Projects & Products
Partnerships are at the heart of the National Children’s Center’s key projects. The Center engages in specific interventions
with agribusiness, media, insurers and major farm organizations to protect children at work and at play.
A fact sheet summarizes the National Children's Center
and its projects for 2008-2013.
Nurture is the newsletter of the National Children's Center for Rural and
Agricultural Health and Safety, published to disseminate children's rural health and safety information to professionals in the fields of health and safety, agri-business, policy-making and the media.
Mini-Grants is a program to support feasibility and pilot projects in the outreach, prevention/intervention, education, and
research areas by providing short-term funding.
Safe Play is a project that provides the first comprehensive guidelines for
designing and building an outdoor safe play area on a farm. A new research project, Motivating Farm Parents to Create Safe Play Areas on Farms: A Randomized Controlled Trial,
is being lead by Eileen Fisher and Risto Rautiainen from the University of Iowa. This project is a randomized controlled trial among three groups to evaluate the effectiveness of
specific interventions to motivate parents to build safe play areas.
Safety Guidelines for Hired Adolescent Farmworkers is a project to reduce the incidence of
workplace injury and fatality to hired adolescent farm workers, through the development and distribution of user-friendly safety resources. A new intervention project, Integrating Safety
Guidelines for Hired Adolescent Farm Workers into Field Supervisors' Practices, is being lead by Children’s Center director Barbara Lee. This project will test a new method for conducting
training among field supervisors in production agriculture.
Economics of Youth Farm Labor and Farm Injuries is a research project lead by
Ed Zaloshnja of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation which will explore the economics of youth working on family farms and the economic consequences of farm youth injury.
Blueprint for Knowledge Translation is a project lead by Sue Gallagher of Tufts University
which aims to move state-of-the-art knowledge on childhood agricultural injury prevention
into practice. First, a Blueprint will be generated. Second, the Blueprint knowledge will be integrated into professional training outlets so it can be translated to end-users.
The Blueprint document will be issued one decade following the last comprehensive review and updated national action plan which was presented in 2001.
Previously Funded Projects
Many projects and products previously funded through the National Children’s Center continue to be made available:
Agritourism is a project to develop health and safety guidelines specific to children for farmers involved in agritourism.
Journalist's Workshop is an annual workshop for designed to build a cadre of journalists who understand the broad scope – and preventability -- of childhood agricultural injury.
Reports is a page listing the publications developed by the National Children’s Center to inform stakeholders of Center activities as well as reports on special projects.
