ifiri I ke if he \ !coital Child \iI iijc t G..11111011 reionunended Jane Leibnit .0 to the !imams (lob ot I ek as speaker atui upcoming iarenting lii Parenting Fair Chairwoman We %%ere delighted V. hen DI"I 1,cke reported that iii agiced to speak A me parenting tall'I'd 11kt. 10 glie01.1 a ten details 111 liott Unties v.111 lv. si heduled ilurinthe parenting lair, and about hoiiiii I it into me lure Sample invitation to a professional rhe parenting lair n ill he held at Lek High Si hinn. 2 200 list Street in Saturdas. ,eptenther I 1 Irom 91)0 a in until s tut p iiiI he se been rev 0111111cIlded i.spi.k about is Stimulating Earl) elopment." ou le k-en scheduled to speak at 2:00 p.m in Room 33f, Iota lecture should last about lminutes. tollimed In a question and ans,ei perind of I", 10 ill minutesPledsc vill me it !.ou plan to hong audiovisual material, The sv hoot ut11 pro\ tile AV equipment1, DrI ke mennowd ou our organuanon should set up a booth tor the entiretyil the lair. so !ha: P.rients van reveie literature and outwit information lust a reminderI he parenting lair is Intended to pro, nly parents paincularlt inewelienied parent..vial) ialuahle inhumation about raising then children, and to mtroduie them to resonive, that van help them latei 0 Please remember to 10k.us yummmt lei ture 011111e1110d- nut ideas that parents an Program Development Department take hinny and appb. SI, Corso, tie beheie this eient n ill he a great ,u,..e55. and ne're evited Kiwanis International that .iiiire panh.ipati ngThank !on, tin- getting insolied 3636 Woodview Trace ,u Ilase atiy quesnons. plea,e vail ine at C`5 Klin"I look torn ard ll01"1.. mg nub yimUflhy. proted Indianapolis, IN 4626X-3196 USA

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Lifetime Kiwanis member Al Telethon's beginning in 1982, Kiwanis Schrider and his daughter, Kiwanian The Need has donated $9 million and the Trish Oliphant, believe in children's donation continues to increase hospitals and the Children's Miracle Children do not react to injuries annually. Network Telethon. When and illness the same way adults do, Last year, Kiwanians donated nearly grandson/nephew Trevor was either physically or emotionally. And $1.78 million to children's hospitals diagnosed with leukemia at age 2, life they require special equipment through the Telethon and this year, an didn't hold many promises for their designed to fit their tiny bodies ambitious $2 million goal has been set family. equipment that ordinary hospitals by International President Art Luckily, Trevor's parents took him usually do not have. Swanberg and International Chairman to Children's National Medical Center That's why children's hospitals Joe Marshall. They urge clubs to in Washington, DC, where he was exist. They specialize in pediatric continue their commitment to the given a bone marrow transplant using medicine, and their equipment and community and its children by bone marrow donated by his older staff cater to the specific needs of supporting local Telethon hospitals. brother. His parents, who agonized young children. Unfortunately, costs with Trevor through every test, every involved with the quality care given at children's hospitalswell-trained The next Children's Miracle medical procedure, and every Network Telethon will be held traumatic day and night, never left his staff, advanced equipment, research, bedside. Encouraged by the caring and intricate treatmentare enormous. June 4-5, 1994. staff at the hospital, they never gave up In order to maintain this quality care, children's hospitals depend upon hope. By sponsoring the Telethon, Kiwanis donations from the communities they And for good reason. Today, Trevor keeps company wita organizations serve. is a happy, healthy child. Because of such ar wal-Mart, Re/Max, Amoco, the people at Children's National and Dan y Queen. Kiwanis, however, Medical Center, Grandpa Al and Aunt is different because it is the only Trish can still lovingly spoil the young volunteer service organization of its child that means so much to them. In The Role kind serving as a national sponsor. the words of Aunt Trish, "The whole of Kiwanis Besides nursing young children experience at Children's was back to good health, Telethon hospitals wonderful. We still have Trevor Throughout the years. Kiwanis often serve as the nucleus of thanks to them." International has made children community programs involving happier and healthier, and millions of maternal and infant health, parent kids have been able to enjoy better education and support, and safety and lies as a result. One of the vkays Kiwanis helpsby being a contributor to the Children's Miracle Network Telethon. In fact, since the

87 pediatric trauma. For these reasons, Birth defects and infant mortality Also under the "Miracle Maker" club participation in the Telethon prevention foundations contest, a plaque is awarded to the qualifies as an official Young Children: winning member and a certificate and Priority One project. Hospitals with a strong pediatric banner patch will be awarded to his or focus her club. Thirty-one certificatesone Pediatric research foundations per districtare awarded to runner-up clubs for their efforts. Three special The Telethon On the average, Telethon hospitals Telethon banner patches per district are awarded to outstanding clubs for use 43 percent of their Telethon funds Founded by the Osmond Foundation, their participation. the Children's Miracle Network for new equipment and expansion, 34 percent for patient services, 12 percent Nomination forms for the "Miracle supports children's hospitals through Maker" contest will be sent to all club for health education programs, and 11 its annual telethon. Hundreds of secretaries in May. millions of dollars have been raised for percent for research. 166 children's hospitals throughout the These hospitals treat five million children suffering from various types United States, Canada, and New Banner Patches Zealand. of afflictions each year. Examples Clubs participating in the Telethon It's unique because the funds raised include pediatric trauma, accidental may qualify to receive Young locally go directly to the local injury, cancer, heart and muscular Children: Priority One banner patches. children's hospital. Funds are reported diseases, birth defects, cerebral palsy, Contact your lieutenant governor or to the Children's Miracle Network and AIDS. They pride themselves on district Young Children chairman for national office by the participating treating the whole child and rendering more information. Telethon hospital so that a grand total service based on need, not the ability Some districts and hospitals give can be figured for the Telethon to pay. Telethon banner patches to partici- broadcast. Even funds raised during Please note that not all children's pating clubs. Ask your district the Telethon broadcast stay in the hospitals are Children's Miracle Telethon chairman and hospital hospital serving your community. Network Telethon hospitals. You can Telethon Coordinator about Telethon The national Telethon broadcast, its consult with your district Telethon banner patches. production, and day-to-day operating chairman or the Kiwanis International costs for the Children's Miracle Office to find out which Telethon Network are paid for by corporate hospital serves your community. underwriters, the Osmond Foundation, and hospital membership fees. No Supporting the funds donated locally are sent to the Hospital national office for any such purpose. Awards for If your club is interested in Participation supporting your local Telethon hospital, here are some steps you Miracle Maker Cortest should take before implementing Telethon The Osmond Foundation sponsors fund-raising projects. Hospitals the "Miracle Maker" contest, which awards a trip to Disneyland to one 1. Consult with your district Telethon Not every community has a outstanding Kiwanis supporter of the chairman. Ask him or her about children's hospital, but every Telethon. That trip includes round-trip previous district support of the community is served by one. Though airfare and hotel accommodations for Telethon, and find out which Telethon most participating hospitals concen- one club member to attend the hospital your club supports. Obtain trate on treating children, some offer following year's Telethon broadcast in the name and phone number of a other services as well. In addition to Anaheim, California. Free tickets to contact person (Telethon Coordinator) children's hospitals, Telethon hospitals Disneyland are included for the from that hospital. See if any district might include: Telethon broadcast dates. The winning projects are being encouraged. Ask Kiwanian will appear on national about banner patches and other awards. television with the International President or an International Board representative.

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2 2. Consult with your hospital's Telethon 2. Raise "seed" quarters. Begin this 6. Conduct the MMQ. Coordinator Ask him or her to speak stage at least 6 months prior to the Convert the money your club has at a club meeting. During the meeting, MMQ. The earlier ,,ou do this, the raised into quarters. ask questions about the hospital, its more money you will raise. Lay your mile of quarters out in services, and how your potential Ask club members to pick an unusual pattern. This will not donations will be used. Ask how quarters from loose change each only save space, but attract many children from your area are day and bring them to each attention. Miles that wind around treated annually at the hospital. weekly meetir... Arrange for a club tour of the hospital corners, up and down stairs, or take unusual twists are big if possible. Persuade local businesses to allow you to clean coins out their attention-getters. fountains or wishing wells 3. Talk to your lieutenant governor Use double-sided stick tape to lay Provide them with an engraved (optional). See if division-wide out your pattern. projects are possible. Inform him or plaque that says "Donations her that you are considering benefit (hospital name)." Provide entertainment. participation in the Telethon and ask Place coin cannisters in local Ask passers-by to donate to your about Young Children: Priority One businesses. Make your own MMQ. Besure to explain that banner patches and other possible cannister and poster or order one donations benefit the local awards. from Children's Miracle Network, children's hospital. 801/278-8900. 4. Obtain approval from your clubis board. Discuss the Telethon with your Plan one or two special club's board of directors before "mini-mile" fund-raising MMQs Duck Races implementing a fund-raising project in in a local shopping center. Clubs in communities with a canal, supp( (rt of your Telethon hospital. river, or other waterway might stage a 3. Arrange for entertainment in rubber duck race. For five dollars, 5. Form a Telethon committee. Select conjunction with your MMQ Kiwanians can sell "adopted rubber a club chairman to communicate will, (optional). By providing enter- ducks" which have numbers on the the Telethon Coordinator and district tainment, you will draw a larger crowd bottom. These adopted ducks are Telethon chairman on a regular basis. and create a more c-stive atmosphere. dumped into a waterway and float Choose a fund-raising project that will toward a "finish line." The person meet the needs of your club. Carefully 4. Persuade local merchants to help whose duck crosses the finish line first plan and execute that project. sponsor theMMQ(optional) and its wins. Second, third, and fourth-place accompanying activities. If you're finishers are also awarded prizes. using a shopping mall, this should be Duck races are perfect division-wide 1111111111111111111ill easy since it will draw more business projects because they require consider- for the potential sponsors. able start-up costs for prizes, equip- Fund-Raising ment, and entertainment, and many Projects 5. Publicize the big event one month service hours to sell ducks, select a in advance. location, purchase prizes, and promote Miracle Mile of Quarters Obtain media publicity from local the event. Fortunately, the return is Kiwanis clubs currently raise television and radio stations and worth the investment. Duck races are thousands of dollars for the Telethon newspapers. usually a big success, sometimes by holding "Miracle Mile of Quarters" netting more than $300,000 for the (MMQ) events. Typically, MMQs are Distribute posters and flyers. sponsoring club(s) involved! centered around a well-trafficked place or event. Kiwanians lay quarters out, side by side, until they reach a mile (63,360 quarters). This mile translates to $15,840 tor kids at the hospital.

Steps involved include: I . Select a date and location. A busy mall, shopping plaza, children's fair, or any other heavily populated location or event is appropriate. S9 3 To hold a duck race, clubs should If your clubs sell at least 60 coupon Steps involved include: consult with The Great American ads, you're well on your way to money I. Arrange participation and select an Duck Race. This organization rents the for your hospital. event date with the local sports team. ducks to clubs and provides guidelines Determine whether prize squares will for holding a successful event. For 2.Take your proposed booklet to be drawn, taped, or chalked and who more information, contact: several local printers and determine will create them on the playing field or The Great American Duck Race which one will print the coupon court. 3200 Camelback Road, Suite 229A booklet at the lowest cost. Cost of Phoenix, Arizona 85018 typesetting and printing should be 2. Secure prizes from local merchants. Phone: 6021957-3825 covered by the sale of 60 ads ($6,000). Consider the size of the sporting event Ask to see a "silver" or "blue-line" and the potential sales when selecting prior to printing. Proofread this copy the grand prize and smaller prizes (if Coupon Book Sales before allowing the printer to continue it's a professional team, a car might be Coupon book sales work best as a with the printing process. Have each appropriate; for a high school team, a multi-club or division effort. How- business approve its coupon. Keep in color television might be an adequate ever, it means little work and lots of mind your club will pay for each prize). profit for clubs involved. Sales like "silver" or "blue-line" requested, so the one outlined below have the make only necessary changes and 3. Print entry forms. Include rules, potential of raising $40,000 or more. proof it well the first time. Have at the date, and so forth on the form. One least 15,000 books printed. key instruction will be for participants Steps involved include: For the booklet cover, be sure to to keep their form. They will use it to Ia.Hire a professional advertiser to sell include the Kiwanis clubs involved, create their airplane at the event. Set at least 60 coupon ads for $100 each. the benefiting hospital, how many up your own guidelines regarding OR dollars worth of coupons are in the cutting and folding airplanes. lb. Select 100 businesses in your booklet, and the booklet price ($3 is a community, divide them amongst club fair amount). See the sample on the 4. Publicize your event. Use your members, and have members sell back of this service bulletin. local radio and television stations and coupon ads to these businesses for newspapers. Have posters printed or $100 each. Point out to these 3.Have club members sell booklets for made and place them in local schools, businesses that the coupons will bring $3.00 each to their friends, associates, businesses, and so forth. about enormous opportunities for their and families. If you sell all 15,000 business. Create a form that will ask booklets at this cost, a $45,000 profit 5. Sell entry forms prior to and during businesses to type exactly what they is possible. the sporting event. Hold the event want their ad to say and give them a during half-time, or between the final receipt. In addition to the typed ad, periods, quarters, or innings of your collect logo slicks (black and white Airplane Toss for Kids sporting event. work best) from each business for the This event should be tied-in with a printer to use in creating the coupon local sports team, professional, booklet. college, high school, or even amateur Miracle Balloon Sales Businesses to consider arc local league. Participants purchase paper "Miracle Balloon" sales are a great restaurants, movie theaters, airplanes to toss onto a playing field way to boost your current Telethon supermarkets, sports or exercise with the opportunity to win prizes by support. Individual club members do facilities, jewelry stores, florists, landing their plane in a "prize square." this project in their places of business. salons, and other merchants. The official entry form (which is also Coupon ideas might include a set the official paper airplane for the Steps involved include:

dollar amount off services or event) should be sold both prior to and I. Contact your Telethon Coordinator. admissions, "buy one get one free" throuchout the sporting event. See if you can obtain "Miracle deals, percentages off purchases, free Balloons" from him or her. If not, trial memberships, free jewelry order them from the Children's cleaning, and so forth. Miracle Network, 801/278-8900. See the sample "Miracle Balloon" on page 6 of this bulletin.

9 0 4 2. Have participating club members Kiwanis clubs are not involved in Sports Events: give balloons, along with 5 or 6 felt-tip planning, selecting sites, reserving golf tournaments, 10K runs, triathalon, markers and some adhesive tape (or locations and entertainment, and old timer's baseball, softball push-pins), to the receptionist, hostess, so forth. All the preliminary tournaments. or some other person who greets the arrangements are made by IOF public in his or her place of business. Foresters members. A-thons: Instruct that person to sell the balloons ski-a-thon, rock-a-thon, bake-a-thon at $1 each to patrons and employees. Kiwanis clubs need only to obtain (in conjunction with a bake sale), Purchasers should write their name on pledges, attend and participate in swim-a-thon, bike-a-thon, the balloon and tape or pin them to a the bowl-a-then, and collect their walk-a-thon, dance-a-thon, designated wall or area in the business. money. phone-a-thon (contact your Telethon Coordinator to see if the hospital holds Kiwanis clubs will receive local one prior to the Telethon), doodle-thon. 3.Have club members buy a few and national credit for their balloons themselves to show their contributions raised during the Social Events: support. If club members aren't events. willing to buy, employees and patrons pancake breakfast, spaghetti dinner, won't be likely to purchase, either. Kiwanians are eligible to win fish fry, bridge tournament, bingo. prizes ranging from certificates to a trip to Disneyland. Entertainment Events: IOF Foresters carnival, fair, talent show. "Family Fun Days" To find out about local IOF Foresters Theme Parties: Kiwanis clubs have been invited to "Family Fun Days" events, call the Children's Miracle Network toll-free treasure hunt, road rally, casino night. participate in another national Telethon "Bowling for Miracles" hotline at sponsor's efforts to raise money for 800/258-4266. Sales/Auctions: hospitals. The Independent Order of silent or live auction, raffle, bake sale, Foresters (IOF Foresters), a non-profit candy sale, holiday sale (Christmas fraternal benefit society, conducts cards, carnations for Valentine's Day), "Bowling for Miracles" events on their Other events car wash, rummage sale, flea market, "Family Fun Days" in February and Try designing your own event. craft sale. March. Essentially, "Bowling for To make the profits higher, challenge Miracles" events are a bowl-a-thons other Kiwanis clubs in your division to match or beat your efforts by partici- Contests: that take place in various places scavenger hunt, square dance, chili throughout North America. They are pating in one of the followinu: cook-off. great K-Family projects. Club participation in this event is perfect for clubs that wish to boost their current telethon support or that have never participated in the Telethon because:

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5 Sample "Miracle Balloon" Check with your local hospital to see if it provides these or order a sup, :y from the Children's Miracle Network, gOl/278-89(X). Children's Miracle Network Logos Use these logos when promoting your fund-raising event.

Childretis Childrais Chilcireris Miracle Network Miracle Network Miracle Network Telethon- Telethon Telethon lt's Working Wonders. It's Working Wonders. It's Working Wonders.

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Young Chikiren Young Children Young Children ChiUren Young Children bung Children PROR11Y ONE PRIORITY ONE PRIORITY ONE PRIORITy ONE PRIORITYONE PRIORITY ONE Sample Cover for Coupon Book Include the Kiwanis clubs involved, the benefiting hospital, how many dollars worth of coupons are in the booklet, and the booklet price.

Kiwanis Clubs of Flint and Burton ONLY Coupon Book $3 00 Over $750 worth of valuable coupons from local businesses.

Proceeds to benefit Chikireris Hurley Medical Center Miracle Network Telethoir Wxkirg Wonders.

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Program Development Department Kiwanis International 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196

Worldwide: (317) 875-8755 North America: (800) KIWANIS Fax: (317) 879-0204 9A)

8 9 4 PO #1 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Smoke = AL Mector Safety

Because children', skin is thinner will Unprose the education effOrt and than that of adults, they hurn more credibility that will help get teams The Danger of easily and suffer ses ere burns at lower into houses to check or install smoke Residential Fires temperatures. This makes children detectors. The fire department ma\ the most likel victims of what many have additional sources of educational The piercing ring of the smoke medical experts cohsider to be the materials, and the fire station can detector awakens sou in the middle of most devastating injury a huinan serve as the focus for organi/ing the the night.It is darker than y ou expect, being can sustain and survive. Ex- campaign and des eloping publicity. and something NMI', \ our e\es. cruciating pain can last for days or In addition, contact your State or There's a fire in your house Fs en as kx eeks, and the phy sical and Local SAFE KIDS Coalition to you w ake your spouse. y ou reali/e psychological scars may last a collaborate w ith Project GET ou must reach the children .... lifetime. ALARMED activities. Call the Cam- It can happen to any famil y. and According to statistics, the lower paign National Field Office at (202) results in tragedy more often than y the socioeconomic status of a family. 939-4993 for the name and telephone might reali/e. A fire can spread the more likely the family w ill face a Illinther of the nearest coalition coor- through a house in minutes. Rooms fire in its home. Burned children are dinator. heat up to their "flash point" and ex- also more likely to be from single- plode into flames. The smoke is parent families or to be one of several black, dense, and often poisonous; the children in the home. Public Education heat can he far hotter than \ our men's Most pe(ple don't understand w hat a lughest temperature setting. Club Involvement fire in the home is like. Al a result. That is .0, irsmoke detectors are so they fail to prepare their children for impmtant. The chances of dy ing in a A club can help ptepare families for the emergency, and they themselves hIllVse fire ar2 cut in half IA hen a work the danger of fire hv ccmducting a are likely to respond inappropriately. Its IBS \ Illoke detector is present. community edUciltiOn campaign. putting their family in peril. The early \laming pros ides your famil installing smoke detectors, and replac- brochures titled "FireA Familx with enough nine to escape to satCty. ing the batteries in smoke detectors. Killer- and "Protect Your Children- Ex ems home should has e at least one Any one of these activities would he on pages 7 and 9 of this bulletin are and probably se\ cral. helpful, hut all three are needed. designed for your club to print and dis- One of the leading causes of death A club that embarks on any of these trihute throughout the community. among children is fire in the home. In priijects should begin by contacting They describe a residential fire and ex- fact, in nearly one-tourth of all states the ltu..d fire department or the union plain how to prepare for one. in the IS.. residential fires are the to which tli*fire fighters belong (after The brochures can he distributed at number one cause of death among obtaining appnisal from the cluh's supermarkets. drug stores, libraries, children. More than two-thirds of hoard of directors). These very community centers, schools, police those children are rise years old or natural alhes will have expertise that stations, and, of course, fire stations. ounger. Another approach would be to have the brochures printed in a local newspaper or included with advertising circulars that are distributed to all homes in the community.

9 5 1 A more comprehensive education Once the scope of the project. with campaign could insolve the purchase cost and personnel estimates, has been of materials from the National SAFE Battery-Check approved by the club's board of direc- KIDS Campaign1". a national Service tors, the committee can begin childhood safety organi/ation of recruiting its "business partners- for which Kiwanis International is a mem- Announcing in the local media that the project. The first partners should ber. The National SAFE KIDS the club will check smoke detectors he the fire department or fire fighters Campaign has des eloped a ten-minute on request allows the club to serve an union. The participation of the tire "Project GET ALARMED- entire community. Service is given fighters in the battery checks will audiovisual program which explains only to those who request it. and it can open doors that might otherwise the importance of having 1.4orking be scheduled when cons enient. If the remain closed. Additional volunteer smoke detectors and a practicedes- club has a large number of hatteries support can then he solicited from cape plan. A companion brochure is and V orkers. the public service another clubs and organiiations. for sale in sets of WO. An order form nouncement can run once a week until The second partner is a newspaper. for these materials and a guide for a the supplies are exhausted hs re- radio station, or television station will- residential fire detect: in program ap- quests. If resources arc limited, these ing to announce the hatters -check pears on page 11. To learn more limits can be explained in the an- service. Kissanis clubs can also ask ahout the National SAFE KIDS Cam- nounceinent. utilits companies, 'IV weather paign Vrite to the address on the order To begin this project. the chairman reporters, iitid others to remind people form or call (202) 939-4993. should develop some estimate of to test their detectors and change bat- A variets of fire safety publications either the number of requests the club teries. A sample prhu public service is available from the Resource Center inight receive or the resources the announcement and an example of a of the National Volunteer Fire ('oun- club can devote to the project. A con- radio/TV script appear on pages 4 and cil. 1325 Pennss Ivanta Avemie, sers ative approach would he to look 6. The final partner is a store that ss ill Suite 5(10. Washington. D.C.. 20(X)4. at the support given to other recent pros ide the batteries for free or at a Write or call (301) 621-7191 kir a free new projects and calculate what could significant discount. This can be a catalog. he accomplished with the same level hardware store, discount house, super-

4111111MIIIIM of support. assuming each nme-solt market. pharmacy. or any other hatters costs three dollars. and each merchant that sells a high volume of Replacing hatters check svill take half an hour batteries. Mahufacturers of hatteries Batteries (for tras el, checking the hatters., and are also excellent potential partners. replacing it I.Look at sour club's As the committee receives letters or The National SAFE KIDS Cam- recent history and test the level of in- phone calls requesting help, it should paign estimates that 80 percent of all terest in the project to develop sour set up assigmnents for one or two homes in the United States have own estimate. people to visit several houses. A snuike detectors. lInfortunatels. onls A more ambitious approach would sample assignment sheet appears on two-thirds of those homes are he to estimate the total number of re- page 5. The team should call ahead to protected bs their smoke detectors be- quests that would result if the adver- arrange times for its visits. Each team cause the rest of them don't work. tisement ran continuously for mans will need assorted sums of batteries, a The International Association of Fire vs eeks or months. Assume that 5 per- ladder, flashlight, copies of fire safety Chiefs is even more pessimistic.It es- cent of the "audience" will respond bs, literature to give to each family (see timates that half of all smoke asking fOr a battery check. Now. fig- the ready-to-print brochures on pages detectors has e dead or disconnected ure out how mans people giving four 7 and 9), and release from liability batteries. or five hours of their time would he forms (sample on page 12). A There are three ways to address this needed to complete all these battery screwdriver, a few screws. and a pair problem. The club can offer to checks. This will probably require of pliers may prove helpful if a smoke replace the smoke detector batters fin- recruitment of additional workers for detector pros-es difficult to open or is anyone who requests it. Second. the the projectperhaps going to other poorly secured. club can send out teams to cans ass Kiwanis clubs, Circle K. Key Clubs. When teams visit their assigned neighborhoods. offering to check the Builders Clubs, or other organi/a- homes, they should complete the as- hatters' in each home's smoke detec- tions. signment sheet and return it to the tor. Or, third, the club can develop a committee. rhi.s w...ill a..nwII the Coln- list of likely candidates (loss-income mittee to calculate the total effect of families with young children) for as- the project, follow-up on loose ends, sistance and target its efforts to those and set up a list of families who families. should be contacted in the future about replacing batteries.

