GUIDE

Safety and Injury Prevention

We understand that, as a parent, you want to protect your child as much as possible. At CHOC, we are dedicated to injury prevention because we believe injuries shouldn’t put childhood on pause. CHOC’s trauma center treats more than 10,000 children with injuries every year. Most of these injuries are predictable and preventable.

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Safety Guides

CHOC’s safety and injury prevention team has curated the following in-depth guides on important safety topics for parents, kids and teens. Each guide has resources like articles, podcasts, and videos to help parents navigate various safety concerns and protect their kids.

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Home and Window Safety

Water Safety and Drowning Prevention

Sun Safety and Skin Protection

Car and Travel Safety

Bike and Helmet Safety

Learn more about CHOC’s Pediatric Trauma Center

A traumatic injury can happen at any time: a car accident, a fall, an animal bite. CHOC is ready to treat traumatic injuries 24 hours a day. Critically injured children from across the region are transported and transferred to CHOC for the pediatric expertise only a level 1 pediatric trauma center can provide.

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Safety and Injury Prevention Resources

Safety Education Classes

CHOC’s community education department offers a variety of classes and programs designed to keep you and your child safe and healthy, including:

School programs that can be brought to your school or group at no cost
Safe Sitter, a nationally accredited childcare course
“Three Tragic Seconds” drowning prevention program
Child passenger safety class

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Additional Resources

Safety Partners

CHOC is committed to protecting the safety and well-being of all children. By providing education, research and evidence-based programs in collaboration with the community, our injury prevention and community education teams strive to make Orange County the safest county in America.

Find a CHOC Primary Care Pediatrician

From babies to teens, pediatricians from CHOC’s Primary Care Network partner with parents to offer immunizations, sick visits, sports physicals and more.

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