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RoadSmart Report | September, 2004
Apply for a community grant
SGI and the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Partnership Project’s
community grants program is looking for creative and innovative
projects that promote traffic safety and brain injury prevention.
"By applying for a community grant with your idea for a great
traffic safety or brain injury prevention program, you have a chance
to get the money needed to actually get started," says Shannon
Ell, SGI’s Supervisor of Traffic Safety Promotion.
Ell says the community grant program is looking for ideas on specific
topics. The SGI traffic safety program priorities include drinking
and driving, seat belt and child restraint use, pedestrian safety,
bicycle safety, snowmobile safety, senior drivers, young drivers
and high-collision sites. The ABI priorities include sport and recreation
injury prevention, workplace safety and fall-related brain-injury
prevention.
Ell points out the money cannot be used to pay salaries or to
purchase food for participants. It also cannot be used for capital
repairs or equipment, such as fixing roads, improving playgrounds
or buying helmets for the local skating rink.
Some of the great ways people have used a community grant:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society in Yorkton used a grant to hold
an older adult security symposium, educating seniors about fall
prevention, crime prevention and how to stay fit to avoid injury.
- Assiniboine Valley Health District - Community Services used
a grant to start a P.A.R.T.Y. (Preventing Alcohol and Risk-related
Trauma in Youth) program, which promotes injury prevention by
having students follow the path of an injury survivor, meeting
the professionals that would care for them in a trauma situation
and learning of the painful journey of a trauma patient.
- Rosthern RCMP used a grant to hold a "Saskatchewan Valley
Idols" air band competition for area high schools, with a
theme promoting traffic safety and injury awareness.
"We’re always looking for new and original programs
to support, so be creative," says Ell. "Take a look around
your community and see what safety issues need to be addressed."
The deadline for submissions is Oct. 31, 2004. Anyone interested
can obtain application forms or more information by visiting the
SGI web site at www.sgi.sk.ca or by calling 1-800-667-8015, ext.
1405.
Contact:
Shannon Ell
Supervisor, Traffic Safety Promotion
SGI
Regina
(306) 775-6179
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