2 Q6 The business partners for this effort Create short lists of a few families are the fire department or fire fighters that are geographically close and give Canvassing a union, a store that sells batteries, and a each list to a team, along with a blank Neighborhood local printer. The printer is needed for index card for each contact and a a flyer (sample on page 4) that can be script for the telephone call, like the Another approach to replacing bat- delivered to each house a week before one below: teries in smoke detectors is to select a the canvass, explaining what the club neighhorhood that seems to need this and fire fighters arc doing and urging -This is Robert Baillergeon from the ser ice and conduct a door-to-door them to be at home during the canvass. Kiwanis Club of Freeport. My club. campaign. The fire department can The committee can give each team along with the Freeport Fire Depart- prohahly recommend several neigh- a list of addresses to visit, with space ment, is replacing batteries in smoke borhoods that have sustained a high for the team to write what happened at detectors and installing smoke detec- numher of home fires. People who each address. Teams should he corn tors where they are needed. This is a wouldn't notice or respond to an ad- p--..ed of a fire fighter and a Kiwanian, free service. We're doing this be- vertisement might receive help this and it will help if the fire fighters cause YO% of child fire deaths occur way, and more children who are at wear their uniforms. At the end of the in homes without working smoke risk w ill probably be protected. This day, each team should hand in its list detectors. Would you like to par- approach also makes it possible to so that the committee can total up the ticipate in our safety check pro- identify homes that need smoke detec- number of' families the project helped gram? We'll be visiting homes tors. which could be installed at a later and note addresses that should be con- duringFire Prevention Week Oc- date. The drawback to this method is tacted again later. tober 6th through the 12th. Would that a limited number of houses can ZI111111111 you prefer that I send you a he canvassed. Thus, the club may brochure first, or would you like to want to consider doing this project in Targeting Needy schedule an appointment now? coMunction with the smoke detector Families Now'? All right. battery-check project. In any case, the What day would be convenient for neighborhood to he canvassed should A third approach to this project is to you'? What time of day would he be carefully chosen. consult the human services depart- more convenient: morning. after- To begin a canvassing project. the ment or other agencies (such as noon, or evening'? Morning would committee should work with the fire weatherization agencies. WIC or he better'? Okay. We can't guaran- department to identify a neighborhood AFDC) that help needy families. The tee a specific time, but we'll be that needs this project and count the club then contacts all the recom- there that morning. number of homes to he visited (count- mended families and offers to make a Now. I'd like to confirm your ad- ing each apar tient as a !untie). As- fire safety check. This approach al- dress. And can you give me any sume that each team will canvass six low s the club to schedule all the other information that will make it homes per hour. then decide how appointments and more efficiently use easier to find your home/building? inany hours each team will work. members' time. My number is 864-2157. Please Dix ide these numbers into the number Secure approval of the cluh's board call me if you discover you won't bc of homes to he visited to discover how of directors before contacting the home for your appointment. You many teams are needed. Assume that human services department. Informal- can also call Fire Chief Dan Barnett one-halt of the homes will need new ly survey the club to find out how at 864-2722. In the meantime. I'll batteries for their smoke detectors. many will participate in the project. go ahead and send you a safety With these estimates, the project can Also, recruit business partners for the brochure along with a confirmation be presented to the club's board of project, discussing with the stores inof our appointment. directors for approval. volved how many families should be Do you have any questions'? Well assisted. With these parameters in then, I'll see you a week from Satur- mind, contact agencies that help day." needy families and collect names, addresses. arul phone numbers. Organiz- The equipment needed for the visits ing this information will be easier on a was described in the previous section. computer. Once a team completes visits to the assigned families, the assignment sheet can he turned in, and updated information can be entered into the database for future reference.

97 3 A sainple news release and a public Publicity service announcement for the project Follow-Up appear on pages 4 and 6 of this bul- Puhlici/ing this project is important letin. These can he adapted for use h Batteries should he checked once for three reasons. First. the people in your club. In addition, a spokesperson each year, so the contacts made during the community need to he warned for your club can contact radio and the first year of this project will he the before strangers start calling them or television stations and urge then) to an- basis tOr the next year's project. knocking on their doors, offering to nounce the project. The tire depart- Share the inforniation you line col- check their smoke detectors. Second. ment makes an excellent backgRiund lected with local government officials the businesses supporting the pr(iject for publicity photos and anon health and safety so that they can deserve public recognition for their 1101111Cements. track what effect the project has on contrihutions. Finally. people should Aker the project is completed, fol- the level of safety ill the community. realiie that your club is responsible low up ss ith a news release that tells The club can also discuss with the for the entire project. how many families were helped and local fire department whether the again thank the businesses that community's smoke detector or- donated materials. dinance needs to he strengthened. Information on smoke detector Or- dinances is available from the National SAFE KIDS Campaign or the Kiwanis International Office.

Use flyers, ads, and press releases similar to the samples below and on page 6 to publicize the project. Teams should use the sample assignment sheet On the next page to keep track of their visits to homes.

Sample Print Public Service Anmaincement for Sample Pre-Canvass Flyer Newspapers

FIRE SAFETY DAY FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS NEXT SATURDAY!

We Want to Make You Safer! 'Free batteries smoke detectors. Free smoke detector\ tOr 25 families 1 working smoke detector cuts in half the chances of dying in a fire. Free (Allen Installation. That's why we're offering these FREE vices. We want to visit our -Fire truck al 9th SIred & Ntar)land. home to: Nteinher\ ol the l.ranklon Fire Department and the frankfort Sunnsers K iv. nis club \\lithe inour neighborhood on Saturda). October 12. from Check the battery in y our smoke detector. 9:00 a.m. to noon. Install a smoke detector if y ou don't has(' one. 'teams in red caps v, ill he knocking on doors and offering to in \tall nos batteries or nos smoke detectors. Please arrange to base soineone at home to Tell you how to sury ive u fire in your home. take ad \ antage of this tree 'ANA Ice. A tire truck \sill he parked at 9th and Mar, land to attract children to special educational activities from 11:00 a.m. to .5.:00 pan. Bring your children Members of the Kiwanis Club of Eynon and Fire Fighters l'ition Local atter )ou receive your new hatter). 203 will he making home visits October 6-12. If you would like to set up an appointment. call 595-42-30. Read the attached hrochure to learn inore about the importance of this tire satin) Mon. It ) tin has e additional (Iuestions. please call 555-3482 or 778- 2493 after 5:00 p.m.

Batteries and smoke detectors generously provided by: Please let us \ sit )our home to help protect )ou from fires. .Strachey's Hardware Edward I. :tither Company Corso Drugs Batteries gellerotiSt \ pros ided b) D Discount. Smoke detectors pros ided b) Homeland Lumber and the Frankfort Sunrisers Kivi anis club. All priining donated b) Quk-ki Printer

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5. NEWS FROM THE KIWANIS CLUB OF FLORENCi: FOR IMMIDIATE RELEASE Kiwanis Club of Florence Sample News Release for Newspapers Contact: John Guelph Phone: 555-9257 BATTERY GIVE-AWAY PROTECTS LIVES Some very odd couplesill he kiting three neighborhoods01 Florence next m.eek to help protect residents from fires. Fire fighters in full gear and members of the Ki anis Club of Florence ( all v. ear- ingellos shirts) w ill he tyoing door-to-door offering to replace batteries in smoke detect. :s for free. "Residential fires are the nmober one killer of children in this state.- esplains Kiwanis club presid.mt Beatrice Gibelline. "And studies has e shown that a working smoke detector in a home reduces the chances of death in a lire by half." That is ).s hy members of the tire depart mem and the Kiwanis club asked Circle Department Store to donate 200 batteries to this project. and os ner Joe Dante responded by donating ts ice that nu inber "I kmiSs a childho was once Ws erely burned," comment5 Dante. "and knoss fitm important this project is Teams of fire fighters and Kiss anians ss ill cans ass houses and apart- ments in the Paradise Hills area on Wednesday . October 9: in the area south of Paulo Boules ard on October 10: and the Francesca Com- mons neighborhood on Friday. October II. The teams s ill knock on doors froin 5:30 to 8:30 each night. and a fire truck v. ill patrol the area with lights flashing to alert residents. "It s ill be a hit uncomfOrtable doing this in fire gear. but it ss ill educate a lot of children." say s Fire Chief John A lighierie. Young NSTRUCTIONS children are sometimes scared of lire fighters, and this can hamper The folios\ ing two pages are brochures, ready rescue effOrts during a fire. The fire fighters hope to become friends to be printed. To use these masters: that children will go to during a tire. The Kiwanians and fire fighters hope to make this project an annual campaign to make sure es ery home in Florence has a v. orking smoke . Removethe staples in the gutter between the detector. pages.

2. Cut along the gutter fold.

3. Ilave the brochure printed, double-sided. SCRIPT NUMBER ONE (3(1 seconds) 4. Have the printed brochures folded like business letters (#10 letter fold), with the panels "Fire: Each y ear in this country ..200 children die in fires.NInety percent A Family Killer- on one and "Protect Your of these deaths occur in homes55it bout a ss orking smoke Children- on the other as ihe covers. detector ... and half the smoke detectors in homes need a new battery.

That's w hy the Kiv, anis Club of Lakeland and the I .akeland Fire Department s ill be checking neighborhoods October 6. 7. and9. At no charge. they ill replace batteries in all smoke detect,irs and will install detectors upon request.

Watch for the teams in y ellm sests in the Wy the, and Park neighborhoods.

SCRIPT NUMBER TWO ( 15 seconds)

A smoke detector can't protect y ou if it doesn't ssork. That's v. hy Johnson I lards are and the Ross% ell Kis anis club \ ill install a fret, battery in y our smoke detector. If ou would like a hat tei y or help Sample Radiorfelevision Script installing a smoke detector. call Johnson Ilan% are at 441-5522.

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Project GET ALARMED Materials Available from The National SAFE KIDS Campaign

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Project GET ALARMED Guide $50.00 A step-by-step guide to implementing a community-based residential fire detection program.

Pmject GET ALARMED VHS Video $50.00 A 10-minute show on residential fires emphasizing the importance of having working smoke detectors.

Project GET ALARMED Slide Presentation $1 25.00 The same 10-minute show in slide and audio cassette format.

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I understand and agree that the Kiw anis Cluh of is providing hurn injury prevention information and free smoke detectors as a public

sen ice in the intemst of encouraging safety and helping to prevent fires. I understand that Kiwanis Internatiomil. including its cluhs and districts. does not guarantee or endorse this brand of smoke detector.I also understand that Kiwanis International. including its clubs and districts, is not a I ler. manufacturer, or dealeri smoke detectors.

In exchange for accepting the free smoke detectors and the hurn injury prevention program. I agree not to make any claim or demand or to file any lawsuit against Kiw anis International. its clubs and districts. or any individual connected with Kiwanis International or this smoke detector project. for any injuries. damages. costs. or expenses claimed to have resulted from the smoke detector or the education program.

I further understand that tOr these smoke detectors to he effective. batteries \\ ill need to he replaced on a regular basis and they will need to be installed correctly.

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Program De\ elopment Departmei t Kisanis International 3636 Woods io. Trace Indianapolk. IN 46268

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12 110 PO #8 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE ediatric .0.10010 Tfauma

The greatest killer of children in in the same way, air pa sages are children. The staff at the Institute can des eloped nations is not a disease smaller and more easi'v blocked, provide material about each of the not anits or hacteriUM br ss hich lungs are more easily damaged hy air components of its system or ofkr ad- we're researching a cure. The biggest forced into them, skulls are more vice on establishing a pediatric trauma killer of children is accidental injury. flexible and will press into the brain center for a region. Se s ere injuryor "pediatric instead of fracturing, and medicines trauma- kills inure children than all don't have the same effects. diseases combined. "Children are not miniature adults," How the KT! Works -Fs Cr\ year in the I. nited States, comments Richard Murphy. PA, Assis- The Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma In- 15.000 children die and another tant Director of the Kiwanis Pediatric stitute operates inside the New 100.000 are permanently disabled be- Trauma Institute. -I've seen injured England Medical Center. It isn't a cause of accidental injury." explains kids w ho had fairly stable vital signs building or even a specific room. Burton H. Harris. MD, Chief of one moment and literally no pulse or Rather, it is a system established in- Pediatric Surgery at the Ness England blood pressure the next. It's as if the side the hospital. The experts needed Medical Center and Director of the bottom just dropped out. You rarely for the pediatric trauma system al- Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute in see that kind of response in adults.- rez.dy worked at the hospital, and the Boston. -Were some Ms% epidemic to That is why there needs to bean en- special equipment was there before come along and cause a fractionof tire system designed to respond to the Institute was formed. The KTI that death and disahilii. the public pediatric trauma, which includes well- simply established a systemor would demand action, yet \Se have trained emergency inedical "protocol--that makes sure all these been curiously slow to respond to the technicians, local hospitals that can resources are available and properly most important child health problem treat most injured children. and a coordinated when a severely injured in our country.- regional pediatric trauma center to child arrives at the hospital. There are two way s to stop this ss hich the most seserely injured When a call comes inwhether killer. One is a, is to prerent the acci- children will he sent for treatMelli by from an ambulance 15 blocks away or dent from es er happening. That is a team of doctors well versed in the a luispital 150 miles away---a team of ss ItsY(nriie ChiNnw: Prilwily One specials needs ot the patient. doctors is alerted. By the time the provide\ sers ice bulletins On pre s en- child arrives at the emergency room, tis e measures like installing smoke the doctors, nurses, and technicians alaims and preventing scald burns. The Model Solution are waiting. Headed hy a pediatric 13tit no matter how caret ul we are or Kiss anians in the Ness England Dis- surgeon. the team may involve what pre\ entise measures we take. trict understood this need and made a pediatric specialists in anesthesiology,. some children will suffer Nes ere in- commitment in 1980 to establish the radiology, neurology, neurosurgery. juries. Pediatric trauma kills in ways Kiss anis Pediatric Trauma Institute litany doctors don't understand be- (KTI) at the New England Medical cause children don't respond to se' ere Center. It is now the heart of a injuries the way adults do. Blood pres- pediatric trauma system that reaches sure dile,..11'1. Mdicate severe 11100dloss into every community throughout the six states of Ness England, ensuring that ever\ injured child receives expert care. The KTI can stand as a numdel and a resource for other districts or group. of clubs that decide to help iajured

1 orthopedics. and critical care Primary and Secondary Aftercare medicine. They will accomplish in 20 Hospitals Severely injured children generally minutes What would usually require a Because the huh hospital treats only face a long recovery period and inten- full hour. completely es aluming and the most severely injured children-- sive rehahilitative therapy. The huh stabili/ing the injured child. tis e to 15 percentesery hospital in hospital should be prepared to house In the same way that the doctors are the region must agree to play a children for long periods, and the readied, the appropriate operating specific role in the pediatric trauma child may need to go to another hospi- room, equipment. and space in the in- response system. A majority of in- tal for further rehahilitatiVe*therapy. tensive care unit are arranged juries are treated at the nearest local As soon as it is practical, each child autonlatically. Because the protocol in hospital. More serious injuries that re- will he transferred to a hosptial closer the hospital makes the injured child quire specialists or special equipment to his or her home. At this time, a the top priority, blood tests and other go to secondary hospitals. Children therapeutic plan can he sent to the lab work are done immediately. with multiple iajuries and those W ho receiving hospital. and the child can Equally important. all the people help- do not respond to treatment at local he scheduled fin. killoss -up visits. ing the child have tremendous and secondary hospitals are sent to the experience with pediatric trauma be- huh hospital. Hospitals and medical cause thes treatdl the severely personnel must go through a self-as- How Kivranis Clubs injured children in New England. sessment process to determine which patients theshould treat. All the Can Help hospitals must agree on the policies These components can hc as- Components of the for directing or transferring patients to sembled in any region. and Kiwanis a patiCillar hospital. can bring if about. In fact. Kiwanis System clubs in lour districts now help sup . Even seeing this highly efficient Prehospital Care port pediatric trauma centers in a sy stem Operate at the New England sariety of way sNlany of the ac- Ahr)ut40 percent of the children Medical Center doesn't really define iiities they undenake are described who die before arris ing at the hospital the KTI. The activity around one in- below. The first two can he imple- do not receise the treatment they jured child in Boston is just the hub of mented by a single club. The latter need. This is ss hs emergency medical a s .tem that reaches into es as com- projects require coordination with technicians imd paramedics need spe- munity in Ness England. To really other clubs or technical assistance. cial training on treatment of pediatric understand the concept of a pediatric trauma. trauma center. we must look at the Safety components in the system. Communications The trauma centers enc(mrage education actis ities and other efforts Closely linked to prehospital care that present injuries to children. The Tertiary Hospital and referials is the communication A ternary hospital is a unisers;tv These include loaning of car safety sy stem. lanorgency medical tech- teaching hospital or a regional seats. checking OY list rl ling snuike nicians should he in communication children's hospital. Like the Kiss zulis detectors, distrihuting information on with the hospital from the time they Pediatric Trauma Institute in Boston. poison prevention. andstalling find the injured child. so ads ice can it serses as the regional huh for the safety gates to present tails. Refer to be gis en on treatment and a decision system. treating the most criticalls in- the Project Idea List and other sers ice can be made dhow which hospital the jured children and overseeing training bulletins to learn more about safets child should he taken to. and deselopment of the rest of the projects. pediatric trauma response ss stem. Most. if not all, of the pediatric Transport Family Caring Network Ili most regit ins. both ground and specialists and equipment needed to The Kiss ains Pediatric Trauma In- air transport are needed. The rcceis - treat severely injured children are at stitute in Boston has set up a network Mg hospital is usually responsible for this facility. A protocol coordinates ss ith clubs throughout Ness England pros iding transportation for critical the hospital's response W ith the other to help any family whose child is sent care patients. often pros iding a mobile hospitals and establishes an admin- to th; Institute. As soon as the care unit----hchcoptei or ambulance-- istrative structure to help develop the hospital learns a child is coming. the rest of the system. This requires an al- stalled bs a cress of doctor. nurse, and locaticm of resources kw program paramedic. des elopment. patient care, long-stay units. and the components described

112 2 administrator of the KTI calls the club 3. Work with a hospital ad- Conference on Pediatric 'Frau= in In- nearest the child's home. 'Ihe club of- ministrator, social woke . or dianapolis during September of 1992. fers help with: menther of the clergy to establish The club could request material on services the club can perform. a sys- this conference from the KTI and then Transportation tent kir deciding when the network share it with the nearest pediatric sur- should he act ivitated. and the level of geon. The club wimld demonstrate its I IO ' sitting control (or oversight I the hosptial interest by offering to subsidize the Child care should has e Os er the family care net- doctor's attendance. I;ood work. Laundry and cleaning Equipment I .aw n mow iitL 4. Set up a directory of the club Ambulances and community hospi- Notify ing tinnily and friends about inembers and their services k)r the tals sometimes lack the equipment the emergency club committee that w ill mersee the needed for the care of small children. fainily caring network. Arrange for a For instance. the hk)od pressure cuff This allow s the rtrents to go to Bos- member of the committee always to that fits adults and older children is ton and he with their tainted chikl he on call-- -as ailahle for a call from too large for infants and toddlers. ithout ha\ ing orr about the the hospital administrator. Many other pieces of equipment are Ctib Seoul meeting. piano lesson. or similarly oversized. A club can re- other obligations. 5. Train participating club members quest infornmtion Ito m the KTI on the Kiwitniims in Boston ntio, itlso as- to clear any offer of additional assis- pedtatric equipment that shtmld be in sist the I amily hv arranging for tance with the chairman of the an zunbulance and work with the emer- lodging. s isiting the parents at the prt)gram or the hospital administrator. gency medical system to make sure hospital. meeting net-) day needs, and Neer should a promise he made that these items are acquired. working w ith the hospital social cannot he kept. ss orker or member of the clergy to Pediatric Trauma Center pass time and comfort the parents. For additional information on set- In four districts, clubs have united The clubs init\ also offer financial as- ting up a I.amily Caring Network, to raise funds for the establishment of sistance to help s ith non-medical contact 'he Kis: anis Pediatric Trauma a pediatric trauma center.If your dis- costs that w ill not he covered by in- Institute in I3oston. (Address and trict decides to pursue this project, it surance. such as housing. meals. and phone number helow.) Vs ill be voted on at a district eon en- pal king costs. Sometinr...s. hometown tion. and clubs will he inkmned about I 11nd-raising esents are des eloped. Training the amount of money they will he (Inks ha\ e assisted with the return In New England, local clubs or- asked to raise each year. In New home hy building a v, heelchair ramp. ganiie seminars for emergency England. clubs committed to giving ..-enting iiss heelchair or adjustahle medical technicians and other medical SI MOO each year to the K-1.1, thereby bed. instidling an e \ tension phone. personnel. A team from the KTl con- raising a total of S245,000 per year. ielocating a bedroom to the first floor. ducts the training. and the club These funds are used to support the pity iding transportation. staging a handles all the logistics. front registra- parts of the program not related :,, part). or arrangmg tor child care. tion to setting up the room and patient care (winch are paid for hy the lunne nursing. or tutoring. pros iding refreshments. Registration patients nil their insurimce Com- If \ our dull) decides to set tip a hum fees can he established to pay for patties). The Kiw anis mtmey supports ly care network w ith the local hospital materials and travel of the speakers. the "nonres enue-producing- effOrts: or it trauma center. you w ill need to The result is better-prepared local educatitm of medical persmtnel, com- take these steps: medical personnel and visibility for munity safety education programs, Kiwanis. accident awareness effi rts. research. I. Surse the club to lind out w hat The KTI ss ill ssork ss ith a club inter- and linking community hospitals with ser ices (and at what times) each club ested in setting up a similar trtining the regional center. member is.w illing to pro\ ide. Estith- session outside New kng land. The Clubs that wish to learn nuIre about lish it budget for the support ocii club wtmld need to skork with the In- starting a district-wide campaign for a stitute to find doctors in the region pediatric tritium center should ccintact: 2. Contact the mental health associa- s. ho would he ss illing to take the KTI tion or local clergy to find solunteers materials and conduct the training ses- Kiw anis Pediatric Trauma Institute trained in family counseling and stress sion. New England Medical Center management w ho ss ill participate in Clubs in New England has e also 75(1 Washington Street the network. subsidized the attendance of doctors Boston. MA (12 I 11 and nurses at conferences on pediatric trauma. A club could encourage a ((i17 ) 956-6381 pediatric surgeon or similar specialist to attend by offering to pay the registration fee or air fare. For instance. the Kiw anis Pediatric Trauma Institute w ill hold its National

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4 11,4 PO #9 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Home Safety 7 - Checklist

Home Safety Checklist Preventable injurv is the number one killer name ofyour club, and a Kiwanis logo. Credit ofchildren in most developed nations. In the can also be given to the printer it/ic provides the United States alone, more than 8,000 children checklist JOr free or at a reduced cost. are killed and at least 50,000 are permanently The checklist can be distributed to parents disabled by preventable injuries. This year, one through hospitals, pediatricians, supermarkets. chthl in fintr will suffer a preventable injury pharmacies, child care centers and preschools, serious enough to require inedU-al attention. toy stores, clothing stores, churches, and com- Kiwanis clubs can help prevent many of munity centers. Some clubs may hz to train these injuries by educating parents about volunteers to go into targeted neighborhoods and dangers their children .face every day at home. administer the home safetv checklist with the A large majority of the accidents of children parents. This will help the Kiwanians determine age Jive and under happen at home. A carefid special needs the families have. For example, few review of the possible dangers in a home would families may have working smoke detectors or identift many of the luizardsand thus the in- syrup of ipecac. Club efforts can then be focused juriesthat children encounter This is the to meet these needs. piopose of the home safety checklist. Encourage parents who use the checklist to The checklist is designed to be printed and share with your club any other safety precautions distrilnited to.families who have young that should be added to the checklist in the fit- children. The pages are ready to print as tlwy lure. Please share these comments vith the stoma. This cover page can be replaced with a Program Development Department at the cover that carries the title "Home Safety Check- Kiwanis International Qffice. list fin- Families with Kning Children," the Home Safety Checklist for Families with Young Children

fhis safety checklist is designed to Are these dangerous objects out of 71 Are electric appliances: help you protect your childrenand reach: _ unplugged when nor inuse:, everyone else in the familyfrom _ knives and other sharp ohjects? ____ positioned away fivm all unintentional injuries. It is designed to _ hot Mod, beverages, and water? he an easy, room-by-room survey that glassware? _ Out (/ your child's reach? will quickly point out possible _ serrated boxes (y plastic wrap dangers. When you find a haiardous and aluminum foil? 1Isthere a lock on the toilet seat'? situat ion. change itnow! 1 Isyour child always watched Of course, no checklist will identify 1 Is the table cloth folded or secured vhile in the bathtub'? all the possihle dangers. so use this so it can't he pulled down? 71Is there protective padding on the process to look for other ha/ards. 1 Do you keep hot food and faucet in the bathtub'? After you have read through the listed beverages out of the hands of 71Is there a non-skid mat in the bath- items for a room, take a few minutes adults who are holding children'? tub'? io look at the room from the view- 1 Do you keep pot handles turned 1 Is your water heater turned down point of a child. away from the stove, so children to 120 degrees Fahrenheit'? Get down at toddler level and sur- can't reach them? 1 Do you check the temperature of vey the room. 1 Do you test the temperature of the water in the tub before you put Remember that anything that fits in foods (especially microwaved your child into it'? a child's mouth will probably he foods) before serving them to your 71 Have you installed anti-scald put in. child'? devices in your tub spout and Look for climbing opportunities 1 Do you keep your child in a safe shower head? and things that can he pulled down place while cooking? from above. 1 Do you keep toys and play ac- Watch for sharp corners, tivities out of the kitchen'? YOUR CHILD'S protrusions, and ohjects a child 1 Does your child's high-chair have BEDROOM might fall upon. a wide base and a harness? And keep in mind whatever special 1 Do you avoid serving your chili: 1 Does your child's crih ha\ e: talents your children have shown peanuts, grapes. I:4 dogs, pop- _ slats that are no more than 2- from prying off air vent covers to corn, and carrots? 3/8 inches(6cm.) apart? spotting loose carpet tacks. Are matches and lighters kept high a mattress tha .fits snugly If you answer "no" to any item in up, out of your child's reach? against the .frame (no more the following checklist, you have than two finger-widths be- found a dangerous situation that you tween slats and mat(ress)? should change. BATHROOM sides that are 22 inches (56 cm.) above au, mattress! 1 Do you have a one-ounce bottle of _ secure, child-proof side locks? KITCHEN syrup of ipecac for use in a poisoning emergency'? (Be sure to call 1 Have you made sure that the crib 1 Are there safety latches on cabinet your poison control center before has: doors'? giving syrup of ipecac to your _no sharp corners or edges and 1 Are cleaning supplies stored: child.) no projections. such as posts? separatelyfrom Mods? 1 Are medicines and cleaning sup- _ nobroken, cracked, or loose Iii a locked cabinet out of plies stored: parts? reach of y(mr child? _in a locked cabinet? _ no loose plastb. sheeting! _ in their original containers! _ Outof your child's reach! _ no cords or drapery in the in clearly marked and original crib:' Are vitamins and medicine out of containers? _ no 1(111. cradle gyms or mobiles your child's reach? _ in containers withchild-resis- that the child can use to crawl Are food treats and other attractive taizt caps? out! items stored away, from the stove? 1 Are rators, scissors, and other sharp utensils stored out of your child's reach'? 110 ObjeelS that could help your 1 Is there firm footing (m the stairs loose chan,ge (choking child climb out such as 0 (no loose carpeting. U)eVerl steps)? dang('r)? hamper. pillows o stuffed 7 Are the stairs well lighted? _ purse and pocketbook contents ainmals, which shou1.1 be 1 Are the protective walls and rail- (poison and rhOkillg dallgerl).) removed once the child can ings cm stairs, porches, and _ balloons,' stand stand? balconies sturdy and in good _ matches and lighters' repair? 1 Have you placed the crib at least 7 Arc small rugs and runners tacked One fO(tt from \sails, furniture, down or slip resistant? radiators, heating vents, and win- ELECTRIC OUTLETL 1 Are high-traffic areas well lighted dow s? AND FIXTURES and free of ohstructions? 1 Does the changing table have 7 Hase you checked to make sure straps to prevent falls? 'I Do all electric switches and outlets there are no loose paint chips 1 Does your child wear tlame-retar- have cover plates? around the house? dant clothing? 1 Do all unused outlets have no- 1 Are guns stored unloaded in lock- shock, child-proof covers? ed cases and drawers and the 1 Are electric cords: amthlinittOn stored separately? PLAY AREAS _ ofyour child's reach and 1 Is there at least one working out 0f traffic flow? smoke detector on each floor. and I)oes the toy chest have no lid. a neitherjrayed nor cracked? is there one in the hallw ay by the lightweight lid, or a safe-closing _ neither under rugs nOrstapled bedrooms? nicchanism? to luiseboards! 1 Are the smoke detectors checked Are the toys appropriate for your and cleaned regularly ? child' Arc they: 1 Is the use of extension cords kept 1 Are the batteries changed once (inflowsmall pieces that (MI to a minimum, and are the unused each year? Innik 0110 lu clwked outlets on the cord cos ered? 1 Do you have a home tire escape without show corners or 1 Does every light fixture: plan? (dges:' _ !lave a li,ghtInd!) in it? _ Does iiIURT tWo exit mines.' It ithollt aTh 101111.5 aka (VII _ have a light bulb of ap- _ Do you have adesignated pinch lingers? propriate size and wattage? meeting place? _ II /MOW ahypl?!ier11011.5 that Do you practice it in the dark, could injure an ey'? 7 If you use fuses. are they the cor- (01 your hands and knees? and weight _ of appmpriate size rect sizes for your circuits? _ Do .vou turn onthe smoke tor your child? TiAre space heaters: detector's alarm fOr your clald _ panted with non-toxic paint _properly grounded (Ind con- to hear? _ with playlalue fOr your child. nected directly to an outlet? so !hes (toilbeeoMe oNects Atable and ponectively 1 Does your child know how to deqrlirliVe covered? 'stop. drop. and roll- to put out inaccesible to your child? clothing that is on fire? 1 Do you routinely inspect and dis- at least 36 inches from cur- 1 Is there a working fire extin- pose (if damaged or linafe toys'? tains. towels. calpets, papers. guisher to handle small tires, and furniture? especially in the kitchen? --used according 10 1 I)you have your chimney in- WINDOWS manufacturer\ spected and cleaned every year? 1 Is access to w Mdows blocked so hIcal ji re ordinances? 1 Are there a screens or safety rails that your child can't fall out? on any fire places. wood-burning stoves, or heaters? 1 Do windows have safety bars (ex- GENERAL LIVING cept windows leading to fire 1 Are emergency numbers posted h escapes)? AREAS the phone: 1 Are dangerous items out of reach: _ poison(Viand Center.' plants (poison danger)? allibithrnee? STAIRS & RAILINGS cigarene,i (Ind butts (poison police? 1 Are there safety gates (not the ac- danger)? cordian type) at the top and bottom of all stairways? 117 Ti Do you regularly check the play Add to this checklist any hazards BASEMENTS & area and remove poisonous plants you spotted that were not listed above: GARAGES and berries? 1 Is the play equipment: 1 Do child-proof latches control ac- _ securely anchored? cess to the basement and garage? at least six Pet from limces or 1 Are volatile liquids, such as clean- other structures :' ing solvents, tigh capped and _ free of pmjections, slunp away from the fur _Ice, hot water edges, loose parts, entrapment heater, and other ignition sources? spaces, hard swings, and 1 Are you sure thatno gasoline is moving parts? stored in the basement or your _ surrounded by a soft landing garage, if it is attached to your space.' house? 1 Do power tools have guards in Now you have a complete list of the 1 Do swimming pools have: dangers in your home. Your next step place and are they unplugged _ fences on all four sides that are should be to make a place to eliminate when not in use? at least five feet high? these dangers. If you need help carry- _ gates that are self-latching and ing out your plan, contact your local OUTDOOR PLAY Kiwanis club. AREAS 1 Do you supervise your child's outdoor play? 1 Does you child's play area: have an impact-ab.sorbant ma-- face like pea gravel or wood chips ? _ have a fence around it:'

The information in this brochure was provided by the National SAFE KIDS Campaign. Vashington. D.C. Developed for local Kiwanis clubs by Kiwanis International 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, IN 46268

118 PO #10 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE ;-

400°' Awareness8 Preverition of ChM Abuse

Neglect (ISPCAN) has expanded the implementing sonic of the activities in The Problem investigation of abuse to the this bulletin. Clubs can also develop exploitation of working and street more intensive support for parents by In 1962, Dr. Henry C. Kempe children, trafficking and sale of working with private in government published an article on what he called childien, and the institutional abuse of agencies to improve or expand their "the battered child syndrome." As children. progranis that offer parenting family services professionals ISPCAN also has fostered the education, drop-in care, and addressed the prevalence of this exchange of research on treatment and counseling. These projects are problem, they expanded the prevention of ahuse, thus encouraging addressed in PO bulletin #I3, terminology to "child abuse" and the development of strong national "Parenting Education." categorized such abuse into physical, organizations. National organizations sexual, and emotional abuse and in Australia, Canada, France, Finland. neglect. Italy, the United Kingdom, and the In the United States, this marked the United States have tried to make beginning of a public discussion of children a priority in society by Working child abuse that has greatly increased educating the public and creating a the number of reported cases. In1990, climate in which it is easier to work for with Other there were more than 2.5 million protection of children. Organizations incidents of child abuse reported in the United States, an increase of more than As noted in many of the materials 30%since1985and WO% since1980. for Young Children: Priority One, the Some 27% of those abuse cases were best way for a Kiwanis club to become due to physical abuse, 46% to neglect, What Kiwanis involved is to work with organizations 15% to sexual abuse, and13%to already addressing the problem. In emotional maltreatment or other Can Do many countries there is a group (abandonment and dependency). An dedicated to preventing child abuse To eliminate child abuse, society estimated 1,211 children from39 through public education, such as the must first understand that abuse occurs states died from abuse or neglect, a National Committee for Prevention of and that it is unacceptable. Clubs can 38%increase nationwide since 1985. Child Abuse in the United States or the initiate an awareness campaign to help Almost 90% of children who died as a Institute for the Prevention of Child people understand the different kinds result of child abuse or neglect were Abuse in Canada. The Kiwanis of abuse and establish a clear public District Chainnan for the Young under age 5; 53% were infants under attitude. Materials in this bulletin can age one. Children program has contact be used to start a campaign, and clubs Child abuse may be differently information about child abuse can work with organizations that focus defined, investigated in several ways, prevention organizations in your state, on public education. discussed publicly to varying degrees; pros ince, or country. In the following There must also he education and hut it occurs in every culture, in every paragraphs are some of the activities support for parents to help them raise country. The Int,mational Society for developed by these organizations that their children safely. On the public Prevention of Child Abuse and Kiwanis clubs might help support. awareness level, clubs can encourage positive parent-child activities by 119 Public Awareness Sabbath EventsContactplaces Advisory Council---Assistthe 1 Most child abuse prevention of worship and propose that they local committee against child organizations have public awareness set askie a Sabbath to celebrate abuse in creating an advisory inaterials that they will share with children and families. Suggest a council. Make use of the contacts Kiwanis clubs. Rather than starting sermon or discussion on the club has to invite community from scratch, clubs should seek out disciplining without shouting or leaders ento the advisory council. these organizations and ask permission spanking, reaching out to parents Involve other service clubs, to use printed and video public service having difficulty with their business leaders, government announcenients, radio spits, or art for children, or the importance of officials, and school II yeNa id brochures. Some also offer positive parenting for physical. administrators. "op ed" pieces that can be submitted to emotional, and spiritual good health. Bus.ness Breakfast---Invite newspapers. owners and managers of local In the United States, the National Blue Ribbon CampaignUrge businesses to a breakfast to meet Committee for the Prevention of Child everyone in the community to with local leaders of the light Abuse (NCPCA) has pamphlets aimed wear a blue ribbon during April, against child abuse. This at parents and the general public about to show that they know child informational In eeting should parenting and various forms of abuse. abuse is an important problem. It address issues that the attendees A catalog of materials is available may be effective te make the will have interest in, such as the from the NCPCA (address and phone wearing of the blue ribbon a benefits of employee assistance number on the hack of this bulletin). reminder of a child in the programs concerning family community who died from child support issues and counseling Child Abuse Prevention abuse during the past year. services. Month Kids Day--Organize a "Kids for h. ,-)atynting1 Presentation Invite In the United States, the National Kids- parade dedicated to leaders of parent-teacher Cotnmittee for the Prevention of Child children, featuring children. organizations, child care centers, Abuse has declared April as Child Explain in all publicity that this and churches to attend a Abuse Prevention Month, and similar event is meant to show children presentation on how to organizations in other countries have that their parents love them and to encourage positive parenting. adopted this effort--though the month remind parents how special their presented by a local child abuse has sometimes changed. Government children are. Request the Kiwanis prevention organization. departments of child and family Kids' Day kit from the services have also become involved. A Internatiomd Office for additinmal Kiwanis club could assist local events ideas on child-centered events. Fund Raising for Child Abuse Prevention Month in a Fighting child abuse also requires variety of ways: numey, and clubs may be asked to help Developing New Contacts support a fund-raising activity. Here ReCogniti011 EMUI-folda Any organization that addresses are some of the possible activities: luncheon, dinner, award ceremony child abuse, whether it is a or other event to publicly thank government-supported agency or a Corporate Challenge-----Assistthe child protection workers, foster fully independent non-protit, needs local committee for the prevention parents, a media personality, or support in the community. Kiwanis of child abuse in soliciting support others who have made a clubs can furnish sonic of that support, from local corporations and significant contribution to but just as important, Kiwanis can be businesses. Assemble lists of the preventing child abuse. the link to other parts of the current supporter; and those who community. A club or group of clubs are not supporting the child abuse PublicitySend press releasesor could help develop a network of prevention committee. Send "media alerts" to local radio and support through any of the following contact letters to non-supporters television stations. efforts: that urge them to he good PlockmationWorkwith the corporate citizens like the sponsoring organization to have corporations that do contribute. government leaders issue Follow up with teams that visit proclamations supporting Child each corporation. Abuse Prevention Month. 1 20 Life Saiwt. Collection- -Contact their children), or a fast food your local NCPCA chapter and Parent Support restaurant (lesson: simietintes work with them to sell Life Savers parents are too busy to ct)ok, but The public awareness campaign can candies to help save the lives of tht.:/ want you to eat a healthy expand into suggesting ways parents children. can cope and others can lend support. Athletic. Cmitests Some chapters The radio script on page 6 can he Spinsor a "Messy Fun Day" have held a "Battle of the Badges" offered to local stations, or the video where children and parents are in which law enlOrcentent officers version of this public service req u ire d to wear old clothes that fri)111 vari(nis jurisdictions have announcement can be requested from can be stained. Then, offer all the competed. A Kiwanis club could the International Office (video PSA's arts and crafts that parents don't help organize such an event-or it can have the name of your local want their children to try at home could field its own team. Kiwanis club tagged to the end of the because they arc too messy. announcement). Possible print Activities can include lingo materials appear on the next several paints (or pudding paints), putting pages. Additional posters, brochures, on make-up, mud pies, building and public service announcements are dams, creating working Educating available from the (U.S.) National volcanoes, and throwing water Committee for Prevention of Child halloons. The typical child can the Public Abuse and its state chapters. probably name ten other messy activities that are strictly There are three steps a club can take tOrbidden at home. to increase public awareness about child abuse. The first step is for the Parent-Child Activities club to learn about the problem in the The more tiine parents spend in Parent Support Activities community. The two questionnaires positive activities with their children. on page 5 show the kinds of the stronger the family bectones, and Organize a parenting fair. Invite information the club should collect: the better it can withstand stresses. So, expt .ts On children and parenting statistics on abuse and the level of clubs can help prevent child abuse to make presentations. Have services available. The qUestionnaires with a variety of positive actkities. suppcni organizatitins run booths. can be used to interview doctors, the Offer entertainment and family court judge, social workers, Distribute a calendar page that has hahysitting services for the agencies that provide services to an activity on each day for parents children. To le:trn inure, request families, hospitals, and the police. to do with their children. Adapt the bulletin on parenting fairs. Second. the club can publicize the the sample on the next page of P()#5, from the International local facts about child ahuseputting this bulletin. Office. them in a national context. The Organize a series of "Parent-Child Organii.e monthly parenting sample news rdease on page 6 is an Special Expeditions" to encourage fOrUllls. Have one speaker each example of the kind of article the club parents to spend "special time" numth on a topic that helps could send out to newspapers and with their children. In each parents cope. Deal with positive radio stations. This can be fidlowed by expedition, work in a message steps (how to build your child's posters or radio/television public that encourages positive family self-esteem) and preventive service announcements that relationships. For example, measures (what to do when you're communicate the simple message that sponsor a day at the zoo that ready to blow up). Be sure to abuse does occurand it shouldn't. incorporates a lesson that all offer habysitting servic,:s. Finally, the club can investigate child animalsand peopledeserve abuse issues in the community--such Print and distribute a parenting kindness. Other possible as the regulations involved in referring resource list. Identify all the expeditions include tours of a families tOr counselingto see how sources of help tOr parents, from museum (lesson: parents want they are being addressed by local hotlines to therapists. Put this their children to learn ahout the government. This type of eftOrt should information in a brochure and world), a park or nature preserve involve careful research and leave copies at high traffic stores (lesson: we need to take care of discussion with city council members (super markets, pharmacies, toy nature, just as parents take care of or state legislators. stores), child care centers, children), an airport (lesson: schools, and doctors' offices. sometimes parents have to go away on business, but they love

3 121 Work with your library to develop Create flyers for use as shopping Help set up a parenting phone a special "Parenting Resource" hag stuffers. Eventually, every line. Evayone who answers the section in the library. A list of parent seems to face a control phone needs training, und there sul2'sled hooks fbr the section is problem at the supermarket or must be a system to refer callers avai,,,ole from the Program grocery store, For many, it's a who need help beyond the support Develcpment 1)epartment at the weekly challenge. The flyer can offered on the phone. Contact the International Office. The club help parents feel less Ohio League Against Child Abuse tnay want to offer to purchase self-conscious and may encourage to learn how they set up the Parent some of the suggested titles. Help other customers to feel more Connection Line. The address the library set up the parenting onnfiwtable offering to help. A and phone number appear on the section in a locatitm where sample flyer appears on page 7. back page of this bulletin. parents with young Lhildren will Work with a local radio station to be able to) reach it quickly and create a weekly parenting easily. Then, publicize the section program that features experts on so that parents learn ahout it. parenting, child development, and Develop a campaign on shaken psychology. Have each expert baby syndmme. Many people do prepare a five to ten minute not realize that shaking a baby can discussion of a given topic and cause permanent brain damage or then answer questions from the death. Request PO bulletin #I1 host or the listeners. from thc International Office.

Build a Better Relationship with Your Children! Do a Fun Activity with Your Children Each Day This Month! Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Play rfr". Make paperBuy and read Walk around Cook some Make a Reverse "follow the boats & sail a new book. the block pudding bubble bath. roles. Child leader". them in the haekwards, together. becomes bathtub. holding hands. the parent.

Finger Make frozen Draw pictures Make a Play I ,earn a Make paint. fruit juice of the necklace out "hide new song. puppets and treats. weather. * of macaroni. and seek". put on a 4: 4: show.

Go to ti,e Plint seeds Visit Shop fbr Blow Bake Go to the park and or hu:/ a the I ihrary. groceries bubbles. 0 0 some zoo or feed the flower. together. 0 cookies. pet store. ducks.

Make a Try cartwheels, Make a Make a Pick out 3 Rent a Go to a tent with a somersaults, memories or bird house songs and video and museum. table tind or crab photo from a milk dance. make blankets. walking. album. carton. e".,. popcorn.

Wash the Take silly Build a Take apart Make a Visit the Go for a car. photos of city out of something giant ice biggest toy picnic. one another. blocks. that doesn't cream sundae store in the V work. to share. area.

Sample calendar to distribute to parents. 1?2 4 The National Committee Survey of Existing Child Abuse Prevention Resources for the Prevention of Child , ;In A a Fe, Componews of a Compienerwve Cried Abuse (NCPCA) was formed in 1967 to educate I Does your comrnundy offer support programs for new parents to prepare them for the lob of parenting and to the public about the enhance parent-child bonding' a Yes. all new parents receive support little-known problem of b Yes all new parents who seek support can receive it child abuse and to find c Yes. but support programs aren I available to all who need them d No ways of preventing it.It has been instrumental in 2 Does your community offer continuing education-support for parents to provide parents with donation about child development and teach child care skills? awakening the public to a Yes continuing education is provided to all parents this problem and it has b Yes continuing education is available to all parents who want it c Yes but continuing education is not available to all who need rt identified ten components d No to a comprehensive

3 Does your community provide early and Penocht Childhood screening, diagnosis and treatment to identify and approach to child abuse deal with physical psychological, and developmental problems in children at an ea dy age" prevention. A good first aYes. early and penodic screening is provided to all children b Yes screening is provided to any child whose parent requests it step toward develop;ng a c Some screening is available to some children club project on child el No abuse is to Identify the 4 Is child care available, to furnish parents regular or occasional respite from caring Mr Omit children' needs In your community. aYes respite Care is available to all parents at at limes bYes rosette care is available but times or the number of users is hrnrlecl Use the ten guidelines cRespite care is limited or unavailable but child care services and baby-sine's are available from the NCPCA to dAvailability of child care service and baby-sitting is limited e No evaluate your community.

5 Are there programs for abused children, to minimize the long-term effects of abuse or. chddren and to reduce the liketihood of their becoming abusive adutts" a Yes b No

6 Does the community offer life skills training tor children and young adults, to equip young people with the skills and knowledge necessary tO succeed in adulthOOd and improve family relationships" d Yes b No

7 Does the commundy offer family support services to provide immediate assistanCe to parents m rmes 0 stress on a 24-hour bases' Circle all that am available a Teephone hollinewarmline-answer line hCrisis caretakersbaby-srttersinurseries c.Cnsis counseling d None

8 Are there self-help groups and other neighborhood supports to reduce tne social isolation often associated with Sample needs abuse" a Yes surveystatistics on abuse b No

9 Are scowl serviCe health and education resources community-based coordinated and telly available/ a Yes b They are available but not community-based or coordinated Survey on Child Abuse and Neglect c No

10 Is there public education on child abuce prevention to inform the public of the magnitude of the problem ol

child abuse in the community and tell them where to turn for help') 1 Hoy, mans reports of dold abuse and neglect !rase been made one. the a Yes. and awareness is high past sear'' lloss does tins compare Ira other sears" bYes, bul more needs to be done c No 2. I itnA mans adults are in counseling because of their ahusise belies ior '

floss many f. hildren has e been separated from then parents to ensure the Sample community needs salets iii the children' surveylevel of services available 4 Mos many foster parents I or other temporars care gis ens) has,. been reported for :Mums e behas tor"

5 Hoy. mans eases related to child abuse or neglect are curt entls hong handled by social ss orkers" floss man) total cases does the average social ssorker handle"

b. What is the cost 10 gok eminent I or each abuse related custods hearing' Each ii vi for child abuse or negles ii[loss mans ol these eourt proceedings occurred in the last year '

7. What is the cost to local gosernment for each child of !mister care'? Iloyy mans children are in foster care because (if abuse or neglect '

1.t What is the cost to local go% eminent for each Minds in court ordered theraps I loss many families are noo.ri ',Mil therap.

The best way to persuade people that child abuse Is a problem in their own if What is the cost for a home-vomation system for families at risk 'Iiaisy community is to gather information about the problem and publicize it. The mans families are Judged to he at risk of child abuse questions to the right can be directed toward the police department, local government's department of family services, family court Judge, counseling 10I loss mans families !rase requested help and are not receis mg '

agency, health department, hospital, coroner, clergy, and the local arm of the II Floss severe a case ol ahuse/neglect or Mos many tunics IlltIst a famils he Association for Protecting Children or Committee for Prevention of Child reported for someone to actually ins est:gate' Abuse or similar groups. No one source will have all the answersindeed, some questions may never be answeredand other sources may be 12. Iloy. mans children hese been hospitalued because of abuse or neglect suggested. oser the past year' lloss many children has e died? A best guess or opinion question: What rier,:ent age a if eases of child Once this survey process is completed, there will be material for a news abuse and neglect are nese'. identified 'I loss man) of the mimics to release similar to the example on page 6. The survey may also prompt the children might he unidentified eases ui s had abuse ' club to convene a public meeting or discussion among community leaders 14lifos V,Otild these ansysers hay e differed Ilse sears ago ' Ten ' ssents about a more comprehensive plan to address the child abuse problem.

193 BEST COPYAVAILABLE 5 Sample letter to survey recipient Sample press release

NEWS FROM KIWANIS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For More Information. Contact The Kiwanis Club of Baytown Elliot Sebastini 857-1253

Children Need Our Help: Child Abuse Increasing in Baytown

Child abuse is a bigger problem in Baytown today than it has ever been before, according to the statistics compiled by the Kiwanis Club of Baytown 'We believe it's time for this community to wake up and address this problem," says Kiwanis club president Travis Sloan `There are more children at risk than ever before.' Over the last ten years. reports of child abuse in Baytown have tnpled, based on records of the pollee department and the Shore County Family Services Department In 1981. 211 reports of child abuse and neglect were received, but by 1991. police and family services records show 684 reports in the county. Counseling services for these families have not kept pace with the need, according to the Kiwanis dub's research. The staff of three counselors has not been increased in seven years, confirms Shore County Human Services spokesperson Sled Hopkins. -The result is that parents who need help get put on a waiting fist." dams an outraged Sloan. "The people waiting for counseling are tragedies waiting to happen' The Baytown Kiwanis club also discovered that the number of children taken away from their parents is up 65 percent from the level five years ago, according to Family Court records. The number of injuries related to child abuse recorded at Bayshore County Hospital is at its highest level ever, up 14 percent from last year 'The closing of the Barnard tire factory and related layoffs have had a severe impact in our community." explains Family Court Judge Nicholas Sears. The economic problems in families increases tension that can result in more family violence. 'Children are being hurt because some parents feel overwhelmed," concludes Judge Sears The Baytown Kiwanis club is now organizing a meeting to discuss what new steps can be taken to address these increasing problems. The club has invited community and government leaders, family service providers, and the organizations that address child abuse. The dub hopes a coalition will form that can develop and implement a comprehensive plan for child abuse prevention.

SCRIPT #1-40 seconds Kiwanis Club of Bedford Falls Third Annual When children try your soul, as they will: when they cause you grief, as they do; when they rouse your anger and provoke you to wrath, as is MESSY FUN DAY their way; when they reduce you to tears and prayers, as often happens; love them. Don't bother about anything at all until you have first made clear to Children deserve a chance to create the messes they yourself that your love for the child in question is holding firmly, swelling warmly in your heart. Then, whatever you do will be as nearly right as it can't make at home, so dress your kids in their worst is possible for human judgement to be. clothes and bring them to MESSY FUN DAY. That's advice from Angelo Patti, a 19th century educator. Brought to The chance for your children to: you by the Kiwanis Club of and radio station a Finger paint SCRIPT #2-30 seconds Make mud pies Make play dough When children try your soul, as they will; when they cause you grief, as they do: when they rouse your anger, as is their way: when they Put on clown make up reduce you to tears, as often happens, love them. Build dams in Laurel Creek Don't bother about anything at all until your love for the child in Build working models of volcanoes question is holding firmly, swelling warmly in your heart. Then, whatever you do will be as nearly right as it is possible for human Throw water balloons judgement to be. Draw chalk pavement pictures That's advice from Angelo Patti, a 19th century educator. Brought to Slide down a mud track you by the Kiwanis Club of and radio station Wash off in lawn sprinklers

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When children try your soul, when they cause you gnef; when they 11 am to 4 pm, Saturday, August 15 rouse your anger. as is their way, love them. Bedford Falls High School Don't bother about anything until your love for the child is swelling warmly in your heart That's advice from Angelo Patti, a 19th century educator. Brought to The Kiwanis Club of Bedford Falls is not responsible you by the Kiwanis Club of and radio station for permanent stains on clothing The club is responsible for providing fun to messy children of all ages.

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6 1 24 Sample flyers for distribution

Winning Ways with Children When Eating Out What One Person Can Do To Prevent Child Abuse

Eating out wilt young children can be a stressful experience. Restaurant erroloyees get First, ask yourself how you are doing as a parent.Hug your nervous, and parents are on edge, never knowing quite what to expectI,, staying home the answer/ child every day.

Here are some tips from expenencecl parents to make your eating out expenence more Arrange to have a speaker on child abuse come to your PTA enjoyable (oral!. or adult Sunday school class. 1. Choose a "chlid-friendly" location.Some restaruants are simply more suitable for young guestsfast food places, family.style restaurants, "coffee shops, or sidewalk Call your local Department of Social Services and ask for the cafes, for example. You will feel more relaxed about dining and you'll often get more current child abuse statistics. Share that information with ; help keeping your child(ren) happy. your General Assembly representative and/or local council 2 Phone first.If you are going to a restaurant for the first time, call ahead to make sure member. children are welcome. Ask if they have high chairs or booster seats, if not, you can take a dip-on teat that fits most tables or improvise a booster seat by wrapping a couple of Learn to recognize the signs of child maltreatment and know old telephone books with contact paper. Find out if you can place your order before you your local child abuse hot lines. arrive to cut down on waiting time once you are there.

