ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation

Educational Programs for Reducing Injury

Each year, an estimated 500,000 persons in the United States sustain a brain or spinal cord injury. In fact, injury is the leading cause of death among children and teens. The most frequent causes of these injuries are motor vehicle crashes, violence, falls, sports, and recreation. The good news is that most injuries are preventable!

The ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation's award-winning, evidence-based programs are aimed at helping children, youth, and teens learn to reduce their risk for injury. ThinkFirst programs educate young people about their personal vulnerability and the importance of making safe choices.

The message is “use your mind to protect your body”. As an educator, you are constantly trying to teach your students the consequences of poor choices and the importance of good decision-making. ThinkFirst is an injury prevention program that can assist you in this effort.  

Our unique and powerful tool is our VIPs (Voices for Injury Prevention). These are individuals who have sustained a traumatic injury through a poor choice that they or someone else made. They live with the consequences daily by dealing with a lifelong disability.   VIPs provide their personal testimony and peer-to-peer interaction with students so that others can learn from their mistakes and prevent a traumatic injury or death.

Partnered with our VIP’s is a health educator who will provide valuable information about how most injuries in our community occur, how to prevent them, and demonstrate models of the brain and spinal cord to discuss what happens to these parts of the body when they are injured.  

This program is evidence-based and available to your school at no cost. The program can be fully customized to meet time constraints or to focus on a particular issue facing a school (i.e. recent drowning, fatal car accident, violent act, prom night, etc).  

Please call us to schedule a program or if you have questions. Thank you for your time and caring about the safety and well-being of your students.  

(803) 252-2198 (866) 445-5509 toll free

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