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Montreal Children's Hospital Trauma
Each year at The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre 15,000 children are treated for traumatic injuries. That's over 41 infants, children or teenagers a day who have been injured in a multitude of ways such as snowboarding, skiing, tobogganing or playing hockey. Motor vehicle collisions often result in lifelong consequences. The MCH also sees far too many children injured by falling down stairs or off changing tables, scalding hot water, or ingesting noxious chemicals.
The bilingual site is designed to provide visitors with up-to-date, timely, clear, concise, practical, trustworthy and professional information on, ideally, how to avoid being injured, but also how to treat common injuries such as burns, ankle sprains, concussions, dental trauma and others.
Recreation Professionals can find all their training and professional development needs and schools and training organizations can connect with their audience directly.
To provide fitness leaders with a sense of pride in their work and their skills.
Sports Medicine Council of Alberta
To develop, promote and coordinate programs and services optimizing safe and healthful participation in sport, recreation and leisure activities for all Albertans.
Canadian Health Network / Réseau canadien de la Santé
CHN's goal is to help Canadians find the information on how to stay healthy and prevent disease. / Le RCS aide les Canadiennes et Canadiens à trouver l'information pour rester en santé et prévenir la maladie.
A personalized visual exercise program created to suit specific needs by designing protocols for different parts of the body or for different types of sports.
National Eating Disorder Information Center
The National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) is a Toronto-based, non-profit organization, established in 1985 to provide information and resources on eating disorders and weight preoccupation.
The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online is your source for primary care, sports, medicine, clinical and personal health articles.
Providing training and consulting services in the field of Aquatics Safety, Water Rescue, Ice Rescue, and EMS for the Lifeguard and Aquatic Recreation and Safety Sector, as well as for the Public Safety and Rescue Sector.
Consumer Product Safety Council
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $700 billion annually. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the 30 percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.
Swimming is a fun, active, and healthy way to spend leisure time. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthy Swimming program offers information and resources to raise awareness about Recreational Water Illness and how to prevent them by practicing "Healthy Swimming" behaviors.
WHO Violence and Injury Prevention
To prevent injuries and violence, to mitigate their consequences, and to enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities irrespective of the causes.
Gatorade Sports Science Institute
To share current information and expand knowledge on sports nutrition and exercise science that enhance the performance and well-being of athletes.
National Alliance for Youth Sports
NAYS promotes the value and importance of sports and physical activities in the emotional, physical, social and mental development of youth, and seeks to make the sports experience safe, fun and healthy for all children.
Promoting active and healthy lifestyles.
To provide leadership, conduct scientific research and engage in service or outreach that transforms the face of youth sports in ways that maximize the beneficial physical, psychological and social effects of participation for children and youth while minimizing detrimental effects.
Promotes changes in attitudes, behaviors, laws and the environment to prevent accidental injury to children.
Providing an interactive web site and associated service which support Alberta practitioners in the areas of health promotion, injury prevention and population health.
A national multi-sector initiative that will enable Canadian Communities to implement harassment and abuse prevention strategies that make their recreation services safer.
A parenting community to call your own, with a library of information on all the ages and stages of your growing family, fun tools and features, discussion forums to swap advice with other parents, and contests that give you the chance to win fantastic prizes.
Sport BC is a proactive voice for sport, and a provider of quality programs and services to its membership.
To provide leadership and resources for its members to create safe environments in sport and recreation for all New Brunswickers.
Dedicated to providing and promoting females in sport.
Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program
For surveillance of childhood injuries across Canada./p>
Promoting intellectual growth and creativity by developing collections, facilitating access to information resources, teaching the effective use of information resources and critical evaluation skills and offering research assistance.
Injury Control Resource Information Network
A dynamic list of key Internet accessible resources related to the field of injury research and control.
Physical and Sports Medicine Online
This site is your source for primary care sports medicine clinical and personal health articles -- and for helpful resources like Sports Medicine Clinics and Fellowships lists. It is also your link to the rest of the sports medicine community.
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
We compile statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people.
Injury Prevention Research Unit (University of Otago)
The Unit maintains national injury databases for the purpose of identifying new hazards and evaluating interventions. It also hosts NIQS, the National Injury Query System, a web-based public injury statistics service.
Canadian Athletic Therapists Association
Dedicated to the promotion and delivery of the highest quality care to active individuals through injury prevention, emergency services and rehabilitative techniques.
Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine
To be a leader in advancing the art and science of sport medicine including health promotion and disease prevention, for the benefit of all Canadians through programs of advocacy, education, research and service.
Canadian Sport Massage Therapists Association
To educate athletes, coaches, and parents at the grass roots-level and up about the benefits of sport massage.
Insitute for Preventative Sports Medicine
To conduct medical research oriented to finding effective and practical ways to reduce sports-related injuries and speed the rehabilitation of injured athletes, and to develop resources to fund research for the same purposes, by other researchers and institutions.
The Injury Prevention Web hosts the Web sites of several agencies and organizations working to prevent injuries. This site contains a weekly literature update of recent journal articles and agency reports, injury data for every U.S. state, more than 1400 links to government and non-profit injury prevention sites worldwide, suggestions of books for your library, and the gateway for information about scheduled NIITS teleconference sessions.
Association of Play Industries
The lead trade body within the play sector, representing the interests of the manufacturers, installers, designers and distributors of both outdoor and indoor play equipment and safer surfacing.
Promoting injury-free survival strategies in high-risk environments including sport and recreational activities, and travel on the road.
Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association
The Mission of the Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association is to advocate for the Therapeutic Recreation Profession and our Membership.
Providing links to research, reports, how-to manuals, planning & assessment tools, lesson plans and student webquests.
To reduce preventable deaths, injuries and destruction on Ontario's roads through public education and safety awareness.
To prevent drowning and water-related injury through our training programs, public education and aquatic safety management services.
We help people deal with situations that threaten their survival and safety, their security and well-being, their human dignity; in Canada and around the world.
Offering innovative programs and products, ensuring Canadians receive the best quality training and expertise.
Providing service in Maritime safety (preparation, prevention and response), protection of the marine and freshwater environment, facilitating maritime commerce and sustainable development, support of marine scientific excellence, and support of Canada's maritime priorities.
Hockey Development Centre For Ontario
HDCO is a joint project of the Government of Ontario and the amateur hockey bodies in Ontario. HDCO was created to establish 'one voice' for amateur hockey in Ontario and to play a coordinating role between the member organizations. Check out the various sections of the site that are designed to help anyone interested in this sport.
Parks and Recreation Ontario / Parcs et Loisirs Ontario
An all-inclusive, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for the people of Ontario.
An injury prevention program for children in preschool through grade 8.
To help raise child safety awareness by empowering children and parents with knowledge that they can draw from in case of an emergency or dangerous situation
International IN-line Skating Association
The IISA develops educational programs, promotes safe skating, and protects and expands access to public skate ways across the country.
Dedicated to protecting life and promoting health.
American College of Sports Medicine
Promotes and integrates scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to maintain and enhance physical performance, fitness, health, and quality of life.
Addressing violent and aggressive behaviour in sport.
To give you information and free online learning about discrimination, harassment and child protection.
Canadian Institute for Child Health
Dedicated to promoting and protecting the health, well-being and rights of all children and youth through monitoring, education and advocacy.
Creating a safer, saner, less stressful & more inclusive youth sports experience.
To promote a child centered approach to the organization and instruction of youth sports. Special emphasis is placed on the promotion of the game of soccer as a life-long, family oriented activity, that provides for child-parent bonding, team work and friendships, as well as, adequate aerobic exercise.
A forum for dentists, physicians, trainers, coaches, dental technicians, and educators interested in exchanging ideas related to Sports Dentistry and the dental needs of athletes at risk to sports' injuries.
Non-profit risk management center
To provide assistance and resources for community-serving nonprofit organizations.
Program Activity Assessment Tool
Youth and Adult Leaders for Program Excellence source kit for those who work with, and on the behalf of, young people and for young people themselves.
The CAO is an independent, non-profit organization providing representation and recognition for coaches in a variety of contexts. This association is "coach-led" and accountable to its members who are "coaches" in all sports.
Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research
Committed to advancing the impact of prevention, emergency response, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries in Alberta.
Committed to working together to advance the health of children and youth by nurturing excellence in health care, advocacy, education, research and support of its membership.
Safe Kids Canada ensures evidence-based research is translated into best practices to reduce the number of children hurt or killed by preventable injuries.
B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit
To reduce the societal and economic burden of injury among all age groups in British Columbia through research, surveillance, education and knowledge transfer, public information and the support of evidence-based, effective prevention measures.
http://www.injuryresearch.bc.ca/
Centre for Health Promotion Studies (Alberta)
The Centre for Health Promotion Studies in the School of Public Health is committed to interdisciplinary research, graduate education, and community engagement in health promotion to advance knowledge, theory, practice, and policy in the social and behavioural determinants of health through community and academic partnerships.
Pashby Sport Concussion Safety Web Site
Websites on concussion safety for personal injuries, healthcare, pyhsicians, and medicine.
Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund
Promotes the prevention of eye, spinal cord, head and other catastrophic injuries occuring in sports and recreational activities, through public education, research, development of pervention programs and the monitoring of their effectiveness.
National Collegiate Athletics Association
To govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.
Providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.
The NSLS is a joint project between the Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection and the Lifesaving Society, Nova Scotia Branch. The provincial government funds and promotes the program while the Lifesaving Society manages the day-to-day operations of the program.
Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport
The Ministry will help Ontarians lead healthier lives by delivering programs that promote healthy choices and healthy lifestyles.
International Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance
A collection of theses and dissertations from the areas of exercise and sports sciences, health, physical education, and dance reaching back to 1947.
To help increase awareness of how important healthy workplaces are to both the short and long term success of organizations.
We advocate the integration of safety into the entire life cycle of a roadway--planning, design, engineering, environmental management, construction, and operations and maintenance.
Prevent brain and spinal cord injury through education aimed at healthy behaviours in children and youth.
For sport enthusiasts interested in sport-specific certification in Standard First Aid and CPR "C", this 16-18 hr. course focuses on sport injury prevention and care.
The Sport Alliance of Ontario offers Sport Wrapping & Taping workshops designed to introduce the basic taping and wrapping techniques used for the prevention and management of sports injuries.
Families on the Move is designed to help parents and caregivers find ways to get and keep children active. It also offers a number of ideas for families to get moving together.
The Institute for Hockey Research (IHR) is the only organization in the world that has a dedicated research agenda for the scientific investigation of hockey.
Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services Ontario
Ensuring that Ontario's communities are supported and protected by law enforcement and public safety systems that are safe, secure, effective, efficient and accountable.
Creating a safer, saner, less stressful & more inclusive youth sports experience.
To improve the ethical quality of society by changing personal and organizational decision making and behavior.
Ontario Physical and Health Education Association
Ophea.net is an online community of individuals and organizations committed to improving the physical health and well-being of children and youth.
National Center for Injury Prevention Control
Facts, Data, Publications, & Funding Opportunities for Injury Prevention and Control.
Harassment Free Sport - Australia
Australia's primary national sports administration and advisory agency, and the cornerstone of a wide-ranging sports system.
We are involved in road safety, rail safety, workplace safety, sport safety and recreational safety, including safer celebrations.
Foundation for Active Healthy Kids
To inspiring the nation to engage all children and youth in physical activity.
Coaching Association of Canada
Info about coaching and coaching certification
To help people come together in the community to create a sense of awareness, understanding, support and leadership to implement local programmes to eliminate injuries and suffering.
Premier's Sports Award Program
By improving their basic sport skills, children will feel more comfortable in physical activity settings and will enjoy more personal success. Positive experiences will lead to feelings of pride, increased self-concept, and the skills to enhance the quality of lives through active living. The long-term goal is to support the development of healthy, active lifestyles; the short-term goal is for children to master their basic sport skills.
World Health Organizarion Violence and Injury Prevention
To prevent injuries and violence, to mitigate their consequences, and to enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities irrespective of the causes.
National Association for Sport and Physical Education
This site seeks to enhance knowledge and professional practice in sport and physical activity through scientific study and dissemination of research-based and experential knowledge to members and the public.
The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Personal Health
Articles on exercise, nutrition, injury prevention, and rehabilitation -- all written for the active individual. Lifestyle, nutrition, exercise, injury, etc.
Federal Government Department responsible for development of elite Canadian Athletes and support of Nationa sport programs. Part of the Canadian Heritage Ministry of the Government of Canada.
Information and Privacy Commissioner (Ontario)
The IPC has acted independently of government to uphold and promote open government and the protection of personal privacy in Ontario.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada
To protect and promote the privacy rights of individuals.
Equestrian Connection is Canada's largest equestrian website focusing on dressage, eventing and hunter/jumper.
Ontario Equestrian Association
A not-for-profit sport governing office that provides education, leadership and support to individuals, associations and companies in Ontario's horse community.
The site of this charitable, non-profit organization which attempts to reduce aquatic-related accidents and fatalities in Canada, provides excellent tips on water safety.
International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies
The world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
The Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disaster and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.
Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP)
CSEP is a voluntary organizations of Canadian scholars interested and involved in the scientific study of exercise physiology, exercise biochemistry, fitness and health.
Check this site for handouts, indoor safety and outdoor risk reduction tips, medical facts, history, survivor stories, photos, teacher tools and more.
Institute for Business and Home Safety
To reduce the social and economic effects of natural disasters and other property losses by conducting research and advocating improved construction, maintenance and preparation practices.
International Classification of External Causes of Injury
ICECI is a free practical tool for classifying the circumstances in which injuries occur.
A nonprofit organization committed to enriching quality of life through safe and effective physical activity.
Body and Mind (CDC Fitness for Children 9 - 13)
To promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
National Center for Bicycling and Walking
To help create bicycle-friendly and walkable communities across North America by encouraging and supporting the efforts of individuals, organizations, and agencies.=
American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine
To advance the understanding, prevention and management of lower extremity sports and fitness injuries.
International Life Saving Federation
To improve aquatic life saving and resuscitation techniques; develop life saving education; exchange practical, medical and scientific experiences; encourage uniformity in life saving equipment, safety symbols and laws; promote life saving sports; help prevent pollution in our waters and to spread aquatic life saving skills to every corner in the world.
The STA continues to promote safe, natural sports turf through education and professional development.
Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise
Features original investigations, clinical studies, and comprehensive reviews on current topics in sports medicine and exercise science.
Online resource for all those looking for ideas, games and things to do for children and youth, or just looking for ideas in general for parties or events.
WorkCover SA is funded by employers to manage a balanced and financially sound system that rehabilitates, compensates and returns injured workers to safe workplaces and the community.
Ontario Human Rights Commission
The Ontario Human Rights Commission is committed to the elimination of discrimination in society by providing the people of Ontario with strong leadership and quality service: in the effective enforcement of the Ontario Human Rights Code; and in the promotion and advancement of human rights.
Ottawa Citizens for Safe Cycling
CfSC is the voluntary association of cyclists like you who work for better, safer, environmentally – friendly cycling in Ottawa.
Play by the Rules provides information and online learning about how to prevent and deal with discrimination, harassment and child abuse for the sport and recreation industry.
For kids, BAM! Body and Mind will tell you all you need to know about all the stuff that matters.
The following pages of this website will provide you with the most current injury statistics in Canada.
YouthSafe Outdoors helps decision makers, leaders and parents/guardians provide and model for youth, safe education and recreation experiences, by providing quality risk management and safety education resources, training and consultation services.
Silent Edge - Advocacy for Figure Skate
Silent Edge provides information and links of interest for those concerned about sexual abuse and exploitation in figure skating (and in all sports), and other advocacy issues for skaters.
Le RCS se veut un moyen d'aider les Canadiennes et les Canadiens à faire des choix éclairés à propos de leur santé en mettant à leur disposition de multiples sources d'informations-santé électroniques, pratiques et fiables.
Safe Communities Ottawa (SCO) is focused on programs and initiatives in our community and workplaces that support young worker safety and also assist business in making their work environments safer for young people.
Our mission is to empower people to manage their health. We accomplish this by providing useful and up-to-date information and tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of Mayo Clinic.
Healthy Ontario / SantéOntario.com
Created to provide Ontarians with a world-leading web destination for trusted health information, services and advice for healthier living. / Créé dans le but d'offrir à la population ontarienne l'information et des service fiables sur la santé.
National Recreation and Parks Association
NRPA is the voice advocating the significance of making parks, open space, and recreational opportunities available to all Americans.
The Coaches' Information Service is designed to deliver the latest sports science information to sports practitioners including coaches, participants, physical educators and practitioners in the medical health vocations that have a sports focus.
BODYSENSE is an exciting, innovative and novel approach to healthy sport environments for athletes.
Impact: Injury Control Centre at Children's Hospital
IMPACT's focus is on preventing unintentional childhood injuries.
