WORKING WITH YOUR PEDIATRICIAN
COLLABORATION WITH PHOENIX FIRE DEPARTMENT
COLLABORATION WITH PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT
COLLABORATION WITH SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
COLLABORATION WITH ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT
COLLABORATION WITH SOUTH PHOENIX HEALTHY START PROGRAM
COLLABORATION WITH ARIZONA STATE RIFLE AND PISTOL ASSOCIATION
FIREARM INJURY PREVENTION TRAINING
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OVERVIEW Arizona Firearm Injury Prevention Coalition increases community awareness of potential dangers of firearms and provides educational material to reduce those dangers. We promote selected firearms policies, firearms programs, and responsible behavior in using firearms, to prevent injuries and deaths to children under the age of 21. We collaborate with other groups, agencies and individuals who have similar interests, and we inform parents and future parents about safe, responsible ownership and use of firearms. We provide a gun turn-in program (see below), especially directed to parents of depressed teenagers. We also maintain a speaker's bureau to give lectures on prevention of firearm injuries in children.
WORKING WITH YOUR PEDIATRICIAN We deliver to pediatricians our free gun locks, so the physicians may offer them to parents who keep fireams at home. This program makes gun locks available to families who have the highest risk of childhood firearm injuries. Through this and similar programs, we have distributed over 7,000 free gun locks.
COLLABORATION WITH PHOENIX FIRE DEPARTMENT Phoenix Fire Department (PFD), as part of their Urban Survival Program, teaches school children firearm safety. The children hear the Eddie Eagle Program that teaches children who encounter a gun to "Stop! Don't touch! Leave the area! Tell an adult!" We provide fiream safety material to the PFD teacher for the children to take to their parents. The material advocates "Lock it up!" We point out the high rate of suicide among Arizona teens and the dangers from firearms accessible to depressed teenagers. The material we provide iincludes an offer of a free gun lock to parents. We send the free lock to the home of any parent who requests it.
COLLABORATION WITH PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT Phoenix Police Department (PPD) has many safety programs. We collaborate with the program that promotes firearm safety for firearm owners who have a lost or stolen firearm returned to them. The firearm is returned by PPD to the owner with our firearm safety information and with a free cable lock for the gun.
COLLABORATION WITH SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Southwest Human Development (SHD), founded in 1981, now has more than 40 programs, including its Early Intervention Program for infants and toddlers with disabilities, its Healthy Families Program, its Arizona Institute for Early Childhood Development, and its Birth-to-Five Helpline. SHD brings our firearm safety materials to homes in diverse Arizona neighborhoods, including those that are difficult to access, throughout Arizona. Parents with young children, including those in disadvantaged neighborhoods, can learn how to avoid childhood firearm injuries and can have a free gun lock.
COLLABORATION WITH ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT We collaborate with Arizona Game & Fish Department for our turn-in program. We want our turn-in program to reach parents of teens who may be depressed. Learn about our turn-in program on our "Gun Turn-In" page.
COLLABORATION SOUTH PHOENIX HEALTHY START PROGRAM South Phoenix Healthy Start Program offers maternal and infant case management throughout pregnancy and during the first two years of the baby's life to families of severely limited means in the high-risk areas of South Phoenix and Maryvale in Phoenix, Arizona. Caseworkers offer our free gunlocks and our injury prevention material to these families.
COLLABORATION WITH ARIZONA STATE RIFLE AND PISTOL ASSOCIATION Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association (ASRPA) conducts adult and junior shooter education programs. ASRPA promotes firearm safety, and in some of their training programs they distribute AFIPC firearm injury prevention materials to trainees. They also offer our free gun locks to trainees undergoing Carrying Concealed Weapon (CCW) training.
FIREARM INJURY PREVENTION TRAINING AFIPC conducts training sessions for emergency and trauma personnel. These Firearm Injury Prevention Training sessions are made available to physicians, nurses, technicians, and other persons providing emergency medical services or injury prevention services.
