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SAFE Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic

October 2024 SAFE Newsletter

Table of Contents:

  • SAFE’s Mission

  • Clinicians and Firearms v.2 is here!

  • Advocacy in Action

  • Share Your Story

  • SAFE Chapter Support - scrubs, print kit

  • Major Gift Announcement!

  • Support SAFE

SAFE’s mission is to ensure that all healthcare providers are equipped with skills and evidence-based knowledge to advise their patients, communities, and legislators on firearm use and ownership to prevent injuries and deaths.

 

Clinicians and Firearms Course Distribution Packet

SAFE recently unveiled an update of our educational series, Clinicians and Firearms, a unique curriculum crafted to tackle gun violence as a pressing public health issue. This dynamic, self-paced course is specially designed for medical students, physicians, nurses, and all healthcare professionals eager to make a difference.

Although the course is intended to be completed in its entirety, individual components can be treated as stand-alone to best accommodate program scheduling and goals.

Please watch the updated course, and then consider sharing the Course Distribution Packet with your institution’s curriculum leaders.

Please send an email to info@standsafe.org or to SAFE Executive Director, Allison Volkman at avolkman@standsafe.org to request a distribution packet. The packet includes:

  • Course Overview

  • Course Marketing

  • CME info

  • Instructions

  • Evaluation

  • Asset Library

  • Additional Resources

Tue, Sep 17

Clinicians and Firearms: Request a Course Distribution Packet

Health care professionals serve a vital role in preventative health. Discussing firearm safety

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 WATCH CLINICIANS AND FIREARMS 
 

Advocacy In Action

On Sept. 17, SAFE held our semi-annual event where we shared how to effectively engage and educate lawmakers on firearm injury prevention policy using a public health approach.

Not enough time to watch entire event? Open up this resource guide to help you through the activity of selecting the issue, educating yourself on the issue (such as safe firearm storage), finding your legislator, crafting a communication and sending it to them.

 RESOURCE GUIDE 

Thank you to our Co-Host, Brady United, to our co-presenters, Drs. Sandy McKay and Joe Sakran, and to The Center for Violence Prevention at the University of Texas Health in Houston, our Silver Sponsor.

Whether you were able to attend or not, you can watch the event here. It was an excellent event.

 WATCH/LISTEN/ACT 
 

Share Your Story

Two years ago, SAFE asked to hear your stories. Dr. Casey Lamar, who is heading into his pediatric critical care fellowship next year, location to be determined, shared this with us and we are sharing it with you, with his permission. To watch it, you can click on “Share Your Story” below, or on the “Since I Last Saw You.”

We want to share YOUR story. It doesn’t have to be in the form of a video or a poem. Just your own words however they show up.

Use this anonymous link to visit Our Stories page on the website, where you can also share your story with SAFE. They will be shared anonymously on our website.

 SHARE YOUR STORY 
 

SAFE Chapter Support Section

Find out if your institution has a SAFE Chapter: {LINK}

No SAFE Chapter? Starting one is easy: {LINK}

An easily accessible resource bank with materials, order forms (order SAFE scrubs!) and guidelines for your SAFE Chapter to reference.

  • SAFE Chapter Print Kit {LINK}

 

Major Donation Announcement

SAFE is thrilled to announce it has received a $50,000 pledge from our original "angel funders" - The Eagle Fund - from Drs. Julie Parsonnet and Dean Winslow. As two of the founders of SAFE, to say they have done so much for the organization and for gun violence prevention, is a large understatement. They work tirelessly to advocate for their patients, their students, their communities, and for the organization they built in response to learning that only 1/5 of the medical schools in the country include gun violence prevention in their medical school curricula.

With this renewed financial support comes a challenge and hopefully an inspiration to contribute and help raise an additional $50,000 between now and the end of 2024.

Thank you to Drs. Parsonnet and Winslow for your incredible generosity and support.

 

Support SAFE

Please either support SAFE for the first time, continue, or renew your support.

Using your generous donation prudently, SAFE strives to fulfil its mission by working to:

  1. Make firearm injury prevention education a priority at every US medical school.

  2. Be the leading source of medical education materials on effective ways for medical schools to teach firearm injury prevention strategies to their medical students.

  3. Provide current and future physicians the skills necessary to engage patients, communities, and local and national legislators on public health driven solutions for firearm injury prevention.

  4. Develop a robust research wing of SAFE to establish evidence-based best practices for medical student firearm prevention education.

You can make a one-time gift or a monthly one, sustaining our efforts. Donations are all tax deductible.


Thank you to our donors from 2023. We know our list of 2024 donors will be even longer.

We have a new mailing address to send check donations.

SAFE’s Executive Director resides in Madison, hence the location.

SAFE -Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic
P.O. Box 5424
Madison, WI 53705

Thank you.

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