"The calm after the storm".
The vision of Injury Free Coalition for Kids is that children and families will live in safe communities; our mission is to create them. After the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, members of Injury Free Coalition for Kids went to Biloxi, Miss, to develop a coalition of community stakeholders in order to build playgrounds for 2 neighborhoods in Biloxi. As child advocates, we know that play is the work of children, and through play, children exposed to disaster can rediscover joy.
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Injury Free Coalition for Kids, National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. sj2110@columbia.edu
D000056:Accident Prevention; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008922:Mississippi / Q000453:epidemiology; D016730:Program Development; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*