3 Bring your qwn....Youknow your child best.If he needs special equipment. like a Reach out to neighbors or relatives with children. Offer to bottle or cup with a spout, bnng it along Diversions in the form of snacks or toys can babysit or invite them over for coffee. keep your little one occupied until your meal comes.

4 Keep it as familiar as possible. it y,ourchild eats fate or is not used to a vanety of Volunteer time in a child crisis emergency shelter, parenting toor,s, order a small portion of a food he es know. split dinners between two or more support program, drug abuse prevention/treatment program, children, or bnng along peanut butler and jelly.It will cost you less, waste less, and in all or shelter for the homeless. likelihood, your child will be happier .1 so will youll

5. Arrive early.Try to get to the restaurant at an off-peak time This way you can avoid Talk to your employer about sponsoring a parenting long waits and crowded conditions workshop foremployeesduring lunch time. 6 Try to sit by a window.The actrvity outside can provide novelty for your child while Consider joining a child abuse prevention organization in you are waiting to be served. your community. 7 The quick fix.If you could not order ahead of time, ask if there are foods that can be prepared quicklyIf you must wait for your fcod, one parent can take a restless child for April is Child Abuse Prevention Month: Join concerned a short walk to the lobby or perking lot. citizens all over the country by displaying a blue ribbon on Every time you eat out at a restaurant, it is a learning expenence for your young child your lapel, front door, or car antenna. and you. Mat does not work one lime may work the next. Rest assured, as you both get better at it, there will be better days and better restaruant expenences ahead Post this list on your refrigerator and share it with 5 friends. Avautea apq werpted e we trorn CMC, 4mewtan ElAby MegAnne Jtre 1990 Virginia Coalition for Cluki Abuse Prevention

What To Ifo In The GroceryStore To Guidelines for Parents Help Kids Behave... The National Institute of Mental Health asked the following question of 50 parents whose Plan Ahead children had become well-adjusted, productive adults* +Check Attitudesls your child toot Ired or hungry to shop'? Are you? Ifyes.postpone your trip or find a sitter. Based on your personal experiences, what is the best advice you can give new parents about raising children? Agree on RulesBefore entering the store: "Stayclose to the cart." "Use your quiet voice. Love Abundantly. The most DevelopMutual Respect.Actm a Agree on RewardsForgood behavior: Keep it important task is to love and really respectful way toward your children simplechoice of one snack food or a stop at the park. care about your child. This gives him Say 'please" and 'thank you," and Promise to read a nook or playa game at home. or her a sense of security, belonging. apologize when you are wrong. and support.It smoothes out the Children who are treated with respect At The Store Makea game of it--Who can see the potatoes or soap first? rough edges of society. will know now to treat you and oters Do you remember what animal milk comes from? Who is respectfully wearing red? What foods start with a "B"? Discipline Constructively. Give clear direction and enforce limits on your Really Listen. Ibis means giving Involve the child in the shopping"Should we buy apples child's behavior. Emphasize 'Do this" your children undivided attenbon, or oranges? Corn flakes or raisin bran?Popsicles or icc instead of 'Don't do that." putting aside your beliefs and trying to cream? understand your children's Spend Time With Your Children. Play-1 see something" in the checkout lane: ask the chikl Play with them, talk to them: teach to guess what itis. Offer Guidance. Be briefDon't give them to develop a family spirit and speeches. And don't force your + Praise your child"You are so helpful!" "You arcmaking give them a sense of belonging. opinions on your children. good choices today!" Give The Needs Of Your Mate Foster Independence. Gradually If All Else Fails Priority. One parent put it this way allow children more freedom and Ignore inappropriate behavior unless It becomes dangerous, 'A husband and wife are able to be control over their lives. One parent destructive, embarrassing to you, or annoying toothers. successful parents when they put their said. 'once your children are old 4. Remove a child who is out of controltake him to the marriage first. Don't worry about the enough, phase yourself out of tie restmorn or out of the store. Tell himquiet ly. eyeball to children getting 'second best' picture. but always be near when they eyeball, that his behavior Is totally unacceptable. Child-centered households produce need you neither happy marnages nor happy Wait, saying nothing else, for the child to calm down. Then children." Teach Your Children Right From ask if he is rrady to try again. Wrong. They need to be taught basic + Gohome If the child cannot calm down. Find a sitter and Be Realistic. Expect to make values and manners so they will get return alone. mistakes Be aware that outside along well in society. Insist they treat influences such as peer pressure will others with kindness, respect, and Remember: Kids will be kidsthey are not perfect! increase as children mature. honesty. Set personal examples of moral courage and integrity

17?.5 Sample flyers for distribution

I Commit To Be The Best Parent I Can Be I will use one of the following communication tips every day for the next ten days.

Signature Communication Tips for Parents and Kids "You never listen to me" is a complaint heard as often from children aF parents. Good communication helps children and parents to develop confidence, feelings of self-worth, and good relationships with others. Try Sources these tips. of Information Teach children to listen...gently touch a child before you talk...say his/her name. Contact the organi/ations listed below for advice, Speak in a quiet voice _whisper sometimes so children have to listenthey information on state/provincial/local contacts, or like this. Look a child in the eyes so you can tell when they understand...Bend or sit catalogs of other materials available for puithase. down...Become the child's size. Prictice listening and talking...Talk with your family about what you see on hear on the radio or see at the park or store. Talk with your children National Committee for Prevention of' Child Abuse about school and their friends. 332 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 16(X) Respect children and use a courteous tone of voice.If we talk to our children as we would our friends, our youngsters may be more likely to Chicago, Illinois 60604-4357 seek us out as confidants. UNITED STATES Praise children for cooperating with you or their siblings, for doing those little things that are so easy to take for granted. Phone: (3 I 2) 663-3520 Use Door Openers that invite children to say more about an incident or their feelings: "I see." 'Tell me more." "No kidding." "Really." Institute fOr the Prevention of Child Abuse Praise builds a child's confidence arid reinforces communication Unkind words tear children down and teach. them that they just aren't good enough 25 Spadina Road Children are never too old to be told they are loved. Saying "I love you" is Toronto, Ontario M5R 2S9 important. Writing it in a note provides the child with a reminder that he can hold on to. CANADA Give your undivided attention when your children want to talk to you. Don't Phone: (416) 921-3151 read. watch T.V., fall asleep, or make yourself busy with other tasks. Ohio League Agaimst Child Abuse 615Copeland Mill Road Westervil le, Ohio 43081 UNITED STATES Phone: (614) 899-4710 What To Say (or do) When Parents Abuse Their Children in Public

1 "He seems to be trying your patience." 2. "Is he tired? Does he need a nap?" 3 "She has beautiful (eyes)." Get the parent in a more positive mood. 4. "My child used to get upset like that." 5. "Children can wear you out, can't they? Is there anything I can do to help?" 6. Strike up a conversation with the adult. See if you car re-direct his/her attention away from the child. 7. Sympathize with the parent. i.e."Isn't it amazing how children think they can get what they want by kicking and screamingr 8. "My son behaves like that sometimes. and I.. -111 9. If you are concerned about the physical safety of the child. alert the store manager , 10 Divert the child's attention (if he is misbehaving), by talking to him, Program Development Department engaging him in conversation. Kiwanis International 11 Praise child and parent at first opportunity. 3636 Woodview Trace 12.If the child is in danger, offer assistance. For example, it the child was left unattended in a grocery cart, go stand by the child until the Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196 parent returns. USA 13. Find something positive to say about the child to the parent. "Your child is beautiful," or "What pretty hair she has." 14. "Looks like you're having a rough day Is there anything I can do to (317) 875-8755 Worldwide help?" (3I 7) 879-0204 FAX 15. "Looks like your little boy is giving you a hard time Try to relieve tension ark; perhaps open up some communication 16If you ..now the parent, offer to watch the child while she/he takes a break, gets a drink, etc Virginia Child Abuse Prevention Month Coalition 126

8 YCPO #11 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Shaken Baby Syndrome

MR. Young children can be injured There are seven points that need to The Problem through these actions because they be communicated: differ physically from older children John would never have struck his and adults. A young child's head is Never shake a child who is under baby. Even that night when she started larger in proportion to his body, and the age of two. crying at I:(X) in the morning and was the neck muscles are relatively weak. still wailing at 3:30, he didn't want to The brain is covered with less myelin Always provide support for an hurt her. He just wanted her to quiet (the fatty substance that encases nerve infant's head. down. In his frustration, he shook her; fibers), and there is more space Avoid games and activities that and she did quiet down. When she between the brain and the skull. Thus, cause unnecessai y back-and-forth started to cry once more, he shook her shaking a young child mu es a less movements of a baby's head. again, and she dropped off to sleep. protected brain through a larger space, But she never woke up. causing a greater impact. The result is Protect toddlers from repetitive or John, like many parents, relatives, bleeding in the brain, which can cause severe falls as they learn to walk. and baby-sitters, didn't realize just damaging pressure. how fragile an infant is. His child Know what to do if a baby won't became a victim of "Shaken Baby stop crying. Syndrome," or SBS, which affects Make sure other care givers know mor, than 50,000 young children in these precautions. the United States each year. Some The Solution children die, while others are Kiwanis clubs can help prevent Immediately take a baby who has permanently handicapped with Shaken Baby Syndrome by educating been shaken to the emergency blindness, paralysis, seizures, or parents and other care givers. room. mental retardation. Broken bones and Between one quarter and one half of dislocations are also possible. the American public doesn't know that This information can be distributed Shaking a baby vigorously for any shaking an infant can cause brain through brochures, parenting cards, reason can cause brain damage. The damage or death, according to the print ads, and radio or television shaking may reflect the caregiver's Ohio Research Institute on Child messages. frustration or may be intended to Abuse Prevention. Simple, direct emphasize a disciplinary measure. education efforts can greatly reduce However, Shaken Baby Syndrome the number of uninformed care givers. may also result from play activities, such as repeatedly tossing an infant up in the air, vigorous bouncing on the knee, spinning a child, or carrying a child while jogging. Available Materials Club Activities Use the order form on page 7 of this bulletin to order the following materials from the Ohio Research Institute on Child Abuse Prevention. A club planning to address Shaken Baby Syndrome should start by seeking Out partners tbr an education effort: the local hospital, prominent Print Public Service AnnouncementsAseries of three black and white print ads pediatrician, health department, and/or (81/2" x 11") showing an anguished adult who has shaken and injured a baby. Ready committee for prevention of child for reproduction. Available in English and Spanish. abuse. The club has the ability to get the "Don't Shake Babies" message out to the community, but it needs at least one of these partners to ensure the 'Mrs. Duncan credibility of the message. Furthermore, it is vital to get this told me to feed message to parents as early as possible in the life of the child. The Ohio little Billy, to LeaQue Against Child Abuse recommends working with a hospital bathe him and so that parents leave the hospital knowing the dangers of shaking their play with him. baby. Once the club has identified the I wish she had doctor, government official, or child abuse expert who will act as the told me not spokesperson, the campaign can be planned. The objective is to to shake him.' communicate the basic "Don't Shake e ot, Babies" message to everyone in the Dbes community and to provide more x",- 7'r +rage`f

comprehensive information about SBS :NrEr a4 t7: teark and how to cope with a crying baby to syre:/v 4V/ ;CI, krt,nte ,..P.aifq t4int parents and other care providers. cal Nasp The materials clubs can use in this a Ctr effort include a large number of items. A brochure, ready for reproduction, is NEVER included on pages 5 and 6 of this Shake a Baby service bulletin and sample radio scripts appear on page 4. Described below are materials available from the Radio Public Service AnnouncementsAseries of three 30-second radio PSAs on Ohio Research Institute on Child broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape, suitable for local tagging. A cassette tape of all Abuse Prevention. An order tbrm for three announcements (with an Ohio League local tag) is also included. these materials appears on page 7.If a club works with a hospital, it may want to discuss setting up a complete Television Public Service AnnouncementsAseries of three 15-second television project with follow-up cards and PSAs on a broadcast quality one-inch videotape, suitable for local tagging. A VHS tracking through a computer program. videotape of all three announcements (with an Ohio League local tag) is also Information on such a program is included. available from the Ohio Research Institute on Child Abuse Prevention (write: Ohio Research Institute on Child Abuse Prevention, 615 Copeland Mill Road, Suite 2-E, Westerville, OH 43081: or call: 614/899-4715). 1 ?8

2 Crying: What Should I Do? Parenting CardSuggests actions that may end the crying, urges patience, and warns to never shake a baby. Heavy card stock, 5"x 8. Localization tag for orders of I (X)0+. Available in English or Spanish.

Crying: What Should I Do? VideotapeA seven-minute tape that tells parents what they can do when their hahy cries. A VHS tal,e that can he played in offices of doctors and medical clinics or loaned out hy libraries, video stores, hospitals,or clinics.

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Shaking a baby can cause blindness, permanent brain damage, even death. Please, never shake a baby. Radio Public Service Announcements Type (double-spaced) copies of these radio scripts and take them to yourlocal radio stations. Ask them to read any of the public service announcements to promote the dangers of shaking babies.

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Every year young children are paralyzed, blinded, or killed It happens to every parent ... The baby starts crying, and you do because people don't understand how dangerous it is to shake a all the right things: you change her diaper, burp her, walk IA ith baby, ... or toss one in the air, ... or bounce one on a knee. Infants her, feed hcr, rock her. ... but nothing works. She keep., crying. have large, heavy heads, weak neck muscles, and very fragile The longer your baby cries, the louder it seems, and the mor, upset brains. Shaking that wouldn't bother an older child can kill a you become ..until you feel like you're going to explode. younger one. So please,don't shake your baby! Protect your baby and yourself (lave a friend take over. Or put This message brought to you by radio station and the the baby in her crib and go to another room. Kiwanis Club of A message from (radio station) and the Kiwanis Club of ill 15 Seconds 11115 Seconds Parents of young children, please remember: The baby keeps crying, no matter what you do. And the crying An infant's head is very large, and his neck muscles are weak. starts driving you crazy. The baby's in hyst-rics, and you're Repeated or violent shaking or bouncing can cause brain damage headed there, too. So,don't shake your baby! Move away before you pop. Call a friend to take over. Or put A message from (radio station) and the Kiwanis Club of your baby in his crib.

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Don't do something that could blind, paralyze, or even kill your EN10 Seconds baby.Don't shake your baby. When the baby won't stop crying, don't let it get to you. Call a A message from (radio station) and the Kiwanis Club of _ . friend. Or put your baby in his crib. A message from (radio station) and the Kiwanis Club of

Instructions The page to the right is a brochure, ready to be printed. To use this master, remove the staples in the gutter between the pages, cut along the fold. and then have the brochure printed, double-sided. Have the printed brochures folded like business letters (#10 letter fold), with the panel that reads "Don't Shake a Baby" as the cover.

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Crying: What Should I Do? Parenting Card $.20 I,ocalization tag for orders of I()00+ 4

Never Shake a Baby Poster $1.00 16" x 20"

Never Shake a Baby Posters $2.00 81/2"x l "set of 5 posters

Crying: What Should I Do? Videotape $99.00 7-minute VHS tape

Multi-media PackageEnglish $325.00 Includes TV PSAs, Radio PSAs, Print PSAs, and 10 posters (16" x 20")

Multi-media PackageSpanish $325.00 Includes TV PSAs, Radio PSAs, Print PSAs, and 10 posters (16" x 20")

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(317) 875-8755 Worldwide (8(X)) 879-4769 North America (317) 879-0204 FAX 136 PO #12 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Parenfs Anonymous

Given support and proper A Parents Anonymous group is The Problem intervention, the majority of parents often the first step a parent takes in with problems can keep their families seeking help to control anger directed In 1990, an estimated 2.5 million intact, stop unwanted parenting toward his or her children. A PA group incidents of child abuse and neglect behaviors, and begin healing. offers a safe atmosphere where parents were reported to child protective discuss what works with their kids and services agencies in the United States. what doesn't. Each individual can That figure represents a 105 percent examine his own behavior and choose increase over the number of reports in The Parents more humanistic options in parenting. 1980, a mere 10 years ago. It is important to note that in some Anonymous 80 percent of reported child abuse Solution cases, overwhelmed, stressed parents Kiwanis and were alleged to have abused their Parents Anonymous, Inc. helps children. Given the current economic families by offering free, Parents and social pressures facing many professionally facilitated, peer-led families today, parents are often support groups for parents with abuse Anonymous confronted with stresses that challenge problems. The philosophy of the Kiwanis clubs can work with Parents their ability to cope. Many families organization is that parents have the Anonymous chapters in their mission struggle financially and, as a result, are ability to heal themselves by seeking to prevent child abuse and neglect. unable to provide adequate child care solutions to their problems within There is also a need to start new PA or even meet the children's basic themselves. support groups in many areas. needs. In other cases, child abuse In 1991, Parents Anonymous, or The first step a club should take is results when parents have never PA, served 30,000 families through to contact a state or local Parents learned how to be good parents. more than 1,200 support groups. Anonymous affiliate. A list of Experts believe that the majority These groups meet in schools, chartered state and provincial of parents with abuse problems were hospitals, community centers, organizations appears at the back of abused as children, physically, churches, and a variety of other sites. this bulletin. If your club is outside the emotionally, and/or sexually. The In addition to the traditional United States and Canada, or in a state "learned" behavior becomes the mode parent-support model, PA has created without a chartered affiliate, complete by which parents resolve conflict, special groups for teenagers, various the coupon on the last page of this communicate with their children, and ethnic groups, prison inmates, and bulletin and send it to the Parents even discipline them. Unlearning the grandparents. There is also special Anonymous National Office. The behavior is the first step in stopping programming for children connected office will tell you who is conducting child abuse and creating healthier to some support groups. PA groups in your area or provide environments for children. information on the process to start a PA support group.

137 When a club's committee for Adopting an OfficeTheParents Parent AidesParentAides are Young Children: Priority One contacts Anonymous state and affiliate offices trained, professionally supervised the local Parents Anonymous chapter, often need more help to give adequate individuals who assist parents whose it can: support to local PA groups. A club or children are at risk of abuse or neglect. division could provide volunteers to They visit families and help parents Meet with leaders of the PA help with general office tasks, arrange understand the developmental stages chapter to discuss the needs of the for members to share their professional of their children, develop coping skills, PA program and how the club or expertise (legal, accountin, increase communication, and use division can help. management, publicity), raise funds, or community resources. A Kiwanis club help set up a "support Council" of could help set up a Parent Aide Invite a PA representative to speak companies that are willing to help the program or support an established at a club meeting. PA organization. program with funding or volunteers. To learn more, contact the National Ask if a local PA group would Public Awareness CampaignTohelp Parent Aide Association, 332 S. allow a member of the committee Parents Anonymous make the Michigan Avenue, Suite 1600, to attend a meeting of the PA community aware of what PA does and Chicago, IL 60604-4357. Phone: group. its presence in the community, clubs (312) 663-3520. Develop a plan to help the PA could develop and distribute flyers, chapter and present it to the club's ask for public service ads in Adapt a PAGroupCertain costs are board of directors. newspapers or on radio and television, involved in running a Parents sponsor a parenting event, or establish Anonymous group, and a club could Kiwanis support can taLe many forms. a speakers bureau. For additional help with these expenses. In addition, Most Parents Anonymous chapters information on public awareness a club could work with the group's need financial assistance, volunteer activities, request service bulletin MEP facilitator to offer assistance to support, and additional publicity. #I0 from the Program Development members of the group, such as helping Department of Kiwanis International. to pay medical expenses for a child, transportation to a doctor's office, or Speakers BureauAclub could help searching for a job. set up and publicize a speakers bureau Support Projects featuring PA leaders and experts on Printing--Handouts for groups, Child CareProvidechild care for various parenting issues. newsletters, and other small printing Parents Anonymous groups that don't jobs could be done by a Kiwanis club have the resources to conduct StresslineManychapters of Parents member to reduce the PA chapter's children's groups. This would Anonymous and the National expenses. eliminate an obstacle for parents, Committee for Prevention of Child enabling them to attend group Abuse have established phone lines Public Service AnnouncementsA meetings regularly. The club could hire that parents can call for advice or club or division could work with a PA a I i ce n se d, trained child care worker or support. Clubs that want to set up a chapter to create and distribute print, use members of the club to provide parent stressline in cooperation with audio, or video public service this service. Parents Anonymous can contact the announcements. Ohio PA office to learn how it TransportationTransportation organized its stressline. VideotapesManyexcellent tapes on problems keep some parents from parenting issues arc available that a getting to PA meetings. Club members Special EventsAPA group could use club could purchase and loan to could give rides to parents who need Kiwanis support for an event outside members of local PA groups. Or, a them or set up a bus system that would the PA meeting that would allow the club could support the production of a pick up all the parents in the group. PA parents to do something special tape by a PA chapter that answers a with their families. This coUld be a need they feel has not been served by a picnic, a "family expedition" to a professional production. tourist attraction, or a "messy fun day" for the children. For more information Family SupportAclub could offer to on possible activities, request the give whatever assistance a family Family Day Kit and service bulletin needs. Volunteers could visit and help M EP #10 (see section on parent with the children, provide support) from the Kiwanis transportation, help set up a family International Office. budget, or give gifts on holidays.

2 138 DinnerA per-plate dinner is often Flea MarketThe items collected Fund Raising successful. Find a theme. Try to keep may have very little value, but quantity costs to a minimum by soliciting and location are important. The more Kiwanis clubs could support a in-kind donations of food, printing, a items collected and the busier the Parents Anonymous organization by facility, or even a speaker. Combine location of your market, the more developing a fund raiser to benefit PA. the contacts of the Kiwanis club and money you will raise. Linking Kiwanis resources with the PA the PA mailing list to launch ticket cause could create a high-profile event sales. BingoThis has proven to be a good that garners great community support, fund raiser for several Parents raising public awareness as well as RaffleDeclare that all proceeds will Anonymous organizations, and it money. This event could be targeted go to support Parents Anonymous and requires a minimum investment of for April, which is Child Abuse solicit oneor a fewexpensive time and people. The first step is to Prevention Month. Listed below are items that can be awarded as prizes. find out how many bingo games some possible events, but there are Sell tickets for $1 to $5. already operate in the area. The second many other possibilities. Form a is to attend several to learn what the committee of Kiwanians and PA AuctionThe value of the items local bingo customs are. supporters and develop a fund raiser collected for an auction can vary that takes the best advantage of the tremendously, but the people who Car WashesWhile there are resources you have and will "sell" well come must be interested in many of probably more effective ways to raise in your community. the items on the block. The auctioneer money, a car wash is an excellent needs to be a professional. Consider ice-breaker, involving Kiwanians and selling low-cost tickets ($1.00) as a PA members in an enjoyable, relaxing mechanism for Kiwanians to push activity. attendance and to cover basic expenses. Then, all the funds raised during the auction can go to PA.

