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Moneta Volunteer Fire Department and the Lions Club Team with CIVP to Install
2,500 Smoke Detectors

Pictured above is the Moneta Smoke Alarm Team: Lions Club members Tim Haer, John Patane, George Just, Gloria Guice, Ricky Tuck of Moneta Volunteer Fire Dept., and Lions Club member Dan Klosen.

In October 2004, the Moneta Volunteer Fire Department in partnership with the Moneta Lions Club was awarded a Get Alarmed, Virginia! grant to install 2,500 smoke detectors and to provide fire safety education to low income households in rural Moneta, Virginia.

Through a cooperative grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Virginia Department of Health, Center for Injury and Violence Prevention has partnered with the Virginia Department of Fire Programs and several local communities during the past seven years to implement Get Alarmed, Virginia! projects throughout the Commonwealth. The program provides free smoke detectors, installation, and educational material to high-risk communities - those with fire death rates higher than state and national averages and median household incomes below the poverty level...
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American Red Cross Introduces TEAM to the Greater Richmond Area
Using a mini-grant from the Virginia Department of Health, Center for Injury and violence Prevention, The American Red Cross, Center for Community and Corporate Education, provided a two-day long water safety initiative to help decrease drowning and near-drowning incidents in the Greater Richmond area. The training program, Tools for Effective Aquatics Management (TEAM) was presented to participants in early spring of this year. The two-day long TEAM Approach seminars where geared for aquatics management staff and community pool association directors. Participants were from diverse facilities ranging from neighborhood pools to college organizations, and included a swim club in a private rock quarry...
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Camp Hero Touches Many Lives
On May 18, 2005, 150 adults and children attended Dinwiddie County's Camp Hero, a childhood injury prevention awareness campaign coordinated by the Dinwiddie County Department of Social Services. The one-day camp was held at the Eastside Enhancement Center in the northern end of Dinwiddie County. It was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Department of Health, Center for Injury and Violence Prevention. Click here to read the full article.

If you have a successful community injury prevention project, we'd like to hear about it. We may even highlight it on this site! Please email your community injury prevention story to Lenny Recupero at leonard.recupero@vdh.virginia.gov.