Project Title:

First Connect – Child Safety

Principal Investigator/Program Director:

Julia Belkowitz, MD

Other Investigators and Departments (or other Universities, if applicable):

Gayane Stepanian (Jackson Memorial Foundation)

Judy Schaechter, MD (UM)

Community Based Organization-Collaborator (if applicable)

Healthy Start Coalition and Children’s Home Society

Funding Source (e.g., NICHD, NCI, Dept of Education, Children’s Trust):

Healthy Start Coalition of Miami Dade

Annual Direct Costs:

19035.94

Annual Facility and Administration Costs (F&A) and Rate, (e.g., 53%, 10%):

1903.60

Total Project Award (Combined Direct and F&A Costs):

20,939.54

Dates of Award  (if pending, indicated  Pending):

September 17, 2004 – May 31, 2007

Lay Abstract (in space below):  Please be concise (space below will word wrap and expand)

Please include:  (a) Specific Aims, Objectives, and/or Hypotheses of the study; (b) Participants (disease or disability, age, gender, child, family, etc), (c) Project type (eg., descriptive study, service demonstration project, case study, ethnographic study, clinical trial); (d) Brief description of methods and procedures; and (e) anticipated outcomes/benefits

To form part of a First Connect/Health Connect Network by providing consultation and training and capacity building of Health Connect family coaches and staff on child safety in the home and in automobiles; develop a curriculum, in-home safety assessment, pre and post tests, and training manual; and provide direct services in passenger safety and home safety training on board the Injury Free Mobile to first time moms countywide. 

Abstracts and/or Publications Resulting from the Project: