Austin-Travis County EMS 2022 Annual Report

Our Community Relations and Injury Prevention team is responsible for community engagement, marketing and communications, public relations, and education and outreach activities for ATCEMS Injury Prevention programs. RESPONSIBILITIES Coordination and management of EMS Community Education and Injury Prevention programming. Design and production of all marketing and training materials for EMS community relations

Community Education and Injury Prevention programs. Production of training, educational, and promotional videos.

Coordination of EMS Department participation at community events, health and safety fairs, and community engagement and outreach opportunities.

education through experience

Injury Prevention Programs

Child Passenger Safety

Safe Baby Academy

Senior Home Safety

Education plays a key role in the overall improvement of health and wellness when it influences at all levels and in a variety of environments and settings. Realizing the vision of healthy people in healthy communities is possible only if the community, in its full cultural, social, and economic diversity, is an authentic partner in changing the conditions for health and safety. We address this challenge by providing a variety of free, bilingual programs and services designed with early intervention and prevention in mind.

The grant-funded Child Passenger Safety program conducts monthly car seat

Our Safe Baby Academy program is a free, two-hour online class providing education and resources to families and parents/caregivers of infants and children less than 12 months of age. The program curriculum includes Safe Sleep Education, Child Passenger Safety, Infant CPR/Choking, Hyperthermia Awareness, and Water Safety.

Elderly falls are attributed to a significant amount of both dispatches and transports to the Emergency Room when compared to other traumatic call types, and most of these falls occur in the home. Austin Travis County EMS has a team of trained personnel who conduct free home safety assessments to identify potential risks and hazards for slips, trips and falls in the home environment.

inspections and provides free car and booster seats to families in need. In 2022 we hosted 48 Car Seat Check events and three Booster Seat events. The team conducted 34 virtual Safe Baby Academy classes online and certified new Child Passenger Safety Technicians within the Austin District.

connecting people with ideas, resources, and hope.

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