MEV Parents Anonymous State Organizations To learn more about Parents Anonymous and PA organizations in your area, contact one of the state or provincial organizations listed below or contact the Parents Anonymous National Office. A coupon to send to the national office appears on the last page of this bulletin. Canada PA Alaska PA Connecticut PA Idaho Tongas Community Counseling 60 Lorraine St. Panhandle Health Dept. PA Alberta Center Hartford, CT 06105 2195 Ironwood Holly Yates. Vol. Coord. 222 Seward Street. Ste. 202 (203) 523-5255 Coeur d'Alene. ID 83814 Suite #220, 6658 St S.W. Juneau, Alaska 99801 PA Delaware (208) 667-3481 Calgary. Alberta T2P 3K7 (907) 586-3585 ext. 306 (403) 263-6663 124 CD Senatorial Dr. PA Illinois PA Arizona Greenville Place Children's Home & Aid Society PA Quebec 2701 N. 16th St.. #316 Wilmington. DE 19807 of Illinois CP 186 Phoenix, AZ 85()06 (302) 654-1102 1122 N. Dearborn St. Suce Place D'Arms Chicago. IL 60610 (602) 248-0428 PA Florida Montreal. Quebec (312)944-3313 H2Y 308 PA Arkansas Mount Vernon Square (5141288-5555 SCAN Volunteer Services 1106 Thomasville Road PA Indiana P.O. Box 7445 Suite M Prevention of Child Abuse PA New Brunswick Little Rock. AR 72217-7445 Tallahassee, FL 32303 Jefferson Plaza Box 1534, Station A (501) 372-7226 (9(4) 488-5437 I Virginia Ave.. Ste. 40 I Frederiction. New Brunswick Indianapolis. IN 462()4 PA California PA (;eorgia Canada E3B 502 (317)634-9282 (506) 450-4357 179 Los Ranchitos Rd. Council on Child Abuse San Rafael, CA 94903 1401 Peachtree St.. NE. #14(( PA Iowa United States (415) 479-9338 (ask for PA) Atlanta. GA 30309 2014 38th St. (404) 870-6565 Des Moines, IA 50310 PA Alabama PA Colorado El Paso Health (515) 279-2755 Council for Parenting & Department PA Hawaii Protecting Children 501 N. Foote Ave. 45-955 Kamehameha P.O. 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months to several years. This also The Problem builds a network of mutual support Long-Term among the members of the class. Babies don't come with instruction Studies indicate that these programs Parenting manuals. Yet one of thc biggest jobs a have a tremendous positive effect on Education person can ever face is raising a child. the families: often ending abuse, That job looMs even larger to someone improving communication, and Programs who has no network of experienced contributing to the self-esteem and The programs described in this family members and friends who can later academic success of the children. section are not likely to be funded and give advice and support through the Less intense programs that do not administered by oneor even many minor crises of child rearing.It use a professional facilitator also have severalKiwanis clubs. They are can prove an impossible task for had a positive effect. Studies show designed to fit into a family services someone who never had a model of that even some printed materials can organization, and most clubs will want good parenting, or who is. in many affect the behavior of parents. to work with one or more partners who ways, still a child herself. A club could develop its own have expertise, facilities, and a greater These are the problems facing parenting education program. A understanding of parents' needs. many new parents today: a lack of survey of parents and child-centered What a Kiwanis club brings to the support, knowledge, and maturity. The experts would produce a list of topics development of a long-term parenting result is that many children in our that should be covered. Various education program will vary by society are in danger. In the short experts and more experienced parents community. It may function as the term, they face the possibility of abuse could be asked to address the chosen catalyst to draw the right peopie into a that damages them physically and topics and find printed resources for discussion on parenting education: emotionallyundoubtedly leaving the "student" parents to read. The club from that discussion will emerge the permanent scars: in the long term, they could recruit parents through mailings commitment to start a program. The are likely to become more unhappy or distribution of flyers. club may survey the need in the and even less able to cope than their Rather than start from scratch. community and assemble an advisory parents. clubs can investigate the programs group that chooses the best program. described below that seem to best fit In many cases, it will make a financial the community's needs and the club's commitment to purchase start-up The Solution resources. materials or send a facilitator to a To save the children of today, we training seminar. The club may also must help rebuild their families. For bring other community leaders and parents in crisis, there must be support business people into a supporting role. and education on how to be good parents. A number of organi/ations have seen this need and responded with education programs that provide support and guidance over several

1 141 The cost of materials for these MELD: Programs to The Nurturing Programs programs ranges from several hundred Strengthen Families Based on the philosophy that dollars to more than $1,(X)0. In The MELD program brings parenting is learned, these programs addition, some require travel to and together groups of parents who have are designed to prevent and treat child registration for training. Partial similar parenting needs, provides them abuse and neglect. The programs funding for these programs can often with pertinent intbnnation, and helps address the parents' need to be he found through government grants them to develop into supportive peer nurtured as they learn to nurture their that address abuse or family support. groups. Experienced parents volunteer children. There are six programs, for Foundations and businesses have also to facilitate MELD groups. After parents and child. ages birth to five; provided support for local careful selection, they receive four to 12; in adoiescence; for teenage implementation of these programs. extensive training and support from a parents and their families; for parents The relative costs of the programs will MELD-trained site coordinator. with special learning needs; and for certainly merit consideration, but a MELD offermilts and group foster or adoptive families. more important criterion will be which facilitators comprehensive curriculums Professional counselors need to run program best fits the community and with material in five areas: health, Nurturing Programs. The paragraphs helps parents. child development, child guidance, below give more detail on two of the family management. and personal programs. growth. The group chooses the topics Nurturing Program for Parents and EPIC to be explored, and every parent uses a Children Birth to Five YearsThis EPIC, or Effective Parenting workbook that reinforces the can he used at home for 45 sessions, Information for Children, provides information presented in the group adminis'-d by a home visitor; or it parenting education through a series of meetings. The group usually meets can be a 23-session group program run workshops. Parents share concerns. every other week for two years. by two facilitators (one for the parents support one another, and learn skills to Parents learn to respect and and one for the children). Parents strengthen their parenting role. appreciate the uniqueness of each learn about recognizing and Materials are also supplied for teachers child, to be sensitive to each child's understanding feelings, infant and to work into their curriculums on special needs and interests, and to child massage, nurturing parenting positive self-concept, responsible develop appropriate expectations for routines, alternatives to hitting, child behavior, and decision making. their children. development, and ways to build EPIC has four curriculums for MELD has six curriculums for new self-esteem and self-concept in parents parents of children: age zero to three, parents, young mothers, parents of and children. This program is also pre-kindergarten to grade three, grades growing families, Hispanic families, available in Spanish. four through sit, and grades seven parents of disabled/chronically ill Nurturing Program for Parents and thmugh 12. Each curriculum has children, and parents who are hearing Children Four to 12 YearsInthis material for approximately 15 impaired. 15-session group-based program. workshops. EPIC offers training to Each MELD program is sponsored parents and children increase their volunteers to learn how to run in agency or organization that empathy, learn nurturing ways to workshops (12 hours of training) and provides administration by a encourage appropriate behaviors, build provide child care (six hours) for MELD-trained "Site Coordinator." self-concept and self-esteem, and learn parents attending workshops. After this The Site Coordinator then trains (for to have fun as a family. This program initial training, the volunteers attend a 40 hours) the volunteer group is also available in Spanish. series of six workshops (two hours facilitators who lead MELD groups. There are certified consultants on each). EPIC also offers in-service MELD programs operate in more the Nurturing Program throughout the training to teachers so they can learn than 1(X) locations in Australia, United States who could work with how to integrate EPIC materials into Canada. and the United States. To Kiwanis clubs interested in setting up thcir required classroom activities. learn more about setting up a MELD Nurturing Programs in their To learn more about bringing EPIC program. contact: communities. lb learn more about the to your community, contact: MELD Nurturing Programs or to request a EPIC' Executive Offices 123 N. 3rd Street catalog, contact: State University College at Buffalo Minneapolis, MN 55401 Family Development Resources. Inc. Cassety Hall, Room 340 Phone: (612) 332-7563 3160 Pinebrook Road I 300 Elmwood Avenue Park City, Utah 84060 Buffalo, NY 14222 Phone: (801 ) 649-5822 Phone: (716) 886-63% 142

2 Parents as Teachers Interested clubs should request material on PAT and start discussing Parents as Teachers(PAT) is a Short-Term the potential with the school partnership between home and school administration and various business Programs designed to give children the best and community leaders who might possible start in life and to support There are a number of other later be asked to join an advisory parents in their role as the first parenting education programs of lesser council for the program. teachers of their children. PA' helps length and intensity that could be For more information onParents parents maximize the overall considered. The smaller size of these as 'Teachers,contact: development of their children in the programs reduces the training of the Parents as Teachers National Center first three years, thus laying the discussion lerr, and holds down the Marillac Hall foundation for school success and cost of these r.,,grams. Unfortunately, University of MissouriSt. Louis minimizing developmental problems this may also reduce their 8001 Natural Bridge Road which might interfere with learning. effectiveness or impact on parents. St. Louis, Missouri 63121-4499 Parents as Teachersis designed to Phone: (314) 553-5738 serve all parentsfrom single, teenage TheVery Involved Parent(VIP) mothers to two-parent, well-educated project was developed at the families.It involves home visits by University of North Carolina at trained "parent educators" who explain Healthy Start Charlotte. There are four VIP the stages of child development and TheHealthy Startprogram has programs, for teenage parents, parents offer timely, practical ways for parents been so successful in preventing child of preschoolers, parents with children to encourage their children's abuse and neglect in Hawaii that a in self-care, and parents with alcoholic development. Parents with children of (U.S.) federal grant is supporting the spouses. All VIP programs are the same age meet regularly in groups development ofHealthy Startprojects designed to help parents learn to share their experiences, common in several other states. This program parenting skills, manage stress, build concerns, frustrations, and successes. uses home visitors to link families to family strengths, and effectively use Periodically, there are screenings for other resources, reduce family stress, community resources. Parent manuals potential health problems or and model parenting skills. Kiwanis are $10. For information and prices on handicaps. There is also a referral clubs may be able to provide support training of leaders, contact the network that helps parents who need to families in theseHealthy Start Department of Human Services, special assistance beyond that programs. To learn whether there is a University of North Carolina, provided by PAT. Healthy Startprogram in the area, a Charlotte, NC 28223. Phone: (704) A club interested in bringing club would contact child protective 547-2171. Parents as Teachersto a community services or the family support office in will need to work with the local school the local government. A club The Center for Improvement of system or human services agency. interested in learning more about Child Caring (CICC) has developed The program requires employment of Healthy Startor possibly sending three education programs. The a program coordinator and enough someone to a training conference Confident Parent: Survival Skills parent educators to serve all the should contact: Training Programis designed for families with young children Hawaii Family Stress Center, parents of children ages two through (approximately one parent educator for Kapiolani Medical Center twelve and is designed for small every 30 families). In addition to an 2919 Kapiolani Boulevard aroups of parents meeting in ten administrative office, there needs to be Honolulu, HA 96826 two-hour sessions. TheEffective a play room and parent resource room. Phone: (808) 732-00(X). Black Parenting Programis designed The cost of this system is considerable, as a 15-week program with weekly but the result is better prepared sessions of three hours each. There is children, more involved parents, and a similar program for Hispanic parents greater success for children throughout titled Los Ninos Bien Educados.The their school careers. In fact, Missouri cost for training a leader for one of Commissioner of Education Robert E. these programs ranges from $450 to Bartman called PAT "Missouri's early $800. Parent materials are $15 to $17 dropout prevention program." for each parent, and other support materials are available. To learn more. contact C1CC, 11331 Venturi Blvd., Suite 103, Studio City, CA 91604. Phone: (818 ) 980-0903. 143 3 Parent Effecth'eness Training,or Guidance Ser vice, Publisher's Cooperative Evtension Newsletters PET, teaches non-authoritarian Building. P.O. Box 99. Circle Pines, The Kiwanis Club of Bruce. methods for resolving problems with MN 55014-9989. Phone: (612) Wisconsin purchased copies of children and suggests strategies to 786-4343 Parenting the First Yearfor all new prevent parent-child problems. PET is parents in the county it serves. The tautIht in eight three-hour sessions, and TheHow to Talk So Kids Will Listen I 2-issue newsletter is publication 321 a variety of training methods are used. kit has six sessions that address of the North Central Region, and The course is available in Spanish and children's feelings, cooperation, quantities can be order from the NCR English, and the parents' text has been alternatives to punishment, Educational Materials Project, B-10 translated into several other languages. encouraging autonomy, praise, and the Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University, Training for a PET instructor would be roles children play. A workshop Ames, IA 50011. Phone: (515) approximately $6(X), and copies of the requires a cassette, directions for a 294-8802. There are a number of PET hook for parents are $10. The leader, and pocket cards ($99 for audio other publications developed by other Center for Improvement of Child version, $190 for video). Book and regions or state offices of the Caring also offers training for PET workbook are $18 per participant. Extension Service, so clubs should instructors. Another workshop, similarly priced, is start by consulting with their local calledSiblings Without Rivalry.To Extension home economist. order materials, contact the Videotapes Negotiation Institute, Inc.. 230 Park Growing ChildThismonthly TheActive Parenting Discussion Avenue, New York, NY 10169. newsletter explains the development of Programuses a videotape of family Phone: (212) 986-5555. the child and suggests appropriate vignettes to illustrate positive activities.It follows the child through parenting skills. A discussion leader Raising America s Childrenis a series the first five years of life. For (supported by a guide book) facilitates of 10 videotapes that describes the subscription information, contact discussion about parenting skills. A needs of children from birth to six. Growing Child. 22 N. Second St., P.O. self-contained version requires no The tapes show children interacting Box 620. Lafayette. IN 47902-0620. leader. Parents receive a handbook of with parents, peers, and other adults. Phone: (800) 388-2624. reading assiQnments and action guide and experts comment on what is of family enrichment activities. In six observed. Each of the tapes costs $10, Parent and Preschooler Newsletter sessions, the program addresses being and a complete I 20-page discussion Designed for parents of children ages an active parent, understanding your guide is $6. To learn more about this one through six, this monthly child, instilling courage, developing program. contact the Frank Porter publication has both regular features responsibility, winning cooperation. Graham Child Development Center, (recommending books, suggesting and the cooperative family in action. University of North Carolina. CB kitchen activities) and addresses one or The tape forActive Parentingis $295, #8040. 300 NCNB Plaza. Chapel Hill, more specific problems in each issue. the discussion leader's handbook is NC 27599-8(W). Phone: (919) It is available in English ($25 per year) $20, and the materials ft)r each parent 962-7355. and English/Spanish ($35 per year). are $10. For more information contact Rates are $10 higher for subscribers Active Parenting, 810 Franklin Court, outside North America. Contact Suite B. Marietta, GA 30067. Phone: Printed Materials Preschool Publications. Inc., P.O. Box (8(X)) 825-0060. Child Behavior Management Cardson 1851, Garden City, NY. 11530-0816. 30 subjects have been developed by Phone: (516 ) 742-9557. Early Childhood STEP (Systematic the Ohio Research Institute on Child Training for Effective Parenting), for Abuse Prevention. These cards cover parents of children under age six, uses topics that range from crying and bed a videotape, leader's manual, and wetting to report cards and swearing. handbook for each participant. Its A display rack that holds 100 cards for armpi2,4,,, seven sessions address the stages of each of 15 topics can be placed in a development, understanding behavior. medical clinic, family services office. ILIILW1 self-esteem, communication. or other high-traffic areas. The rack cooperation, effective discipline, and costs $99, and the 1500 cards to fill the Program Development Department Kiwanis International social and emotional development. rack would cost $410 (shipping Wixidviexk Trace The videotape and leader's guide cost included). Contact the Research Indianapolis. IN 46268

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immunizations

the number of immunizations giN en The Problem per day. Son-ie parents have The Work/ Hea/th Organcanon esnmato that inadequate insurance or job benefits to 3.2 million children a year arc saved (min death It is always disturbing when a have their children immunized. And by immuncations. Further human:anon efforts young child is incapacitated by a others don't understand the need for can 1av1, lives of an additional 2 million children each year disease. It is heartbreaking when the immunizations. disease leaves the child maimed or Ideally, children should receive dead. But it is infuriating when the their immunizations as part of a infection could have been prevented comprehensive health care program. by simple immunization. But children cannot afford to wait as I3y age two, a child should be systems are created or improved. This Getting Started immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, bulletin outlines what a club can do to pertussis (whooping cough), polio- define and respond to local needs fOr myelitis. measles, mumps, rubella immunizations now. Gather the Experts (German measles), Hepatitis 13, and a To learn about immunization needs

severe flu (Haemophilus infuenzae Since / 989, the United States iiaa werien«,d in your community, you will need to type b). The worldwide averages for the laigeIt Meath's outbreak in two decades. gather the experts on health issues at a immunization have reached an llemeen 1989 and 1991. more than 55.000 meeting. Contact the heads of the impressive 80 percent, hut the actual cluldren contracted meacles, caul 150 died. county or district health department, immunization levels of two-year-olds EAperts estimate that 80 percent of these cases hospital pediatric departments, and are often considerably below this. For «ndd lutve been prevented by timely clinics that provide immunizations: laccinations. example. in the United States, the invite them to meet with members of immunization rate for two-year-old your Kiwanis club and other commu- children is under 60 percent. nity leaders to discuss the level of Generally, children don't get immunizations among two-year-olds. vaccinated because barriers prevent This can he an informal meeting which parents from making the arrangements. What Kiwanis helps you learn whether Kiwanis help These barriers include: lack of public is needed in the area of immunizations. transportation, incomplete medical Can Do There arc live basic questions that can records on the children, advance Working in partnership with he asked: appointment requirements, limited government agencies, medical office hours at the clinic, long waiting groups, and other concerned service times, requirements for comprehensive organizations Kiwanis clubs can make physical examinations, and limits on sure that all young children in the community are Mly immunized.

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1 I. Do parents understand the need for to an immunization site. Make sure they cannot afford it. The program i mmunizations? the survey is conducted in several that is supposed to help families different public places or neighbor- immunize their children may throw up Are immunization services readily 2. hoods and truly reflects the economic administrative barriers by setting hours available? and cultural diversity of the commu- that prevent working parents from 3. Are there barriers to receiving nity. bringing their children, requiring immunizations? appointments that must be made weeks in advance, requiring a medical Are immunizations free or low cost? 4. Build the Partnership exam, or scheduling appointments that 5. Is there a tracking system to make Armed with data, you can educate make families wait for hours. sure every child is fully immunized? community leaders and build a partnership or coalition to immunize More Immunization Resources young children. Invite business Limited personnel, equipment, space, Identify the Needs leaders, officers of service clubs and sites, vaccine, ultimately a lack of You may conclude that the first other civic organizations, government funding, may hamper efforts. thing the club should do is work with agencies and organizations that help the health department to gather families and children, clergy, doctors, TrackingTo make sure that every statistics on the number of children nurses, and other health providers. child is fully immunized by age two, under school age who need to be Explain the need for an immunization the coalition will need to develop a immunized. This will involve effort to make sure that every child is system to track the children who are gathering, records on the number of fully immunized by age two. Ask how born or move into the community. young children in the community they would be willing to help and who This will require a uniform, shared (comparing birth records, health would represent them at meetings of record system and a contact-with- follow-up procedure for every family records, census data, and schoo' an immunization partnership. records) and comparing them with young children. immunization records (from the health department, clinics, hospitals, and The coalition will need to identify pediatricians). Confidentiality of the CREATING THE which problems it is addressing and medical records will complicate this assign tasks to various coalition process, but you can develop PROGRAM members. In the sections below are reasonable estimates of the number possible strategies your club can offer of children needing immunizations. to implement. Planning the Components I11u, L'.S. ranks 561h worldwide in immunizing The program the coalition develops minority children and 17t11 (0 protecting all will depend or. the size of the commu- =MOP Ichildren against preventable diseases. nity, the level of need for vaccinations. PUBLICITY AND attitudes of families, and thc immuni- As you help the health department zation barriers identified by families. AWARENESS gather and analyze this data, you also There are four possible problems that ACTIVITIES can be developing a list of families to the partnership may have to address: contact a .)out having their children immuni;:ed. This experience may Education/Public AwarenessIn some Working with the Media provide insights about the need for a cases parents don't know why their Probably the best way to garner unified, comprehensive method of children should bc immunized. In heavy publicity for immunization maintaining immunization records and other cases, the challenge is publici- efforts is to ask one newspaper, radio tracking children. Discuss whether zing when and where immunizations station, and television station to join you could help the health department are available and perhaps offering the coalition or partnership and develop and put in place such a system. incentives to interest families. become official sponsors of the effort. A survey of families with young children will help you understand Gmater Access to Immunization Print Public Service AdsFirst, ask what parents know about the need Parents don't take their children to be lozal newspapers to run public service for immunizations, what has kept immunized because they don't have advertisements and op-ed pieces that thin from immunizing their children, transportation, they've moved from explain the need for immunizations and whether they would bring them one community to another, theyhave and outline the recommended no medical records on the children, or schedule. Then, ask them to run public

2 146 service ads for the immunization event Other Ways to Publicize Houses of nrshipAsk clergy to or new clinic hours where vaccinations Immunizations announce the availability of are available. FlyerCreate and print a flyer for immunizations or organize a phone program to all meinbers of the posting and distribution that News stofiesContact news directors congregation who have small children. announces where and when at radio and TV stations or city de ' vaccinations will be available and the editors at papers and arrange for news Direct ContactsSend letters to the recommended immunization schedule. stories and interviews on immunizing parents of every child who has Place the flyers in government and children. Use the statistics gathered received a birth certificate, been born private agencies that serve families. during the needs analysis and have a in a hospital, or been christeneo in the health clinics, child care centers and doctor or nurse explain what past three to four years. hpmes, churches, grocery stores, immunizations are necessary at each pharmacies. schools, toy stores, and age. any other place families might see it. Children it lw belthul in their booster shots are most hkelv to do so at 15 to 18 awnths. Press ConferenceHold a press BillboardsUse the All Their Shots conference to announce the results of While They're Thts billboard your needs analysis and developed by the Kiwanis recommendations for all parents. International Public Relations Schedule it for mid-morning on a Providing Incentives Department. The billboard conies in week day when no important events two sizes (a smaller in-the-city size EmertainmentArrange to have are planned. Use your best speakers and the standard size) and can be entertainment at the event. This could (preferably with experience in front of ordered from DeWitt Advertising for be a music or puppet group, story TV cameras) from the partnership as $20 and $35. An order form is in the teller, clown, magician, or theater spokespeople. Arrange for public back of this bulletin. troupe. officials or local celebrities to participate. AAP VideotapeThe American CelebrityFeature the star of a local Plan the agenda carefully so the Academy of Pediatrics has developed sports team, a radio or television entire event lasts no more than 20 a I 4minute video titled Before It's personality, or a famous mascot or minutes. Keep introductions short and Tho Late. Vaccinate that tells parents spokesperson (Ronald McDonald, get to your messages quickly. At the about the 'mportance of vaccinating Bugs Bunny, or Jeffrey the Giraffe, for end of the official announcements. their children. It can be shown at example). leave time for questions. Then, offer health clinics, government offices that individual interviews with your serve families, immunization events, LocatUm--Hold the immunization spokespeople. and.any other gathering of parents. event at a site that will draw children, Send an invitation to your press Available in English and Spanish, the such as a fast food restaurant, cor,f6-ence at least a week in advance. video can be purchased by playground, toy store, or movie theater. Follow up with a phone call. contacting: AAP Division of Public Education, 141 Northwest Point Existing EventIf there's an event that Radio PSAsGive radio stations typed Blvd.; Elk Grove Village, IL 60(()7; draws families every year, arrange to scripts for public service announce- (800) 433-9016. ext. 6757. make the immunization effort part of ments that remind parents about the the larger event. importance of immunizing children. Baby BottlesThe Kiwanis Club of Describe your immunization event or Nacogdoches, Texas, gives a baby Gire-AwaysSolicit donations from clinic location and hours. bottle to new parents that has printed businesses and coupons for free food on its side an immunization message. from fast-food restaurants. Then. Thlevision PSAsAsk television A club could have the immunization publicize and offer prizes at your stations to air the Kiwanis immuni- s,:hedule, clinic phone number, or. immunization event. Or. guarantee a zation public service announcements. address put on baby bottles. too. prize for the child or the family when Details about your local activities can the entire immunization schedule is he added to the end of the announce- BusinessesAsk employers to urge completed. ments. Simply borrow a tape from the thcir employees to immunize thcir Kiwanis International Public Relations children and announce the Department and ask each station to immunization event. If the company make its own copy, adding local holds employee meetings, ask to have information to the end of the a representative speak at one. announcement.

3 147 Post CanlsSeveralclub members wisest to hold the event at an existing PROVIDING could put together a post-card mailing health clinic and use additional space once every few weeks to remind in the building or block off the street to ACCESS families that it's time for another accommodate the expected crowd. check-up and immunization. Event. have been held in shopping malls, fair erounds, and parks. The Transportation atm HoursIfa clinic needs to open team that chooses the site, draws up If transportation to a health clinic additional hours in the evening or on a the floor plans, and makes the is the major harrier to immunization. weekend, volunteers can help with equipment list should include medical Kiwanis clubs can provide service re2istration, paperwork, and other personnel (for knowledge of vaccine directly or serve as the catalyst for supportive tasks. holding, preparation. and immuni- creation of a transportation system to zations), records-keepers (to plan the serve the needs of the community. paperwork processing system for the

1110111111111111Er event), and the people who will Rides by AppointmentIfappoint- Immunization oversee the greeting, waiting, and ment-by-phone or transportation- entertainment areas. request systems exist, a club could Event commit to providing a volunteer once Improving services and tracking Renting and BormwingThe a week to transport families to and may be the long-term solutions to necessary material will depend on the from immunization appointments. Or, increasing the level of immunization size, location, and style of the event. an on-request program could be among young children, but the Tables, chairs, ropes and stanchions. implemented so that requests would be community can "catch up" with and pipe and drape will probably be referred to the club. The volunteer children who are not immunized needed. Extension cords, lights, a driver would then work directly with currently by holding a large-scale small refrigerator, sink, tent, and the family to make arrangements. event. The purpose of an event is to portable rest rooms may needed for draw hundreds, or even thousands, outdoor locations. A sound system and Regular RoutesIna larger area, it of families to a special site tbr a small stage may he helpful. This might he necessary to schedule a one-day immunization program. This equipment should he lent to the event, regular rotation of routes. For will get children onto an immunization and that will require a committee of instance, the first Thursday of a month, track, and families can be instructed solicitors contacting businesses a driver would pick up families in the about where to go for future throughout the community. Make sure northern part of the county. The vaccinations. every contributor is listed on the flyers second Thursday would serve the handed out at the event, press releases, west, and so forth. Donathms of MaterialsCollecting and a large sign at the registration area. in-kind donations will be the first The day before the event, teams of Special City Bus--Ifa greater need for challenge. Chances are that the health volunteers should collect the items, transportation to a health clinic can he department and clinics will not have bring thein to the site, and set them up. documented, it may be possible to all the medical supplies (or a budget to Then. immediately after the event, the persuade a city to set up a special bus purchase them) for a large-scale event. same teams will take everything apart route one Saturday a month or one Target a specific number of children to and haul it away. night each week to cover the area immunize. Then, solicit supplies from Since medical served by the clinic. hospitals, pharmacies. and medical Staffing the Event personnel should handle only the supply companies. Purchasing aVanSome Kiwanis Paper, printing, and incentive medical concerns during the event. clubs have purchased a van for use by gifts also may be solicited. Kiwanis several groups will he necessary: health facilities that need to provide contacts should prove helpful for . Sign hangers to put up signs and transportation on daily basis. arranging these donations. posters that direct people to the correct street or parking area. Facilitv--Thelocation for the event Greeters at street corners or parking Client-Oriented Service should be easy to reach, have enough areas to direct families to the PhonesVolunteers can answer space to handle the expected crowd immunization site. phones, make appointments, and call (enter,inment/waiting area, families to remind them that it's time processing area, immunization area), to come in or make an appointment for rest rooms, facilities to prepare the next immunization. vaccines, and phone lines. It may be

