Safekids Aotearoa
Ririki Haumaru Safekids Aotearoa (Starship Digital and Community Engagement) is the national injury prevention service of Starship Children’s Health and a member of Safe Kids Worldwide. Our mission is to reduce the incidence and severity of unintentional injuries (accidents) to New Zealand children aged 0 - 14 years.
Why we’re here:
All tamariki in Aotearoa deserve to grow up free from unintentional injury. Yet, unintentional injuries, which are largely preventable, are the second most common cause of death for tamariki, and on average cause more than 6,600 injuries for tamariki per year.
What we do:
Ririki Haumaru Safekids Aotearoa designs and implements targeted information and training programmes in collaboration with communities, agencies and corporate partners across New Zealand. Programmes cover the leading child injury causes such as falls, burns and unintentional poisoning prevention.
How we work:
Ririki Haumaru Safekids Aotearoa provides practical advice based on international research, local knowledge and mātauranga, to help keep children safe from serious injuries like falls, drowning and incidents on the road. We utilise evidence-based research and national and local child injury data alongside programme evaluation insights to develop and implement unintentional child injury initiatives. We work closely with clinicians to gather insights on emerging child injury trends and to understand the impact of injuries at the emergency department door and beyond.
Ririki Haumaru Safekids Aotearoa has close relationships with around 30 organisations nationally who work with whānau in the community and in their homes. We share injury prevention knowledge and resources to empower and equip these partners to help whānau make changes that keep their children safe. Nearly all of these organisations work directly with Māori and Pacific People's whānau.
Our Māori team members maintain broad relationships with iwi, hapu and whānau that have enabled us to gather and share mātauranga Māori on child and whānau safety and traditional parenting. We have a growing network of Māori professionals to support this mahi. This includes Māori editors, academics, evaluators, videographers, translators, composers, narrators and photographers. Our work is closely watched and supported by DHB Māori leadership and kaumatua and kaimahi with a growing interest in child injury prevention.
You can download our safety resources from our website.
More Information:
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Website:
Find out more about our programmes, activities, resources and services on our website at https://www.starship.org.nz/safekids/