December 2024 SAFE Newsletter

Table of Contents:

• SAFE’s Mission & Goals

• What we are working on at SAFE?

• Join The SAFE One Thousand

• Donations of $150+ Receive a SAFE Scrub

• Register for Spring StandSAFE Event

• Ally Organization Feature:We Can Heal from Trauma

• Three New SAFE Chapters!

  • RUSH Medical College

  • University of California San Francisco

  • The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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.

Goals:

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, 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.

If this sounds like something worth supporting, we hope to inspire you to support SAFE with a donation before the end of December.

• A series of collaborative Firearm Injury Prevention Curriculum Workshops are being planned over the course of the next 3 years. The first one will be in the Spring in the Midwest. We look forward to sharing more in January.
  

• As a result of a recent school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, physicians and medical students in that state are planning to collectively advocate for strengthening Child Access Prevention (CAP) Law. A Save the Date for that will be in early January.

Members of The SAFE One Thousand are people and family foundations who contribute either a donation of $1,000+ or set up a recurring, monthly donation of $83.34/month. They are SAFE’s heroes and she-roes. Join them if you can! Maybe you got a bonus, or a pay-raise, or are likely to get a tax refund. Or, invite someone who can become one of The SAFE One Thousand. Just forward this newsletter to them!

If you make a donation of $150 or more to SAFE, we would love to send you a SAFE scrub top as a small token of our appreciation. Include your preferred size (XS - XXL) on the donation form in the “additional notes” section of the pledge form.

You can make a one-time donation or make it a recurring monthly donation ($12.50/month). Donations are all tax deductible.
Help us double the number of donors by becoming one today!

Please note that SAFE has a new mailing address, should you prefer to send a check.

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

On March 11, SAFE will hold its semi-annual event at
8 PM Eastern Time/ 5 PM Pacific.

Our esteemed guest will be Dr. Cedric Dark, who will be talking about his recent book "Under the Gun - An ER Doctor's Cure for America's Gun Epidemic". Dr. Dark is a graduate of Morehouse College, earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, and holds a master’s degree from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

He completed his residency training at George Washington University where he served as Chief Resident. Currently, Dr. Dark is an Assistant Professor in the Henry J. N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

While registering for the free event IS required, reading the book in advance is not. However, we hope you pick up a copy and add it to your reading list before March 11. It is an excellent book that you can purchase directly from the publisher.

All are welcome. If you cannot attend on March 11, register anyway so you will be able to watch and listen after the event at your convenience.

We have a new mailing address for those donating via check.

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