Programs & Campaigns

Brain Waves

Brain Waves is a free neuroscience-based educational program developed by leading neuroscientists at the University of Toronto. Since 2005, engaging, informative and passionate volunteers have brought the program to students in grades 4 to 6.

Elementary School Injury Prevention Toolkit

The Injury Prevention Centre has developed this toolkit to help elementary educators teach the importance of injury prevention in alignment with the Alberta Education Curriculum. The toolkit includes resources that support different types of learners, including kinesthetic, auditory, visual, and social learners.

Finding Balance

Finding Balance is an education program and public awareness campaign designed to educate and empower older Albertans to stay independent and prevent falls.

Poison Prevention in Action

For National Poison Prevention Week, the Injury Prevention Centre and our partners will be focusing on sharing messages with parents and caregivers to prevent medication poisoning in children.

Prescription 4 Safety

Prescription for Safety (P4S) is a set of easy-to-understand resources designed for professionals who work with families, such as doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, and childcare providers to start conversations with parents and caregivers about preventing childhood injuries.

SPHEReS

The School Physical Activity, Health, & Education Resource for Safety guidelines have been developed to assist school authorities in their formulation of site-specific safety guidelines for physical activity in Alberta schools.

These Lands.

The University of Alberta, its buildings, labs, and research stations are primarily located on the territory of the Néhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, Nakoda (Stoney), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway / Saulteaux), lands that are now known as part of Treaties 6, 7 and 8 and homeland of the Métis. The University of Alberta respects the sovereignty, lands, histories, languages, knowledge systems and cultures of all First Nations, Métis and Inuit nations.

The Injury Prevention Centre is part of the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta and is dedicated to helping Albertans and our governments make safe choices the easy choices.

Funding for the Centre is provided, in whole or in part, by Alberta Health. Provisions of funding by Alberta Health does not signify that this project represents the policies or views of Alberta Health.

Administration

School of Public Health

University of Alberta

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INJURY PREVENTION CENTRE
4-248 ECHA, University of Alberta
11405 87 Ave NW
Edmonton AB T6G 1C9

Telephone: 1.780.492.6019