AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

Traffic injury prevention project (tipp) provides technical assistance, audiovisual resources, materials, and training for parents, care providers, hospitals and law enforcement personnel on all traffic safety issues affecting children and adolescents, including car seat safety, seatbelts and airbags, pedestrian and bicycle safety, school bus safety, and teen driving.some key accomplishments in 2023-2024 include:- continuing medical education for hospital staff and pediatric primary care practices with over 400 participants- quarterly distribution of child passenger safety updates to pediatric practices and annual survey of pa hospitals that have labor and delivery services- delivered more than 7,700 child safety seats to loan programs and fitting stations across the commonwealth- responded to more than 16,000 phone and email requests, and over 140,000 website visits- distributed more than 6,400 child passenger safety week planners to a variety of partners including child passenger safety technicians, hospitals, maternity floor nurse managers, pediatric practices, child care providers, etc.