4 1 48 3. Records keepers to register each These mailings also provide an organizations in the community, from family as it arrives (and behind- opportunity to survey the faniilies, the chamber of commerce to church the-scenes records keepers to learn what other health needs exist, groups. integrate this information into the and link them to services that can help. Personal meetings or closed health department system). briefing sessions for puhlic officials at 4. Waiting area attendants to help the beginning of the campaign will families find seats, provide children provide elected leaders an opportunity with games, puzzles, or other ADDITIONAL to prepare their responses. entertainment, give parents RESOURCES information on immunizations. and answer any questions. The coalition may conclude that the Fund Raising health system requires more resources Ila one-time fund-mising effort will 5. Escorts to help families move to the in order to provide additional provide the funds !Or needed medical immunization area. immunizations and accomplish its materials, the partner organizations 6. Assistants for the doctors and nurses. other objectives. The challenge will can work together on it. The more then be to develop those resources. people working on fUnd-raising, the 7. Departure clerks to thank the family greater the potential. The specific for coming, present any coupons or fund-raising activity needs to he one prizes, explain how to get future Advocacy that the entire coalition can support 11111111.111imtions (and perhaps qualify enthusiastically. for some other incentive gift). and The best long-term solution will he ask how future immunization events to change the regulations or funding CollectionElforts--Placing coin could be improved. formula for the health system in the community to ensure that immuni- cannisters in businesses (and later zations and other pritnary health care collecting them) or posting solicitors Follow-up are higher priorities. To bring about (perhaps with peanuts or happy face pins) at front doors or street corners After the immunization event. this kind of basic change. the coalition will need to educate the public and its can raise an iinpressive amount of mcnihers of the partite N hip or money ill one day. HO we ye r, the coalition should meet to evaluate the elected leaders and to keep the problem in the public mind until amount raised is directly related to the event and note improvements for nUmher of people involved. future effOrts. They also will need to changes are made. make plans to publicly thank donors Iligh-licket Events-Some MCa%IC%fithe moil terthus of flu.I OMMIM and workers in letters, newspaper ads, organizations raise funds with upscale and club ineetings. The partnership data/good doeake.Iii MVO. the I' S 26.527 «tie.% of Inea.ile. and it «Inied 91 events (dances, dinners. auctions) may want to hold an awards dinner to where a single ticket may he $50, thank supporters of the efftirt. $100, or even more. The two The immunization event also may challenges are to have contacts to sell set the stage for a discussion of how to The public awareness campaign can to the likely supp(n-ters of such an institutionalize the Unmunization use many of the strategies described event and to solicit successfully the Proeess It will give the health sYtein ahove, including press conferences. in-kind donations that keep expenses a large group of families that it NN ill public service announcements, and low. need to continue working with to make flyers. The messages to convey arc sure children are fully immunized. the lack of resources (supported by Low-Ticket EventsA sports event, Volunteers can help with the statistics) and ways the problem can chili cookoff, or concert can he an development and mailing of letters of he solved. Since the campaign will effective fund-raiser if' the coalition congratulations or thanks to the run over several months, the coalition can pre-sell enough tickets and children and their families. They can may want to divide the messages and publicize the event so heavily that the prepare reminder notices to he sent to focus on the pmblem at the beginning, general public responds with interest. families when the next vaccination is later shifting to addressing solutions. duc. This provides additional opportunities for publicity-garnering announcements. Also, the coalition can schedule community meetings, where everyone in the community is invited to come nd learn more. Representatives of the coalition can offer to speak to other

5 1 4 9 In-Kind Donations As a volunteer system develops, VideoTheAmerican Academy of it will be important to involve an Pediatrics is distributing a videotape If the needs identified are more increasing number of volunteers from titled "Before It's Too Late, office space and equipment, or more the community being served. This will Vaccinate." Aimed at parents, this sites, members of the coalition can give the neighborhood a sense of 14-minute video describes the organize teams to solicit assistance ownership in the clinic, and it will potentially deadly problem facing front companies. A company that increase the effectiveness of outreach American children lack of plans to upgrade thc level of its efforts.It is also important to protection from basic childhood personal computers or remodel its remember that volunteers horn out or diseases. Available in English and office may be persuaded to make a fade away, so a system tOr regular Spanish. Cost undecided. charitable contribution of its old recruitment and training mu c! he in equipment. place. Contact: AAP Division of Public FAucation ,4 majority al children Imho lam ked adequate 141 Northwest Point Blvd. antnuncwton vtAited a health (oare prot.nler itt Tracking Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 the past year Ina dui not receive any or all ()I Phone: 800/433-9016, est. 6757 the necesulry vaccinations. Tracking is probably the greatest challenge to developing an ongoing A company operating in a system that ensures all two-year-olds neighborhood targeted for a clinic site are fully immunized. In the United Video"AShot at the Future" is a might be willing to set aside some States, a number of health departments 30-minute tape that tells the story of a space for a clinic. Or, if there are on the state and county levels arc now measles epidemic in Philadelphia and several unrented store fronts on one trying to develop tracking systems that the coalition that formed to solve the block available from the same real use available computer and problems that led to the measles estate company, it may he willing to information resources. Members of outbreak. Very helpful to a coalition offer a site rent-free for a year. in the the partnership may be able to help in that is just forming. $5.00 tor postage hopes of drawing paying clients once such an etThrt. and handling. the block looks busier. In Lynchburg, Virginia, the Kiwanis Success in soliciting these club has worked on a tracking system Contact : donations would probably lead to a with the county health department for Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies need tOr additional donations of several years. The club developed a 409 12th St.. SW building supplies, wiring, electrical program it calls "Baby Saver" with a Washington. DC 20024 outlets, and light fixtures. And, of computer program for tracking Phone: 2021863-2490 course, volunteers would be needed to immunizations, a manual on its use. remodel the future clinic site. and publicity materials.It is now selling this kit tor $2,5(X). BrochureTheNational Immunization Campaign has Volunteers developed a 4-color brochure titled "10 Questions & Answers About How If the coalition is broad-based. to Help Protect Your Child From there will be several sources of Educational Getting Deadly Diseases." It answers volunteers for whatever needs are the ten most common questions and identified: mailings, phone support, Materials provides an immunization schedule records entry, appointments secretary. and card. Available in English and publicity coordinator, filing, cleaning Free VideoTheKiwanis Spanish. Price varies by quantity and painting, outreach efforts International Public Relations ordered. (door-to-door surveys, home visitation Department has a short program on programs), computer instruction. immunizations that it has edited to Contact: financial analysis, or management play four times on a single tape. The Right Choice. Inc. advice. tape lasts approximately an hour, making it easier fOr a health clinic to National Immunization Campaign use in a waiting room. Request copies P.O. Box 1960 of the tape from the Public Relations Maple Grove. MN 55369-0058 Department. Phone : (202) 338-7227

150 6 Public Awareness Campaign flyer Sample Poster

Parents: Protect Your Children Come to the Immunization Sensation

from These Nine Killers! Free immunizations for all children. Coupons to McDonald's for each participating child. Polio They crippled and killed kids for centuries. Not now. Your Autographs from Green Bay Packer Tom Robbins. child can be immunized Free balloons. Tetanusagainst all nine of these deadly diseases. Puppet shows and story tellers. Whooping Some of these killers attack Cough little babies. So, don't trait. Saturday, April 24 When your baby reaches two 10:00am 3:00pm Measlesmonths, take him in for his first vaccinations. in the K-Marl parking lot, 86th Street and Michigan Road Mumps If your child is already older, don't wait any longer. Start Saturday, May 8 immunizing him tomorrow. German 10:00am - 3:00pm MeaslesTo learn more or set up an appointment, call your family in the Walker Building, Monroe Street and 12th Avenue doctor or the county health Hepatitis B department at 555-4297. Protect your children from nine Free immunizations are Haemophilusavailable. childhood diseases and have a good time influenzae bDon't wait. with them, too!

For more intormation abOut immunizations. call 555-8929 Sponsored by thz Wesley Kiwanis club, K-Mart, the Walker Company. and the Sponsored by All Their Shots While They're Tots Lake County Health Department A campaign to immunize all the children in Iron County

Sample Press Release

For Immediate Release Contact: Escanaba Kiwanis Douglas Adams, Chairman 555-3421

All Their Shots While They're Tots

In Iron County, hundreds d children are unprotected from preventable diseases. accordng to a study by the Iron County Immunization Acton Partnership. Health expens recommend that every child should be immunized against nine common diseases by age two, WI more than 700 local kids between two and six aren't fully immunized Another 300 children under age two are already behind on their immunization schedules. 'We have the potential for a serious outbreak of a childhood disease. such as measles; declares County Health Commissioner Jim Meat 'We must lake action to protect them from these preventable illnesses that can dsable and killThe largest outbreaks cf measles in decades have occurred aver the past three years, infecting 55.000 childrefi and killing 150. The Immunization Partnership plans to develop a pudic education campaign that will culminate in a special immunization week Curing that week, immunizations nil be offered at sit% across the county. The Invntrization Partnership also plans to develop a tracking system to ensure that all children bom in !he county become fully immunized. The Iron County Immunization Partnership was formed by the Kiwanis Club of Escanaba three months ago to investigate the level of invnunizations among children In Iron County. Twelve organizations are now vi the Immunization Partnership, and spokesperson Jim Merit says they hope more organizations will loin. The next meeting of the Partnership MI be al the United Methods! Church of Escanaba. 114 S. Man St., at 730 pm on Tuesday. January 26. Everyone interested in helping the partnership is welcome For more information, contact Douglas Adams al 555-8787

71 5 1 BEST COPYAVAILABLE Sample Immunization Schedule Sample Proclamation

Childhood Vaccination Schedule ProdOmation of Immunization Month Age Vaccinalkm 'here are now nine contagious diseases for which effective childhoml 2 Months DTP (Diplithena-Tetant6.-Pertussh) r accrues exisi. Um% incr. three in ten infants and toddlers are piny ()t'V (Oral Polio Vaccine) ss ithout adequate childhood immunizations, leasing them at nsk tor 1 hb Haemophilus lite-threatening or disabling illnesses. Ilepatilic It This tragic toll of unnecessary outbreaks of preventable childhood 4 Months opv diseases n.,;st be reversedChildren can be vaccinated against measles. mumps. rubella, polio, diphtheria. pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus. haemophilus influenza type b, and hepatitis B through a series of shots Hepatitis 13 beginning as early as birth. We cannot wait until a child enters school to saccinate against these diseases: infants and toddlers are at highest risk 6 Months Ilach of us who cares for childrenfamilies and health care givers alikeand all of us who care about children as our most preciouc resource must make ihis commitment: none of our chIldren shall go without the 12 Months T13 'lest health protection so easily obtained through age-appropriate immunizations 15 Months MMR Measlec. Mumps. Rubella) During this special monthand throughout the yearwe must emphasize OPV the importance of childhood immunizations and take the necessary steps to 111b Booster make such inununizations as ailable to all infants and children.

4-6 Years Drr Booster (RV Booster Now. therefore. I. William B. Baggins. Mayor of Frodo City. do hereby proclaim May 1993 as 10-12 Years MMR second dose Child Immunization Month. 14-16 Years T.D (Tetanus Diphtherial Boosiei In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my hand this first day of April in the ear of our 1.0rd nineteen hundred and ninety-four.

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Sample Radio Public Service Announcements

All Their Shots While They're Tots

30 secondl Do you remember the stones of the old days when children were crippled by poho and killed by measles9 Well, the old days will be the new days if our children don't gel immunized.If you're not sure your kids are fully immunized, call your family physician or the county health department at 555-7249. All their shots while they're tots' A message from this radio station and the Iron County Immunization Action Partnership liseconds Yes, your boy may cry when he's immunized. Sure, the baby may be fussy for a day or two. But if they get their shots, they won't get hit by diseases that could leave them deaf, paralyzed, or even dead. Call 555-7249 for an appointment A message from this radio station and the Immunization Action Partnership.

15 seconds You can keep nine deadly diseases from ever bothering your baby. Just take your baby in for immunizations at 2. 4, 6, 12, and 18 months. To learn more or make an appointment. call 555-7249. A message from this radio station and the Kiwanis Club of Ironwood.

airsszniis. You can't give your kids the powers of Superwoman or Spider Man, but you can give them the power to fight off nine deadly diseases. Make sure they get fully Immunized. Call 555-7249 lor an appointment. A message from this radio station and the All Their Shots While They're Tots campaign.

L5_&_c_onds Polio cripple and kills. So do measles, tetanus, and six other preventable diseases. You can protect your children from all of them. Just make sure they're fully immunized Call 555-7249 to make an appointment A message from this radio station and the All Their Shots While They're Tots campaign Use this material to create a fact sheet that can be distributed to parents Immunization Fact Sheet Immunizations Immunizing children protects them from diseases that can kill or permanentlydisable (physically or mentally). Every year 3.2 million children survive because they have been immunized. Another 2million die because they were not immunized. Giving more than one vaccine at the same time will not increase reactions to theimmunizations.

Causes encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) in Diphtheria one out of every 1,000 who get it. This can cause Easily spread through coughing or sneezing convulsions, deafness, or mental retardation. Early symptoms are a sore throat, slight fever, and Of every 1,000 children who get measles, one or chills. two will die. Can interfere with swallowing and cause suffocation. A person not immunized with MMR (Measles, Can cause heart failure or paralysis if allowed to go Mumps, Rubella) vaccine will most likely contract untreated. the disease during his/her life. Can be prevented with the DTP (Diphtheria, Mumps Tetanus, Pertussis) vaccine. Causes fever, headache, and inflammation of the Tetanus (Lockjaw) salivary glands. resulting in swelling of cheeks or jaw. Enters the body through a wound. One out of every 10 who get mumps may develop meningitis (inflammation of the coverings of the Produces a poison which attacks the body's nervous brain and spinal cord). Sometimes causes system. encephalitis. Symptoms are headache, irritability, and stiffness in Can result in permanent hearing loss. the jaw and neck. MMR vaccine prevents this disease. Eventually causes muscle spasms in the jaw, neck, arms, legs, and abdomen. Rubella (German Measles) May require intensive hospital care. Most serious in pregnant women; with an infection In the U.S., three of every 10 people who get early in pregnancy, there is an 80% chance it will tetanus die from it. cause birth defects in the unborn child. It is preventable through the use of DTP vaccine. Symptoms include mild discomfort, slight fever for 24 hours, and a rash on the face and neck, lasting Perfussis (Whooping Cough) for two or three days. Highly conagious. MMR vaccine prevents this disease. Causes severe spells of coughing which can interfere with eating, drinking, and breathing. Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib Disease) Strikes one child out of 200 before age five and few Complications may include pneumonia, convulsions. or encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). after age five. More serious in infants under one year of age. In the U.S., about 65% of reported cases occur in children under age five. Causes pneumonia and infections of the blood, joints, bones, soft tissues, throat, and the covering In recent years. an average of 3.500 cases have been reported in the U.S. of the heart. Causes meningitis in about 12,000 children per It is preventable through the use of DTP vaccine. year; about one in four suffers permanent brain Polio damage, and about one in 20 dies. Serious cases cause paralysis or death. Hib vaccine prevents this disease. Mild cases cause fever, sore throat, nausea, Hepatitis B Virus headaches, and stomach aches. Pain and stiffness Infants born to HBV-infected mothers have up to an in the neck, back, and legs also occur. 85% chance of getting the infection. Can be prevented by immunization with OPV (oral HBV infection is spread within families and polio vaccine), a weakened strain of live polio virus communities. that's drunk in a liquid. Infection at birth or during early childhood can result Measles in long-term chronic illness. Highly contagious. Chronically infected person can develop chronic Causes a rash, high fever, cough, runny nose, and liver disease and a rare form of cancer. watery eyes, lasting for one or two weeks. HBV vaccine prevents this disease. Causes ear infections and pneumonia in one out of every 20 children who get it. Sources. U S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control

153 9 BEST COPYAVAILABLE Child Immunization Card Front Record Card for Parents Adapt this card to local needs. Make sure the immunization schedule Immunization Record Card is the one followed by your county health department. Put the name of Name Birth Date your club or coalition on the card. Then, print the card on heavy stock Use this card to keep track of your child's vaccinations. On each line, there is a recommended time for each vaccine. Write the date of each and distribute to families. vaccination next to the recommended age. If you fall behind. DON'T STOP. Please note that two alternate back Keep taking in your child until all lines are filled and immunizations are samples are provided. Sample A lists complete. immunizations by type; Sample B lists immunizations by date. Choose either List any allergies or reactions to vaccines here: sample to use on the back of your club's immunization record card.

Card Back Sample A

Record month/day/year for each vaccine.

DTP Hib (type MMR 2 mo. 2 mo. 15 mo. 4 mo 4 mo. 10 yr. 6 mo. 6 mo. 15 mo. 15 mo. Td 4 yr. 14 yr. Hepatitis B Polio 2 mo. Others 2 mo. 4 mo. 4 mo. 6 ma. 6 mo. 15 mo. TB Test 4 yr. 12 mo.

Card Back Sample B

Record the Dates of Your Child's Immunizations

2 Months 6 Months 4-6 Years D-T-P D-T-P D-T-PP'-Ost. Polio Hib Polio Boost. D=Diphthena Hib Hep. B Kb= Haernoptfts B Hep. B_____ 10-12 Years Hep. B=Hepatitis B 12 Months M-M-R M.,Measles 4 Months TB Test Ii=l+Aumps D-T-P 14-16 Years P=Pertussis Polio 15 Months D-T Booster R.Rubella Nib_ M-M-R T=Telanus Hep. B____ D-T-P Other TB.Tubemulosis Polio Hib Booster

10 154 Order Forms for VideoPSAs and Billboards To receive video PSAsor "All Their Shots While They're Tots" billboards, provided on each form. clip and mail the appropriate orderform. Addresses are

Immunization PSAs

ORDER FORM To receive video public service announcements on immunizations, mail thisrequest to: Public Relations Department, KiwanisInternational, 3636 Woodview Trace, Indianapolis, LN 46268-3196, USA.

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Kiwanis Club of:

13 Yes, in club wants to borrow a master videotape to have local stations make copiesof the Kiwanis immdnization PSAs. We will approach the following stations (identified bystation call letters):

Immunization Billboards

ORDER FORM To receive "All Their Shots While They're Tots" billboards, mail this request, alongwith a check, to: DeWitt Advertising, Inc., 1060 W. BuschBoulevard, Suite 102, Tampa. FI, 33612, USA. Indicate the quantity ofbillboards ordered in the blanks provided.

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My Kiwanis club would like to receive 5' x 11' (8-sheet size) immunization billboards at a cost of $20 cach. El My Kiwanis club would like to receive 9'7" x 21'7" (30-sheet size) immunization billboards at a cost of $35 each.

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Program Development Department Kiwanis International 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis. IN 46268-3196 USA

(317) 875-8755 Worldwide (800) 879-4769 North America (317) 879-0204 Fax 5 6 12 PO #15 A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE (a--14 Alcohol Awareness--° for PregnantWomen

women interviewed believed that a Women who drink heavily The Need pregnant woman could safely consume throughout pregnancy may have three drinks a day. Another study children with no signs of fetal alcohol Drinking alcohol during pregnancy showed that only 55 percent of women syndrome. Others who drink at low to is gambling with a chikl's life. A few ages 1)to 34 had heard of fetal moderate levels will have babies with drinks daily can lead to decreased alcohol syndrome. alcohol-related damage. For this birthweight and size, growth reason, the safest advice is not to drink abnormalities, and behavior problems. alcohol during pregnancy. As the average daily consumption of Studies in France, Sweden, and the alcohol increases, even more serious United States indicate that one child in problems can threaten the unborn Understanding 1.000 will be born with FAS. Other

child: stillbirth, joint and organ the Terms studies put the rate at 1 to 2 per 1,(X)0 malformations, and mental retardation. "Fetal alcohol syndrome- (FAS) for the general population and higher This is a serious problem today describes the most extreme effects of for certain groups. In 1993, the because one in six women in peak alcohol consumption on a newborn. Centers for Disease Control estimated childbearing years (18 to 34) may One pregnant woman in three who that, in the United States, 5.(X)0 drink enough to hurt their unborn children with FAS and 8.000 to 16.000 daily drinks three ounces of alcohol babies, according to the National (six mixed drinks or six beers) gives with FAH are born each year. Because many of the effects of Council on Alcoholism and Drug birth to a child with the full range of alcohol damage may not be apparent at Dependence. Consumption rates FAS effects. Some researchers have birth (mental retardation, behavior continue to increase. tUund an association between binge problems, poor coordination), some A marketing study described in drinking (five or more drinks on any Advertising Age magazine predicts experts believe that tetal alcohol one occasion) and FAS. that women's expenditures on An FAS child is horn at low hirth effects are underdiagnosed. alcohol will increase to $30 billion by weight, reduced length, an abnormally 1994 a 50 percent increase in tcn small head and brain, central nervous years. system damage, and possible As much as 90 percent of the malformations of organs and physical public know that drinking alcohol features. during pregnancy can hurt unborn "Fetal alcohol effects- (FAE) children, according to a study in the describes the damage to children American Journal of Public Health. caused by lower levels of drinking However, the understanding of the during pregnancy. Children with fetal problem is very vague. A third of the alcohol effects have some but not ail of the problems listed above, in a milder form. The first step for this group may Companies CarePmgrainArrange The Challenge be to study the frequency of FAS and for local experts to talk at employee FAE among infants and other age meetinizs of companies about the Warninizs about not drinking during groups in the community. This will importance of avoiding alcohol during pregnancy date back as far as Aristotle indicate the severity of the problem pregnancy. Use representatives from and the Bible: and establish a basis for evaluating the the public health department. March of Behold novt; you are barren and have impact of education and intervention Dimes, and family and child services borne no children, but you shall conceive efforts. This study should result in a departments. and give birth to a son. Now therdiyre, be sustained effort to identify newborns canfid not to drink wine or stmng drink, nor eat any unclean thing. with possible FAS/FAE. Print -- The Bible, Judges 13:2-3 With this new information the The sample materials in the group should be able to define the back of this bulletin and the list of Organizations like the March of target audience of the awareness materials available from various Dimes are issuing an updated version campaignthe women who are organizations provide a range of print, of this message today. Unfortunately. drinking during pregnancy. The iyoup audio, and video materials that your not all the women who need to hear it may also want to explore the potential club or coalition can use. Listed have. And women react differently to for setting up a screening program to below are suggestions on integrating this message. Some women are casual identify pregnant women with alcohol these materials into your campaiim. social drinkers, and learning about the problems who should be encouraged relationship between drinking alcohol. to seek help to stop drinking. PamphletsProduce or purchase in FAS, and FAE will be enough to stop quantity. Leave at clinics, doctors' them from drinking during pregnancy. offices, high schools, college Others are habitual drinkers or Building Public Awareness campuses, the health department. drug alcohol-dependent. Some will want to Events and Gimmicks stores, and liquor stores. To print stop but hove a hard time doing so. Pregnant WomenPourOrganize an enough to really cover the community, Others won't want to stop. event at which women who have just offer to give credit on the pamphlet to The challenge for Kiwanis clubs is learned they are pregnant (or who are a printer who will donate the printing. three-fold: to ensure that community going to start trying to be pregnant) efforts to combat fetal damage due to pour away the remains of any liquor Public Service Ads (PSAs)Take alcohol are well coordinated, to build they have at home. Stage the event at prepared ads to local newspapers and general awareness, and to provide the hospital where they will deliver ask them to print them as a public support to women who want to stop their children. Have a representative service. Better yet. ask the companies drinking. from a supermarket or dairy present that are major advertisers in the paper each woman with a quart of milk. to take your PSA in for you. Invite newspapers, radio stations, and Coordinating Efforts television reporters to cover the event. Press ReleasesSend out press The first step in an alcohol Take pictures so that you can submit releases to every news source in the awareness campaign is a meeting them with your press release. community to tell what your needs with the agencies that are already survey discoveredand include involvedor would like to get Free Milk for Pregnant Women information on FAS and FAE. involvedwith this issue. This may Encourage local bars and restaurants include the health department, social that serve alcohol to offer free milk Op-Ed PiecesOppositethe editorial service providers. organizations that (or fruit juice) to women who are page is a page where opinion pieces address alcoholism and alcohol pregnant. Create a poster or table are printed. Have one of the medical problems. members of the medical card for bars to use in educating their experts in your coalition write an community (pediatricians. clientele. Put out a flyer that lists the op-ed piece and hand deliver it to the obstetricians, nurses, hospitals, health participating establishments. Commu- person in charge of the editorial and educators, psychologists, counselors). nicate the message that they are proud opinion pages. Explain who wrote the mental retardation support programs. to help pregnant women have healthy piece and that you personally brought support programs, Alcoholics babies. it in to explain your campaign. Anonymous, rehabilitation centers, the nearest March of Dimes chapter, parents of FAS children, school counselors, and owners of local bars and liquor stores. 1 58 2 PostersSponsor a local poster copy from your master and play the women who have a difficult time contest (or get the local newspaper or PSA regularly. avoidiniz alcohol. Volunteers will need printer to sponsor the contest) for the to be trained to give standard advice, best poster on not drinking while Inten-iewsUrge the local news and a counselor (who can help in a pregnant. Put up the winning posters stations' medical reporter or the host of crisis) should always he on call. The at clinics, doctors' offices, and every the local video magazine show to help line can also connect women to place liquor is sold. interview one of the spokespersons for the free clinic or to counseling your coalition. resources. Radio Resource SheetCreate a resource Public Service Announcements sheet of counseling and therapy PSAsjWrite short announcements Services programs available to women who that explain the reason why pregnant to Pregnant Women need assistance to stop drinking. This women shouldn't drink. Design them Awareness is not enough. Women listing should include programs that to be read in 10. 15, 20, and 30 need support. Every pregnant woman can help a family assist a woman who seconds. Take copies to local radio needs to have prenatal care. Those denies her problem. stations and ask that they be read. Or, who are alcohol dependent need you can purchase taped PSAs and support to avoid drinking, and the Home Visitation ProgramWonlen carry these to local stations. Ask that families of pregnant women who are most likely to learn from and the station commit to playiniz the tape won't face their drinking problem may need assistance to intervene. follow the advice of someone like at specific times. themselves. That is why the home visitation and resource mother InterviewsPersuade the most Free Prenatal CareThe first step to a programs are so successful. These articulate members of the coalition (a healthy pregnancy is to get prenatal programs train volunteers from the doctor, an expert on mental retardation careregular visits to a doctor. neighborhood to visit pregnant women and alcoholism, an adoptive parent of Doctors give advice on how to have and make sure they're doing the right an FAS child) to agree to be inter- healthy pregnancies (no alcohol is one things to ensure a healthy pregnancy. viewed. Then, contact the news piece of advice) and address any As trust develops, the home visitor can departments or talk show hosts about health problems that develop. Women help the expectant mother negotiate doing a series of interviews to increase who cannot afford this must have the complexities of the health care access to free prenatal care. awareness of the dangers of drinking system or secure financial assistance. while pregnant. If a free clinic for prenatal care does not exist in the community. the The Cooperative Extension Service has "Mentor Mother" programs in Call-in ShowsUrge a station with a coalition can develop one, using some states, and some public health call-in show aimed at women to use resources contributed by the members. Several doctors will need to volunteer departments have outreach mothers one of the medical experts from your programs. For more information on coalition or the caregiver of an FAS a few hours each week. A hospital or these programs, request service child as a featured guest. social service agency can contribute materials and space. Record keeping bulletin PO #17, "Home Visitation can be done by volunteers, and your Programs", from the Kiwanis Video International Office and contact the Kiwanis club could provide lights, Donate VideotapesPurchase National Commission to Prevent waiting room furniture, and educational videos and donate them to Infant Mortality for additional educational materials. clinics (where they can be played in If a free clinic already is in opera- materials. the waiting room), child birth tion, the club may need to publicize its educators, schools, and libraries. location and hours or offer transportation to it. Cable BmadcastsUrge the local cable television franchise to run a Telephone Help LineA telephone video about fetal alcohol syndrome help line for pregnant women can and fetal alcohol effects on the local answer all kinds of questions. access channel. meanwhile promoting healthy pregnancies. Besides rliving advice on Public Service Announcements proper nutrition and the dangers of PSAs)Visit local stations with a alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs, the help PSA on avoiding alcohol while line can provide moral support to pregnant. Urge them to dub their own

3 159 Radio Public Service Announcement Instructions For each of these samples, retype the text double-spaced and Radio Public Service Announcements with appropriate margins (2" tbr the radio scripts; I" for the 10 seconds others). Make copies of the radio PSA and distribute them Drinking while pregnant can damage your unborn baby. Play it safe. Don't drink while you're pregnant. to local radio stations. Develop and distribute your own A message from this station and the Mrlkwood Knvanis club. press release using a tbrmat similar to the sample. Submit the op-ed piece to your local newspaper editor and ask that 10 seconds If you're pregnant and you drink alcohol, you're gambling with the appear as an op-ed piece or letter to the editor. life and health of your unborn child. So, drink for your baby. Have milk or puce. A message from this station and the Milkwood Healthy liaby Committee. Op-Ed Piece

15 seconds You wouldn't give your newborn baby a beer. But while you're The Importance of Alcohol Awareness for Pregnant Women pregnant, any alcohol you drink reaches your baby a minute after you swallow. So don't swallow any at all. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Feta! Alcohol Effects (FAE) are the terms used A message from thts station and the Kiwanis Club of Mdkwood. to describe a combination of physical and mental birth defects that may develop when expectant mothers drink excessive amounts of alcohol during pregnancy. Alcohol is one 20 seconds of the few known causes of birth defects that produce mental retardation.It is certainly the most preventable. Imagine a ten-year-old child the size of a so,-year-old. Imagine that she has an IQ of 65. Imagine that she's your child Now, imagine Bab:es born with FAS or FAE are abnormally small al birth and usually do not catch someone asking, "Why did you drink b'efore she was born?" up as they get olderIn most cases they have small, widely spaced eyes, a short. If you're pregnant, don't drink alcohol. upturned nose, and small, flat cheeks. They may suff:.ir from a variety of organ malformations, particularly of the heart Most babies with FAS/FAE have small brains and A message from this station and the Alcohol-Free Babies Committee. some degree of mental retardation. Many are poorly coordinated, have shoil attention spans, and exhibit behavioral problems.

