Safe Kids Southern New Jersey's mission is to decrease unintentional injury and death to children ages 14 and under from:
- Motor vehicle crashes and pedestrian injuries
- Bike crashes
- Drownings
- Fires and scald burns
- Poisonings
- Unintentional shootings
- Falls
- Airway obstructions
Ninety percent of these injuries could be prevented if families took the simple steps necessary to protect their children.
Our Grassroots Strength
Safe Kids of Southern New Jersey brings together a cross-section of community leadership including:
- Law enforcement officers
- Firefighters and paramedics
- Medical and health professionals
- Educators
- Parents
- Businesses
- Public policymakers
- Media
Partners in Child Injury Prevention
Lead Organization:
- Cooper University Health Care
Organizational Members:
- AAA South Jersey
- American Red Cross-Camden County
- Babies 'R' Us
- Burlington County Department of Public Safety
- Camden County Department of Public Safety
- Gloucester County Department of Public Safety
- The Jake Rogers Memorial Foundation*
- New Jersey Hospital Association
- Maguire Air Force Base Family Advocacy Program
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Inspira Medical Center- Woodbury
- United Way Camden County
- Virtua Health
- WAWA
- YMCA Burlington County
*Major contributor
Honorary Chairs
Rick Williams, co-anchor of Action News Morning newscast and Action News at Noon, with co-anchor Monica Malpass, joined WPVI-TV, Channel 6 in April of 1988 as a general assignment reporter. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter at WRAL-TV in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, at WOWK-TV, Huntington, West Virginia, and at WUSA in Washington, D.C. He graduated in 1983 from Howard University, Washington, D.C. with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams, M.D., is a member of Cooper University Hospital's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
For more information:
Maureen Donnelly
One Cooper Plaza
Suite 213
Camden, NJ 08103
donnelly-maureen@cooperhealth.edu
856.968.TOTS (8687)