More than 1 million families worldwide lose a child each year to a preventable injury. In the U.S. in 2022, over 9,000 children died and about 5.6 million visited emergency rooms for preventable injuries — the leading cause of child death. Many families lack the resources to prevent drownings, car crashes, fires, and falls.

Safe Kids Clark County helps the community stay informed and keep kids safe by focusing on health equity and prevention. We prioritize marginalized and underserved parents and children who face discrimination and barriers to services (racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, economic, cultural, and linguistic), because these groups receive fewer and lower-quality preventive services and less access to care and infrastructure.

Our approach:

• Commit to health equity so every child has fair access to injury prevention and the opportunity for their best health.

• Use an intersectional framework (individual, relationship, community, societal) to identify how overlapping social factors compound disadvantage and limit access to education, housing, employment, built environments, and services.

• Lead with science and proactivity: translate research and data into targeted prevention, anticipate changing injury risks, meet families where they are, and build partnerships to protect the most vulnerable.

• Change systems and promote sustainability by combining education with policy, regulatory, industry, and community interventions that address root causes; coordinate across levels and create accessible, long-term solutions that build a lasting culture of safety.

Safe Kids Clark County centers the needs of the most at-risk children and families to reduce disparities and prevent needless injuries and deaths.