I 30 seconds Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was first identified in 1973. Cases of FAS have now been If you're pregnant and you drink alcohol, so does your unborn child. reported in most countnes and among all socio-economic groups. In the United States, But yourbaby's body isn't old enough to cope. A drink or two each one out al every 750 newbomsabout 5,000 babies per yearhave FAS. The Centers day could mean lower birthweight or growth problems for your for Disease Control estimates that, in the United States, 10,000 newborns each year may baby. And enough alcohol to give you a hangover could leave him be affected by F/kE. mentally retarded. So, remember, every drink is for both of you. And your baby's way too young to start Researchers doal know how alcohol causes damage,to the fetus. They do know that alcohol passes directly through the placenta to a fetus soon after being consumed by A message from this station and the Knvams Club of Milkwood. the mother. A baby gels as much alcohol as a mother dnnks. However, because an unborn baby's liver is immature, it cannot break down the alcohol. It remains in the child's system until it can move back into the mother's bloodstream to be oxidized. As a result. the alcohol level in the fetus's blood actually can be higher than in the mother's blood.

Flow much Is too much? Women who drink the equivalent of three ounces of pure Sample Press Release alcohol each day (six mixed dnnks or six cans ol beer) frequently give birth to babes who have the full range of FAS. Moderate amounts of alcohol dunng pregnancy (two to five drinks daily) also can cause FAE.. Because some women who drink heavily throughout pregnancy have children with no signs of FAS but others who drink sparingly have babies For Immediate Release For more information, contact: with FAE, the safest advice is not to drink any alcohol dudng pregnancy Kiwanis Club Of Milkwood Dylan Thomas Dnnking alcohol can also increase the nsk of other problems. Heavy drinkers are 555-4356 two to four times more likely to have a miscarriage between the fourth and sixth months of pregnancy. Heavy dnnkers are also two to three times more likely to lose their babies "Alcohol is kilhng ,md maiming our babies." says pediatrician dunng the pennatal penod. Shirley Handel, spokesperson for the Priority Ove Conmmtee of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is completely preventable if a pregnant woman does not Milkwood. Six children bornit Milkwood Couniy over the past 12 dnnk Women planning a pregnancy should stop consuming alcohol before attempting to months have birth defects that were caused by their mothers' consumption conceive and should abstain throughout pregnancy and nursing. Women who drink and of alcohol during prep:they. according to Dr. Ilande, And alcohol have unplanned pregnancies should abstain as soon as they suspect they are pregnant consumption was linked to three pregnancies that did no: come to term. Heavy drinkers should avoid pregnancy until they are certain that they can abstain from All of these problems were preventable, according to a report alcohol for the entire term from conception to birth. vt Mien by the Prtorin One Committee and presented by Dr. I land& "Alcohol cannot cause birth defects if pregnant %%omen don't drink it." says Dr Handel. Women in Milky, ood County need to he better educated about drinking alcohol during pregnancy. notes the report. That is v,hy it recommends development of an education and outreach campaign to alert all women of childheanng age that alcohol should be avoided dunng pregnancy. "Anyone who wants to help in this campaign should come to the Instructions Committee's next meeting." urges Dr. Handel.It will meet at Wales Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, November 8. at 7:t/Opm. The committee The page to the right is a brochure, mcludcs representatives from the Milkwood Kinartis club: Marcli of Dunes: Alcoholics Anonymous: Healthy Mothers. Healthy Balues:.01-istetms and ready to be printed. To use this master: Pediatrics Depts. of Milkwood Hospital: and Milkwood C'ounseling. I. Remove the staples in the gutter Nationally. one child in 750 is horn with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome fold. WAS) and more are born with Fetal Alcohol Meets I tAFt FAS is a set of Innh defects that includes gross ill deficiency. lacial nmlformatums. central Cut along the gutter fold. nervous system damage, and other defects. Children with FAE are also born Have the brochure printed, double with sonie of these problems. All of these defects are caused by women drmking alcohol dunng pregnancy. sided, and tOlded (#I0 letter fold)

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At low levels, lead can cause poisoned by home renovation projects The Problem reduced IQ. reading and learning that generate lead dust. Many home disabilities, attention deficit disorder owners arc not aware of the hazards of Childhood lead poisoning is the and behavioral problems. As a result. lead removal and unknowingly poison number one environmental health risk childhood lead poisoning is associated their children. facing children in industrialized with lower educational achievement. countries today. In the United States, higher rates of high school drop-out more than three million children age and increased behavioral problems. In six and youngerthat's one out of the long run, children who are lead Preventing Lead every six children in that age poisoned may be less likely to become grouphas toxic levels of lead in their positive contributors to our Poisoning bodies. Similar proportions of children communities and our economy. Lead poisoning is entirely prevent- are affected in other countries, from The t verwhelming cause of lead able. All it requires is: Germany to Australia, that have used poisoning in children is lead-based Awareness of the risk of lead lead in industry and consumer paint in homes. In the United States. poisoning and particularly the products. Lead poisonin2 affects lead was banned in residential paint damler in home renovations. families from every socioeconomic 1978. About half of all older homes level, though the problem tends to be the U.S. contain some leaded pain: dnd Identification of children who are worse in neighborhoods where approximately two to three million at risk or who are already buildings are not well cared for. homes have lead-based paint that is poisoned. Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that peeling or flaking, an immediate interferes with the development and hazard to children. Removal and reduction of the lead functioning of almost all body organs, Invisible lead dust on household hazards in homes, child care particularly the kidneys. red blood surfaces is just as hazardous to centers, and schools. cells, and central nervous system. In children as paint chips. Most children young children, lead retards the are lead poisoned today through the Kiwanis clubs can help eliminate lead development of the central nervous ingestion of leaded household dust. poisoning by working in any of these system and brain. High levels of lead This dust can be created by friction areas. exposure can result in coma, the opening of windows or the rubbing Clubs may be able to coordinate convulsions, and death. of a tight door. Children are also being their activities with the local health department. In areas where lead

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1 poisoning is not yet identified as a Special EventsTown meetings, Professional Recruitment priority, clubs can spearhead a community forums, fairs, social A club should find trained medical coalition with local pediatricians, club meetings. professional professionals who would be willing to children's hospitals, contracting firms, organization meetings. volunteer their time to do the home builders, and schools. screening. It will be important to Printed MaterialsBrochures, arrange for medical follow-up for any pamphlets, flyers, posters. children identified with high levels of lead. Locate private pediatricians, Try to identify the places in your clinics and hospitals that provide care Raising community where your target audience to lead-poisoned children. The club might go or meet. For example, Awareness may also offer to pay for follow-up people involved in home repair will go treatment if no other resource is The first challenge of an awareness to the hardware store or lumber yard. available. campaign is to alert the community to Most pregnant women will be the problem: childhood lead poisoning In some areas, lead poisoning pre- receiving care from an obstetrician or vention activities will be coordinated is a threat to all children under the age a clinic. Target your activities to these by the local or state health department of six. places. Misconceptions about lead or a local children's hospital. Clubs poisoning prevent action. Many interested in screening should first contact the health department and people think the problem of lead 1 poisoning was solved when lead was hospital to identify current programs taken out of paint and gasoline. Identifying Lead and resources and to discuss options Others believe that a few youngsters Poisoning for screening: locations, events, and living in extreme poverty get lead so tbrth. poisoning when they eat chips of Early identification of lead However, the local health peeling paint. The truth is that lead poisoning can ensure proper medical department may not have established poisoning will continue to threaten treatment and reduce the long-term any program or be interested in the children as long as lead is present in threat to a child's development. A project. Some health departments may our environment and homes. s*.mple blood test is all that is needed. believe that lead poisoning is not a Many people fixing up their homes All children should be tested by their problem in their communities. The unknowingly place themselves and f,rst birthday and then at least once a only way to know if there is a problem their families at risk of lead poisoning. year until age seven. is through screening children, and a Improper removal of lead-based paint Nine out of ten children are never club can organize that screening. creates leaded dust which is hazardous tested for lead poisoning. This means both to the worker and the family. many of the children affected are Young children and pregnant women never identified. Early identification Site Selection are particularly at risk. Alerting the of children with lead poisoning can The best sites are centrally located. public to this risk is one of the best ensure proper medical and offer easy access, and draw young environmental follow-up and can methods of preventing childhood lead children and their parents. Shopping prevent more serious damage due to poisoning. centers, toy stores, churches, museums The public also should learn about continued lead exposure. and fast food restaurants are other possible sources of lead A community-wide screening fair possibilities. So are child care centers. poisoning: in soil around lead-painted would be an important step toward pre-schools. and Head Start Programs. homes, in drinking water, in some iden.ifying all the children with lead and playgrounds. Contact the director enameled dishes and crystal. and poioning in the community. The or manager of a kw possible sites and sea ening could also serve as a way to hobbies. discuss the possibility of a screening. Kiwanis clubs could play a key raise awareness about the problem. the role in prevention by launching a risk of renovation, and the need to comprehensive public education clean up the lead in a child's Joint Projects environment. Lead screening could be campaign. It should include every Reaching all children at risk may incorporated into a larger health possible method of spreading the word. require some special planning to draw screening effort, such as a health fair ,..et..apres,; articles. hildren. A screening effort can be Ihe w or immunization drive, or it can he newspaper advertisements, radio coordinated with a health fair. organized on its own. In either public service announcements, immunization drive, or sonic other situation, a club can help in several television and radio interviews. special event. Incorporating lead ways.

21" screening may be cost effective and Purchasing MaterialsWindows, The Alliance also provides materials help increase participation. doors, and woodwork often need on request. These include: Guide to to be replaced. Walls need to be State Lead Screening Laws, Resource paneled or covered. Guide for Financing, Lead-Based Paint Cleanup, and copies of Getting the Providing Temporary Shelter fact-filled articles from newspapers. The best time to abate a home is magazines, and other organizations. Lead Out when it is unoccupied. All occupants should be out of the Ultimately, preventing childhood house, but it is particularly lead poisoning may require removing Lead Institute of San Francisco important for pregnant women the lead in a child's environment. This P.O. Box 591244 and children. A club could is the best way to prevent lead San Francisco, CA 94118 provide a lead-safe home for poisoning, and it is vital for children U.S.A. families who need to be who are already poisoned. Removing (800) 532-3837 orders only temporarily relocated. lead-based paint, called abatement, can (4 I 5) 885-4645 information be hazardous and requires specialized Training WorkersImproperly Offers a free pamphlet on lead training and safety precautions. Many conducted abatement can also poisoning and sells testing kits and a localities, however, do not have the create a danger to the worker and book on lead abatement ($20). trained work force, materials, or the family. Lead is a hazardous resources to safely and properly substance, and people working identify and remove lead-based paint. with it must be trained in safety Kiwanis clubs can help build this techniques to protect their own National Lead Information capacity in a number of ways. health. A club could send Center/Hotline 1019 19th Street NW members of the community Suite 401 (including club members) to a Washington, DC 2(X)36-5105 training center for lead-based U.S.A. paint abatement. To learn more Providing (202) 293-2270 about these training centers, (800) LEAD-FYI Resources contact the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning The cost of properly removing Offers a variety of brochures and fact (address and phone below). lead-based paint can be prohibitive. sheets aimed at parents, explaininu the Many families and small-scale dangers of lead poisoning. the property owners cannot afford this importance of testing children. and expense. If the lead is not properly safe home renovations. Also provides removed, lead poisoned children will Resources a list of state comacts. be continuously exposed and poisoned The organizations listed below offer anew. materials that may assist a club in Providing Loans/GrantsA club developing a lead-poisoning National Maternal and Child can help by developing a prevention program. Health Clearinghouse revolving loan fund to finance 38th and R Streets NW lead-based paint batement or by Washington, DC 20057 guaranteeing a loan made from a Alliance to End Childhood U.S.A. local bank. Lead Poisoning (202) 625-8410 (703) 821-8955 ext. 254 Purchasing EquipmentThe best 6(X) Pennsylvania Ave. SE way to check for lead-based paint Suite 1(X) Offers a book titled Childhood Lead in a building is to bring in a Washington, DC 20003 Poisoning Prevention. a state-by-state portable X-ray fluorescence U.S.A. listing of experts and programs on lead machine. Safe clean-up involves a (202) 543-1147 screenings, medical treatment, paint HEPA vacuum (High Efficiency testing, home inspection, and Particulate Air vacuum). These The Alliance staff offers technic.1 abatement. One copy free on request. pieces of equipment cost more assistance and will help clubs find than $1,0(X) each. local contacts who can offer expert advice for a local prevention program.

169 3 Films Incorporated Video Frandon Lead Alert National Testing Laboratories 5547 N. Ravenswood Avenue RO. Box 300321 Watercheck Chicago, IL 60640 Seattle, WA 98103, U.S.A. 615 I Wilson Mills Road U.S.A. (800) 359-90(X) Cleveland, OH 44143 (800) 323-4222 ext. 43 Cost: $29.95 plus $3.50 U.S.A. shipping/handling (800) 458-3330 Offers a videotape and study guide Cost: $29 titledKids and Lead Hazards: What Lead Check Swabs Even' Family ShouldKnow. P.O. Box 1210 Suburban Water Testing Developed by Consumers Reports Framingham, MA 01701 4600 Kutztown Road Television and Connecticut Public U.S.A. Temple, PA 19560 Television. Cost: $29.95 (includes (800) 262-LEAD U.S.A. shipping and handling). Cost: $17.(X) for an g pack: $28.45 for (800) 433-6595 a I6-pack, good for an average house: Cost: $19 $68.50 tor a 48-pack Do-lt-Yourself Testing Kits Water Test Corporation Lead Paint and Coatings Lead in Water 33 South Commercial Street Kits designed to test for lead paint Applied Technical Services, Inc. Manchester, NH 03101 only indicate whether lead is present in Environmental Science Division U.S.A. the paint and do not indicate the 1190 Atlanta Industrial Drive (800) 426-8378 amount of lead. Low levels of lead Marietta. GA 3()066 Cost: $25 detected by a laboratory often aren't U.S.A. detected by these kits. (404) 423-14(X) Cost: $24.95 for kit

Instructions The brochure on the next two pages can be cut out of this bulletin and used as a master for printing. Consider printing the brochure and distributing it throughout your community. To use the master, remove the staples in the gutter between the pages, cut along the fold, and then have the brochure printed, double sided. Have the printed brochures folded like business letters (#10 letter fold). with the panel that reads "Get the I.ead OUT" as the cover. 1 70

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Van Johnson Kiwanis Club of Hyde Park

-Hyde Park chldren are in dange of lead poisoning. and Kiwanians want to make sure they re rxotected; says Kiwanis club president John Clandge. That's vhiy the Hyde Park Krwarnans are launching an education campagn and offenng free blood tests for children. Instructions The Kiwanis Club of Hyde Park will offer free blood tests fix lead poisoning each Saturdayin For each of these samples, retype Septernber. from 900 am to noon al the Slop ard Shcp Grocery, Dorchester and 53rd Street

the text double-spaced and with Brochures on lead poisoning arC pe distnbuted at the Stop and Shop, Efits Avenue Clinic appropriate margins (2" for the radio Walgreen's Drugstore, Toys and Tots, O'Gara's Bookstore, and a rumber of churches The KAValliS club plans to distribute 10,C00 brochures. scripts; 1" for the others). Make copies of the radio PSAs and distribute In the Unrted States, one preschooler in six has lead poiscang, according to the Erriiromentai them to local radio stations.Develop Proteclion Agency. Bause of the number of older buldings in Hyde Park. the proportion with lead poksorang may be higher here, suggests Clandge. Lead was used in pants until 1978 and and distribute your own press release in some plumbing fixtures and ppes. using a format similar to thc sample. In very small arnoults, lead affects the kidneys, red blood cells, and central nervous system. Use the letter as a model for a according to rte bicc hire being distributed by the Krwants club. In young children, it can lead-testing effort in a child care or permanently lower theft). reduce attenton span, and delay demlopment.

preshhool setting. A preschooler can ingest enough lead to be poisoned from the dust of leadbased paint on a Create a poster similar to the one window sill. SwallowIng the equivalent of a few grans of sugar each day could resutt in blood on the back of this bulletin to publicize lead levels two to three limes the official lead pasoning level of 10 mcrograms in a deciliter of brood. your lead-testing event . Simple precautions will protect children front many sources of lead. Those include damp dushng wtlh a high-phosphate detergent keeping toddlers from chewing window sills and woodwork, and running water for a minute bef we drinking S. Other suggessons appear in the Ixochure.

Parents whose children test high for lead rnay need to have their homes tested to determre the sources of lead poscang.

Radio PSAs Letter to parents

Radio Public Service Announcements Dear Parents:

SCRIPT #1 15 seconds One preschooler in s x has lead poisoning. Le,,d poisoning can lower a child's IQ, Your young child probably won't show any symptoms of lead dcrease attention span, and slow poisoning. But a little lead in his system before age five can affect his development. 10 for lifePlay it safe. Have your child tested for lead. A message from this radio station and the Kiwanis Club of Amo. That 's why LheKiwanis Club Of Kankakee is offering to provide free lead testing to all children in the Kankakee Valley Pre- SCRIPT k2 15 seconds school Program. f,./e also will be prepared test younger siblings at the end of the There's lead in old paint. In soil around houses. In some water school day. pipes Maybe in the dust around your house. And it can all hurt your children. Find out more. Request our lead poisoning fact sheet. The testing will be conducted by Dr. Van A service project of this radio station and the Kiwanis Club of Rile Halen from the Morrison Clinic. :t will involve taking a smal: blood sample fro:-. each child. SCRIPT #3 30 seconds We have scheduled the testing for a week Before you start sanding or cutting holes in walls, we'd like to tell from Friday, on October 18. If you would you three facts about lead paint like your child or children tested, please One: Lead-based paint was manufactured until 1978. so ifs in complete the attached form and turn it in most houses. Two: Just the dust from a remodeling project will spread othe preschool by Wednesday, October enough lead through your house to affect the 10 of a young child. Three: You can have your house tested for lead paint or do it yourself. Also enclosed with this letter is a A message from this radio station and the Kiwanis Club of Wales. brochure about 1,ad poisoning. Tf1001 11,1ve any questions about lead poi3oning or the SCRIPT #4 30 seconds tes!-ing prc.cess, please cal; Fre. Sincerely, There are 300 tons of lead-based paint on buildings in this country And when it flakes or peels or is sanded, it can poison children. That's why every child under six should be tested for lead And parents need Fdward VanLouwonhook to learn how to protect their children from lead Find out how Young Chi1dren Chairran Request our lead poisoning fact sheet. Kankokoe Kiwonh, A service project of this radio station and the Kiwanis Club of Bloom Township.

175 Sample poster

Protect Your Children!

One preschooler in six has lead poisoning enough to lower his or her IQ for life.

You can have your children tested for free: Saturday, May 24 10:00 am to 2:00 pm At the Gazebo in Westfield Park

Free Ice Cream and Helium Balloons

Contact the Kiwanis Club of Westfield or the Westfield Dairy Queen for more information.

ILIC '0/0 Program Development Department Kiwanis International 3636 Wood view Trace Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196 USA

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with the people they visit, and that That's why the countries with the The Need motivates the parents to learn and lowest infant mortality rates have accept help from their visitors. home visitation programs and why Each year thousands of children are Home visitors help pregnant home visitation is now viewed as the horn underweight and underdeveloped. women understand the importance of most effective way to keep child abuse Many of them die before they reach prenatal care and proper nutrition. from beginning in a family. their first birthday. Thanks to thc They' help the expectant mothers gain UntOrtunately, in many communities technological marvels of neonatal access to services and prepare them for there isn't a home visitation program. intensive care units, some of these the realities of caring for an infant. children surviveat an average cost of Visitors model proper care and $500,0(X) tOr a single childand need developmentally appropriate activities: therapy or support service for the rest they share infOrmation about nutrition. Program Design of their lives. safety, and immunizations: and they Each year many more thousands listen to thc concerns of thc parents. A home visitation program must are horn to parents who do not know have clearly defined goals, methods, how to care tOr them. The parents lack and target populations. A program can I like the term home visaing ...It estabh1hes a traditional network of' relatives and the relationAhip bettt ern me and my 1i1aor serve all families, all pregnant women, neighbors to help them. As a result. She's 0 v10101 in my home. I am mole III «mtrol only new families with certain risk many of the children are neglected or ot the menu-non She'.% here at in:. initiation to factors. The important thing is that the abused. help me help myscll focus addresses a genuine need that One type of program has proven A mealier in a home visitation the community recognizes. The visitor capable of solving both problems, can provide general support: or move helping children to he horn healthy Home visitation programs can be quickly to link the family to services: an extremely important part of a and cared for by confident, loving or provide a specific service or prents.It is called "Home Visitation" comprehensive program of health care treatment program. The goals must be and family support. There still need to and has been used for more thanl 00 defined in a way that can be measured. he health clinics, nutrition programs, years. related to health or behavioral rehabilitation services, and agencies Home visitation progranIstrain a outcomes. nurse, social worker, or neighbor to that work together to help families. The workers in a visitation program But the home visitor is the "front line- visit homes of expectant mothers and must he carefully chosen and trained. new families. They establish a rapport that reaches into homes and makes In addition to the skills needed to sure families get the help they need. provide the services in t:Ic program,

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1 the visitor needs to relate easily and the community for a year. Similarly, Once this partnership of concerned "fit in" with the families visited. She a year-long visitation program for 20 organizations has grown to "maturity", or he needs to be able to listen, families could be supported from the it can define the goals and deadlines observe, guide, question, demonstrate, cost of prosecution of a single child necessary to create a home visitation and sometimes confront without ever abuse or neglect case, including care program for the community. Various destroying the relationship with the for the child and education for the people or organizations will take family. This is why many programs try parents. responsibility for certain roles: to hire home visitors from the In short, the cost of coping with neighborhood or area in which they the health and family crises of a Lead AgencyResponsible for will work. community will be greater than leadership, administration, and Training needs to be on-going, investing in health support and coordination of activities. both to ensure the continued fOcus of guidance for all the families in that services and the proper knowledge community. And while saving money. Grant WritingRequires base. Supervision is needed to help the lives of all children in the expertise to track and initiate the home visitors face the continuing, community cnn be improved. private and public grant proposals. unique challenges each of their Fund RaisingA number of families presents. Continued support people needed, with experience is essential to ward off the frustration soliciting funds from individuals, and burn-out when success must be The Challenge organizations, and businesses. measured by small increments that take months or years. for Kiwanis TrainingA team with Finally, the program must be Kiwanis clubs can help create knowledge of adult education. designed to provide enough support home visitation programs. The first interpersonal communicatior, over a sufficient period of time to have step is to understand that the club can't group process, maternal and infant a lasting impact. This requires do it alone. As with many' other Young health, child development, and long-term commitments on funding, Children: Priority One projects, the parenting. program administration, evaluation, club will need to gather members of Media RelationsRequires and the people involved in the the health and social service writing experience for op-eds, proiyam. professions. If they are concerned press releases, and letters: about the quality of maternal and contacts in the print and broadcast infant health, parenting, and child news media. abuse in the community, they will Program Costs want to work with you. Public EducationWriting and The first step the group must take public speaking needed, as well as An effective home visitation is to learn about home visitation funds for printing materials. requires substantial funding. There programs and gather statistics and should be an administrator who trains comments from families that show AdrocacvMust communicate and oversees the visitors, and each there is a need for a home visitation the need for the program to policy home visitor will probably work with program. The group will usc this makers, business leaders, and only 15 to 20 families. Costs per information to educate other service other influential groups. family served can run from a few agencies, business and community hundred dollars to $3,500 a year. Most leaders, government officials, and the As the program develops (or if of the recognized, effective programs public about the need for a home there is already a home visitation cost at least $2,000 a year per family. visitation program. Throughout the program in the community), That is a lot of money. However, education process, the group should organizations can address a number of the costs of not having home add members to its growing coalition, other jobs, too. These include: visitations are often very much higher. so that business, government, and the The cost of a single child in neonatal target communities are all represented. intensive care for three to six months could pay for a home visitation program for all the pregnant women in TheRCMii me AintherrPf(INI The Ccoperati ve l'Atension Service ,o tientii'y.ng dome visitor has developed three home visitation candidates from the organization has created a database of home programs that are used in a numher of or neighborInmd. visitation programs throughout the United States. Ahem surveying a states: The Expanded Food and Providing transportatioa to home number of these pru grams. it has Nutritian LA( athm Pmgram visitors. developed implementation and (FFNEK the lalunteer Intormation training materials to help guide Provhler PnIgrani. and the iltentor Pnividing space for the coinmunities in estahlishing programs. Mather Pmgram. A county agent. the administrative center of the home extension service office at a state visitation program where the land-grant university, or the office home visitots can meet complete National Committee for the listed above can provide information paperwork, keep files, and make about these programs. follow-up phone calls. Prevention of Child Abuse (NCPCA) !holding "Baby Showers" for 332 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1600 participants in the program. Chicago. II, 60604-4357 IIBureau of Family Health Phone: 312/663-3520 Kansas Department of Health and "Adopting" a horne Environment visitor- paying the costs The NCPCA is working with I,andon State Office Building ;Associated with one fulbtime Ronald McDonald Charities to set up Oth Floor home visitor. more than 30 pilot sites of a home 9t)0 SW Jackson visitation program called Healthy Topeka, KS 66612-1290 Developing a "Maternity Closet" America. This program was Phone: 913/296-1234 of donated clothes that can be deseloped from a program in Hawaii Fax: 913/296-6231 offered to pregnant women in the that eliminated child abuse in an program. at-risk population for four years. The The Healthy Start Program Assisting with language goal is to set up voluntary home provides education and support to pregnant WOrnen and fantilies ss ith a translation of materials or helping visitatiot. programs throughout the It k to communicate with a family. (I.S. To learn more ahout this baby (less than one year old). prograni. contact the NCPCA. now available in 49 counties in The NCPCA also provides the Kansas. A manual and other materials administrative support for the National used in the program are available for Parent Aide Association, Many home purchase. To Learn More visitation programs focused on Several organizations offer prevention of abuse belting to this tremendous resources that can help a 'association. The Parent Aid, IIII Georgia Council gniup in your community plan the Association will provide information on Child Abuse devel(Tment of a hoine visitation on migrant development and 1401 Peachtree Street NE program. If your club is interested, maintains a directory of programs. Suite 140 contact some of the organizations Atlanta, GA 30309 listed below. Phone: 404/870-6555 IIIExtension Service Communication, Information, and The Georgia Council offers a IINational Commission to Technology Staff program called First Steps that begins Prevent Infant Mortalty U.S. Department of Agriculture after delivery, with a visit in the Resource Mothers Program Room 3328-S hospital, and continues with home Switzer Building 14th & Independence Avenue SW visits as needed. Materials available 330 C Street SW, Room 2014 Washington, DC 20250 for purchase include an operational Washington, IX' 20201 Phone: 202/720-4651 manual, a training guide. volunteer Phone: 202/205-8364 handbook. brochures, and video about Fax: 202/205-5562 the program.

