The Emergency Department and Trauma Center at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland are here to help if your child is injured. But we’d rather help prevent the injury in the first place.

The information on these pages may keep your child out of harm's way. By some estimates, 90 percent of unintentional injuries can be avoided.

Injury Prevention Information For Download:

Keeping Safe From Injury

Practical guidance on how to keep your children safe in the modern world. 

Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Laotian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Farsi and Arabic.
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A Starter Kit For ChildrenWith Special Needs

A comprehensive publication designed to help parents of severely injured children, or parents of children diagnosed with an illness affecting their development.
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Keep Your Kids Safe In & Around Cars

Important safety tips to protect children in and around cars. At least 50 children are backed over in driveways and parking lots in the US each week. Available in Spanish.
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For Children with Special Needs: Keeping Safe from Injury (PDF)
(funded by the The Kiwanis Cal-Nev-Ha Foundation)

Injury prevention information, emergency preparedness tips, safe transportation options for children with special needs, as well as online resources for families.
Available in Spanish.
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Special Needs Car Seat Loaner Program

Program offers help if your child will be in a spica cast following orthopedic surgery and needs a car seat.
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Children's thanks its generous supporter, the Kohl’s Cares for Kids® Program.

Also thanks to the Kiwanis Cal-Nev-Ha Foundation for funding Keeping Safe from Injury for Children with Special Needs.