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Lezlie Dahlke, RN, Safe Kids Columbia coordinator: "Our coalition, Safe Kids Columbia, gets together and creates a four-hour entertainment-education for everyone with kids."
Prevention education is important. [00:27]
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Lezlie Dahlke, RN, Safe Kids Columbia coordinator: "Everything that we target are risk areas that are totally preventable. How do you learn how to prevent fires in your home? Kids need to learn that as well as parents, so we provide information at each booth for the parents to take with them, but we're trying to teach kids through the fun games. How do I check my fire alarm? How do I change the batteries? How often should my parents change the batteries?"
Lezlie Dahlke, RN, Safe Kids Columbia coordinator: "All of us have this idea of invincibility and it will never happen to me, but every day we hear about tragedies, and it does happen to you when you least expect it. If you focus on the preventability factor and every time you get in the car, you buckle up, you buckle up your kids and you do what you can to be safe, when that happens, it's there to protect you or protect your kids."
Lezlie Dahlke, RN, Safe Kids Columbia coordinator: "We can't be there every time you get in the car. You're there. You're the one who needs to teach your child, 'put on your seatbelt, it's not an option.' Just be safe."