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`bung Children ADVISORY COUNCIL PRIORITY ONE

The organizations listed below have a representative on Kiwanis International's Priority One Advisory Council. The Council will assist in developing service materials for Young Children: Priority One.

Many of these organizations also have state or local affiliates that will be urged to work with Kiwanis clubs in addressing the needs of young children. District Young Children Program chairmen have lists of contacts that can be shared with lieutenant pvernors and club leaders.

The local level contacts of many Council members may be easy to find. The county extension agent is probably listed in the phone book, and the same may be true for the March of Dimes, Head Start, YMCA, and several others. A final method to find a state or local contactor to request other informationis to contact the national office of an organization on the Council. Addresses and phone numbers are listed on this sheet.

In addition, other organizations have been invited to join the Council. Their decisiuns are pending. Kiwanis International will continue to invite onto the Council those organizations with which clubs should work.

Alliance to End American Red Cross Committee for Childhood Lead Poisoning 17th and "D" Streets, NW Economic Development 600 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Washington, DC 20006 477 Madison Avenue Ste. 100 (202) 737-8300 New York, NY 10022 Washington, DC 21:1003 (212) 688-2063 (202) 543-1147

American Academy of Pediatrics Association of Junior Leasues Cooperative Extension Service 141 Northwest Point Blvd. International Incorporated U.S. Department of Agriculture P.O. Box 927 660 First Avenue 14th & Independence Ave., SW Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927 New York, NY 10016-3241 Washington, DC 20250 (800) 433-9016 (212) 683-1515 (202) 720-2908 (708) 228-5005

American Association Child Welfare League Emergency Medical Services of Retired Persons 440 First St., NW, Ste. 310 for Children 601 "F." St., NW Washington, DC 20001-2085 National Resource Center Washington, DC 20049 (202) 638-2952 111 Michigan Avenue, NW (202) 434-2277 Washington, DC 20010-2970 (202) 939-4827

American College of Children's Defense Fund Families and Work Institute Obstetricians & Gynecologists 25 "E" Street, NW 330 7th Avenue 409 12th Street SW Washington, DC 20001 New York, NY 10001 Washington, DC 20024 (202) 628-8787 (212) 465-2044 (202) 638-5577 Family Resource Coalition National Association National PTA 200 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1520 of Child Advocates 700 North Rush Street Chicago, IL 60604 162:5 K St., NW, Suite 510 Chicago, IL 60611-2571 (312) 341-0900 Washington, DC 20006 (312) 787-0977 (202) 828-6950

Family Service America National Association Parents Anonymous, Inc. 11700 West Lake Park Drive of Child Care Resource 520 S. LaFayette Park Place Milwaukee, WI 53224 and Referral Agencies Suite 316 (414) 359-1040 P. 0. Box 40246 Los Angeles, CA 90057-1607 Washington, DC 20016 (213) 388-6685 (202) 333-4194

Head Start Bureau National Association for the Reading Is Fundamental P.O. Box 1182 Education of Young Children 600 Maryland Ave., SW, Ste. 600 Washington, DC 20013 1509 16th St., NW Washington, DE 20024 (202) 245-0560 Washington, DC 20036-1426 (202) 287-3220 (800) 424-2460 (202) 232-8777

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies National Association of Safe Kids Campaign 409 12th St. SW, Rm. 309 Children's Hospitals National Coalition to Washington, DC 20024-2188 & Related Institutions Prevent Childhood Injury (202) 863-2458 401 Wythe Street 111 Michigan Ave., NW Alexandria, VA 22314 Washington, DC 20010 (703) 684-1355 (202) 939-4993

Holland and Knight National Commission United Way of America P.O. Box 015441 to Prevent Infant Mortality 701 N. Fairfax St. Miami, FL 33101 Switzer Building, Rm. 2014 Alexandria, VA 22314 (305) 374-8500 330 C St., SW (703) 836-7100 Washington, DC 20201 (202) 472-1364

Kiwanis Pediatric National Committee for YMCA of the USA Trauma Institute Prevention of Child Abuse 101 North Wacker Drive New England Medical Center 332 S. Michigan Ave., Ste. 1600 Chicago, IL 60606 750 Washington St., Box 344 Chicago, IL 60604-4357 (312) 977-0031 Boston, MA 02111 (312) 663-3520 (617) 956-6381

La Leche League International National Council Zem to Three 9616 Mirmeapolis Ave. of Jewish Women 2000 14th St. N., Ste. 380 P.O. Box 1209 53 W. 23rd St. Arlington, VA 22201 Franklin Park, IL 60131-8209 New York, NY 10010 (703) 528-4300 (708) 455-7730 (212) 645-4048

March of Dimes National Head Start Association Birth Defects Foundation 201 N. Union St., Ste. 320 National Headquarters Alexandria, VA 22314 1275 Mamaroneck Ave. (703) 739-0875 White Plains, NY 10605 (914) 428-7100

1Y2 (49 ,-, ., 1993-94 District Committee Chairmen 4 for Young Children: Priority One Young Children PRIORITY ONE

Alabama Carolinas Kentucky-Tennessee Joe L. Dean Thomas J. Dimmock James G. Ware P. 0. Box 848 8469 Bournemouth Dr. 1071 Constitution Drive Opelika, AL 36803-0848 Raleigh, NC 27615 Chattanooga, TN 37405-4246 Home: 205/745-4935 Home:919/847-0440 Bus: 205/749-5631 Bus: 919/781-4442 Fax: 919/781-5052

Australia E.C. & C. La-Miss-W.Tenn Duncan F. MacKenzie Not available at time of Kendal D. McDaniel 4 Edinburgh Ave. printing. 4413 Clearlake Drive Stonyfell, SA 5066 Metairie, LA 70006-2217 AUSTRALIA Bus: 61-8/332-1204 Fax: 61-8 / 223-1934

Cal-Nev-Ha Florida Michigan Marion Avakian Robert E: Marx James D. Walder 13010 Maclay St. 106 Meadowlark Dr. 10922 Chicago Road Sylmar, CA 91342-4937 Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 Warren, MI 48093-5559 Home: 407/793-6226 Joseph R. Chavoen Jr. 5320 Proctor Road Castro Valley, CA 94546-1534 Georgia Minnesota-Dakotas James G. Merritt Myron Larson Kenneth Kline 542 Gregg Dr. P. 0.Dox 337 269 Avenida Loberio #A Lilburn, GA 30247-5210 Alexandria, MN 56308-0337 San Clemente, CA 92672-4453 Home: 404/923-4883 Elmer C. Snyder 2300 El Portal Drive #48 Illinois-E. Iowa Missouri-Arkansas Bakersfield, CA 93309-4281 Not available at time of Thomas M. Flowers printing. 1210 Mount Carmel Road Donald G. Vanlue Cabot, AR 72023-9531 22750 3rd Street Hayward, CA 94541-4304 Indiana Montana Frank E. Walsh Bernard L. Render Not available at time of 653 Byrdee Way 6011 E. 42nd St. printing. Lafayette, CA 94549-1701 Indianapolis, IN 46226 Home: 317/545-9593

Capital Kansas Nebraska-lowa Rudolph R. Russo Not available at time of James Underwood 5005 Euclid St. printing. 1111 9th St., #180 Virginia Beach, VA 23462 Des Moines, IA 50314 Home: 804/340-7376 Home: 515/255-6739 1 g3 New England Philippine Luzon West Virginia Robert A. Masys Hernan M. Miraflores J. W. "Bill" Dixon Jr., D.D.S. 1 Masys Way 1357 Candelaria St. 1858 Loudon Hts. Rd. Haverhill, MA 91832-1070 Makati Charleston, WV 25314 Home: 508 /373-7414 1200 Metro Manila Home: 304/342-0352 Bus: 508/372-0449 PHILIPPINES Fax: 508 /372-7183

New Jersey Philippine South Western Canada Louis Gianndrea Not available at time of Harland Bell 88 Grove Street printing. 19 Ashgrove Blvd. Sicklerville, NJ 98981-9394 Brandon, MB R7B 1C3 CANADA Home: 204/726-8752 Bus: 204/728-7234

New York Rocky Mountain W3consin-Upper Michigan James W. Reed Ms. Jerry D. Sheeley Susan K. Rowe 766 Guy Lombardo Ave. P. 0. Box 6652 920 Lake Road Freeport, NY 11520-6213 Denver, CO 80206 Altoona, WI 54720-1841 Home:516 /223-4316 Home: 303/794-7387 Home:715 /832-0210 Bus: 212/455-3838 Bus: 715 /832-3401 Fax: 212/455-3144

New Zealand Southwest Hugh A. Cowan Walter E. "Walt" Smith 31 Tainui Street 12426 Banyon Dr. Tokoroa Sun City West, AZ 85375 NEW ZEALAND Home: 602/584-5186

Ohio Texas-Oklahoma William E. Spreen William T. Miller 1206 Jeremy Ct. 101 Jynteewood Street Cincinnati, OH 45240 Canyon, TX 79015-1705 Home: 513/825-1187 Home: 806/655-1846 Bus: 806/378-1088 Pacific-Northwest Robert ]. Towe John F. Yegge 3300 NW 45th Terrace 2426 Alexander Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73112-5908 Richland, WA 99352-1603 Home: 509/375-0225

Pennsylvania Utah-idaho James C. Eicher Not available at time of R. R. 7 Box 329 A printing. Greensburg, PA 15601 Home: 412/837-8431

I4 03/93 QUARTERLY REPORTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE

OCTOBER 1, 1993 :!'e r=?Ecr: Young Children IliPRIORITY ONE

JANUARY 10, 1904 APRIL 10, 1994 JULY 10, 1994 OCTOBER 10, 1994

Your participation in the quarterly report system helps increase Kiwanis service to young children. Quarterly reports:

Give you opportunities to ask for help. Help direct you to materials and resources developed and used by other Kiwanis clubs. Help connect your club to local experts from member organizations of the Priority One Advisory Council. Help determine the direction of the Young Children program and the need for new materials to support club interests.

The report is a scan form, designed to be "read" by a computer. Please review the fcllowing instructions carefully before completing the report.

HANDLING THE FORM:

DO NOT INTERFERE WITH CODED BLACK MARKS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FORM. DO NOT CUT, TEAR, OR HOLE-PUNCH. DO NOT STAPLE OR TAPE FORM. SUBMIT ORIGINAL FORM ONLY. PHOTOCOPIES OR CARBONS CANNOT BE READ BY THE COMPUTER.

MARKING THE RECTANGLES: EXAMPLE A: --0111111C USE A BLACK SOFT-LEADED PENCIL ONLY (NO. 2, PROPER MARKS: =11 USE ONLY A BLACK, SOFT-LEADED PENCIL (NO. 2). DO NOT USE INK. IMPROPER MARKS: MARK EACH RECTANGLE CLEARLY. (See Example A) ;A ERASE MISTAKES THOROUGHLY WITH A REGULAR PENCIL ERASER. X DO NOT USE CORRECTING FLUID. MAKE NO STRAY MARKS.

COMPLETING THE TOP SECTION: Information requested in the top section identifies your club and the person i eporting. Please print clearly when completing this section.

YES OR NO QUESTIONS: Choose the correct answer and mark the rectangle.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: When applicable, you may choose more than one answer. Fill in the rectangles representing your responses.

ATTACH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION: If you write a brief narrative in response to questions on the first, second, arid third quarter reports. please use a separate sheet of paper. Do not write on the back of the scan form or attach the descriptionto the scan forrn with staples or tape, since both actiorm will make the report unusable. Instead, please enclose yourdescription in the same envelope when you mail the report.

C,,AP/IP,Nrr,f1WVAIW)fl 11, Olgi C CI525 5 3 7I 1,11CANTROWFORM HO F. lo35-10 185 IF THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION IS A NUMBER OR DOLLAR AMOUNT: EXAMPLE B:

1. Round-off money amounts to the nearest dollar.

2. Write the numerals in the boxes between the question and the rows of rectangles. 04

3.When you have fewer digits to your answer than there are response boxes, fill in the blank boxes to the left of your response with zeros. See example B. This example asks for the number of people who benefitted by your club's Young Children project. If 47 people benefitted, you should write "047" in the boxes.

4. In each column of rectangles, mark the rectangle corresponding to the numeral you wrote in the box above. Fill in only one rectangle in each column.

IF THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION IS NONE OR ZERO: EXAMPLE C:

Write zeros in the numeral boxes, then mark all zero rectangles corresponding to that question. See Example C.

CLUBS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES:

On the initial report, please enter your telephone number beginning at the left of the rectangles, and leave the extra spaces blank at the right.

In response to the first quarter question about networking, please list organizations with which your club is working on a separate sheet. Information you supply about cooperating groups will be shared with other clubs in your country. Do not write on the b3ck of the form or attach your note with staples or tape, since both actions will make the report unusable.

HAVE QUESTIONS? NEED HELP?

If you need clarification or assistance, please call the Program Development Department at Kiwanis International. We will be happy to assist you.

Toll free in the U.S. and Canada, 800/879-4760. All other countries. 317/875- 8755.

WHERE TO SEND YOUR REPORTS:

The report should be mailed, by the due date indicated on each, to:

Program Development Department Kiwaniiihternational 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, Indiana 46268-3196 USA 1s6

BEST CUMMaga INMAL REPORT Due October 1. 1993 ON YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Use only a black, soft-leaded pencil.

To be completed by the club chairman for Young Children:Priority One.

Kiwanis Club of Club Chairman Ltate/ Province/Country Address' District Division Daytime Phone Club Key Number Did your club conduct one or more Young Children: Priority One projects during the Tin BLOCK (Obtain from 1992-93 administrative year? = Yes -72. No FOR OFFICE club secretary): Does your club plan to conduct one or more Young Children: Priority One projects during the USE ONLY:

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BEST COPYtattilatE si Due January 10. 1994 FIRST QUARTER REPORT For period October 1. 1993 December 31. 1993 ON YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Use only a black. soft-leaded pencil.

To be completed by the club chairman for Young Children: PriorityOne.

Kiwanis Club or Club Chair. an. State/Province Country. Address District Division Daytime Phone ( Club Key Number Has your club conducted one or more Young Children: Priority One projects since THIS BLOCK (Obtain from October 1. 1993? = Yes = No FOR OFFICE club secretary): Does your club plan to conduct one or more Young Children: Priority One projectsduring the USE ONLY: remainder of the 1993-94 administrative year? = Yes = No 3:occo 0:0.030_Cr- Please indicate assistance you would like from your district chairman for YoungChildren. Xa cra -1:_1.131i. Advice on fund-raising = Advice on working with other Kiwanis clubs 2'2--2--2- a= Advice on publicity = Local contacts with other organizations a.2- -= Review of Young Children plans Advice on working with other organizations tza uouvl 2t :4.3'4--4_ =2 Young Children project suggestions None :5- .7-7Other 13zi033 66 6--..-6--6- Lit) 777'.7*7.- r.S7 88888 9,9,9.99. 41 -Su Networking Please mark the groups with which your club is working or would liketo work:

N N, '164;"Po4,/ 0.4 s, N (74* N 'to sN .. Maternal and Infant Health '- Parent Education and Support Cooperative Extension Service = 1 = Church/synagogue o Family service acency Committee for the Prevention of Child AbuseI = Health department Family resource center Healthy Mothers. Healthy Babies Focus on the Family Hospital Homeless shelter La Leche Leacue Library March of Dimes Parent education program Nurse Parents Anonymous Obstetrician YMCA/YWCA Pediatrician Other Pregnancy center Social worker Safety and Pediatric Trauma United Way Hospital/doctor/nurse WIC Assistance Program Children's Miracle Network Telethon Other government agency C=1 Fire/police department Other Kiwanis Trauma Center Red Cross Child Care and Development Rescue squad Child care resource and referral agency Safe Kids Coalition Church/synagogue Other Child care center Head Star t Library Reading Is Funoamental Preschool/other school Mail this form to: Sesame Street Pe--...:nool Education Project (PEP) Program Development Department Toy library Kiwanis International YMCA, YWC.1:. = = t 3636 Woodview Trace Other 0 Indianapolis, Indiana 46268-3196 USA We would like to learn more about how your club is working with the groups youmarked above. If possible, please enclose a separate note briefly describino activity. me rim Due April 10. 1994 SECOND QUARTER REPORT For period October 1. 1993 Mar= 31. 1994 ON YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Use only a black, soft-leaded pencil.

To be completed by the club chairman for Young Children: Priority One.

Kiwanis Cluo ot Chairman State/Province Country. Address District

Division Daytime Phone ( Club Key NumberHas your club conducted one or more Young Children: Priority One projects since THIS BLOCK (Obtain from October 1. 1993? = Yes = No FOR OFFICE club secretary): Does your club plan to conduct one or more Young Children: Priority One projects during the USE ONLY: remainder of the 1993-94 administrative year? :=.Yes = No cu La. 0: cr Please indicate assistance you would like from your district chairman for Young Children. 01CO3 = Advice on fund-raising Advice on working with other Kiwanis clubs 2: 2. 22 7 2 = Advice on publicity Local contacts witn other organizations -3: -3 3 = Review of Young Children plans Advice on working with other organizations -Xc:1) 47: 711.: -4] 4 et Young Children project suggestions None .C1:43 5= :5: L5.:. _55 Other 6 62 6 6_ Projects 7- 7 7 7 7 Mark the typeS of projects your club has conductec in 1993-94 - or plans to ccnduct during the 7- 8 8 8 8 8 remainder of the vear. Please answer additional questions at the right to indicate how otherKiwanrs 8: 8 99999 clubs can benent from your club s experience 9 9 (i'sq cC> q; <> of: °O,\ c-6'<6'.-v6'. lo ,, - o o-. oi;

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Kiwanis Club of. Club Chairman. State/Province/ Country Address. District Daytime Phonu Club Key Number Has your club conducted one or more Young Children: Priority One projects since MIS BLOCK (Obtain from October 1, 1993? = Yes = No . FOR OFFICE club secretary): Does your club plan to conduct one or more Young Children: Priority One projects during the USE ONLY: remainder of the 1993-94 administrative year? = Yes No

3:12. Please indicate assistance you wouid like from your district chairman for Young Children. = Advice on fund-raising =I Advice on working with other Kiwanis clubs = Advice on puolicity = Local contacts with other organizations =32= = Review of Young Children plans = Advice on working with other organizations Young Children prolect suggestions= None = Other 35: :5:re: If your club implemented a Young Children project this year. has your lieutenant governor 7:7= 7: -77 7: awarded it a banner patch? = Yes No

Materia s Please mark the materials yOur club used in 1993-94. indicating your opinion of them. \ \ ciss, \ ". \\ o\ N\\, \ " \If-4\c?.C, \ (%), 11> ,c4 \ opo PO 1 Reading Is Fundamental =I=1 =It= PO 2 Head Start = = ! PO 3 Scald Burns =ID = 1 = 1 PO 4 Smoking Awareness = PO 5Parenting Fair PO 6 Children s Miracle Network Teiethon PO 7Smoke Detector Safety PO 8 Pediatric Trauma PO 9 Home Safety Checklist PO 10 Awareness and Prevention ot Child Abuse PO 11 Shaken Baby Syndrome PO 12 Parents Anonymous PO 13 Parenting Education PO 14 Immunizations PO 15 Preventing Fetal Alcohol Effects PO 16 Lead Poisoning Prevention PO 17 Home Visitation Programs YS 29 Safety Seat Loan Program Community Needs Survey Fact Brochure Overview for the Club Young Children Chairman Prolect Idea List Mail this form to: Tip Sheets on Fund Raising and Evaluation Program Development Department Other Kiwanis International 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, Indiana 46268-3196 190 USA

If you have ideas for improving Young Children materials or suggestions for new materials,please enclose a separate note. sin Due October 10. 1994 FOURTH QUARTER REPORT For period October 1. 1993 September 30. 1994 ON YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE Use only a black. soft-leaded pencil. To be completed by the club chairman tor Young Children:Priority One.

~~Kiwanis Club of Club Chairman State/Province/Country: Address' District. Division' Daytime Phone (~~

Club Key Number Total funds spent on Total hours by Total number of people involvedin Young THIS BLOCK (Obtain from Young Children projects members on Young Children projects since Oct. 1.1993: FOR OFFICE club secretary): since Oct. 1, 1993: Children projects Volunteers Recipients of (Please report in your country s since Oct. 1, 1993: USE ONLY: currency ) Members outside club club's sepice .0 0 CC ---0.3 LW 3:C. 32: LID Or al: 31_. :21 :IL- 3.12C Z0 :EU 22C 20) SC aC

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1 1 1. 3: 10 : 333 02 Yes = No 1 1 2222 :a: I:: 1 22222 2. z..33.333 zaJ 33.3: _Z Do you recommend more 3 -4:44-44 4 4 44 3: 73- 7M -23 training be provided to 5 .5 5555 ..4: :4 .: 42.4 5s 5 future Young Children I 6 _61.5 . 5 a6666 66 chairman? 7.7 7-7 7_ 77 :EC _606 . 77 7 8 a.a 8 77. -77 :72113-4- 7- L.-7: Yes No 88 8a 999 9-999 B_. Er3 8 :8 99 99 93 9 9 Please mark the three sources of information that were Club support of DISTRICT Young Children projects most helpful to you: since Oct. 1. 1993: Club president Outside organization (local level) Funds: Service hours: Lieutenant governor Outside organization istate level) .0 0 0 7.7District Young Children chairman .7.=Printed materials from Kiwanis international Ea: D.. a .1 -t- -1 1 1 : Community analysis Other 1 22-2- Other Kiwanis clubs -.2- 2--z2 a- 3 33 a:3333 4;44444 4:4444 S:5.55-5 5 5555 5 1 6-6 6-5. 6-66 7-7777T -7.777 7 Please indicate your views about the Young 88 8 a a8 Children: Priority One program: .s.9 su-9 .9_ My club is interested in the program. My club supports Young Children projects. Please make a copy of this report and give it to your club secretary for use in the annual club report. It should be the ongoing focus program of Kiwanis. The needs it addresses are important to my community. Mail this form to: The program is establishing a name for Kiwanis in my community. = = = = Program Development Department The program's service should be more focused. Kiwanis International It should have a broader service range. = = = = 3636 Woodview Trace More information about projects should be available = = 1 9 1 Indianapolis, Indiana 46268-3196 Other USA Spread the word... Young Children: $069 Priority One

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