Alaska Injury Prevention Center and the Alaska Child Passenger Safety Coalition will be offering a Child Passenger Safety Technician certification course at Alaska Regional Hospital October 8-10th from 8 AM to 5 PM each day. Course includes a mandatory 2 hour car seat check up event. Participants must be able to attend all 3 days…
Safe Kids Mat-Su, Safe Kids Alaska, and the Alaska CPS Coalition invite you to join the team of 36,000 nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians and serve as an advocate for child passenger safety in the community! The course takes place September 17-20, 2014 from 9AM-5PM. Participants must attend all three training days. The training…
This year’s Buckle Up Campaign concluded with 90.6% of ASD teen drivers and their teen passengers buckled up! That’s above the Alaska statewide average of 88% – great job! As part of the 2014 Buckle Up Campaign, student groups made videos to promote seat belt use. To view those videos click through to our teen…
Baby Trend has announced a recall on two models of their TrendZ Fastback 3-in-1 Car Seats manufactured between 10/2011 and 7/2013. For more information about the recall please visit their site. If you need help determining if your car seat was involved in the recall, AIPC’s nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians would be happy to…
Student groups from Chugiak High School, Dimond High School, Eagle River High School, Service High School, and Togiak High School recently completed their media projects for Raise Your Voice 2014. For this year’s program, teen groups were asked to make a video that addressed underage drinking. You can view the completed video projects on our…
Evenflo has recently announced a recall for several car seat models. For more information about the recall, please visit Evenflo’s site for details. If you need assistance determining if your seat was involved in the recall, or installing the replacement buckle, AIPC’s nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians would be happy to help you.
In partnership with the Anchorage Fire Department, Safe Kids Alaska, and the Alaska Highway Safety Office, AIPC will be hosting a car seat check up on March 28th. We will be at Anchorage Fire Department Station #12, located at 7920 Homer Drive, between 76th and Dimond on the New Seward frontage road. Car seat checks…
Graco has announced a recall for multiple models of car seats manufactured between 2009 and July 2013. According to Graco, they have identified that food and dried liquids can make some harness buckles progressively more difficult to open or become stuck. If you have a Graco car seat and need assistance identifying if your car…
Alaska Injury Prevention Center’s annual report for 2013 is now available. To download the report, please visit our Annual Reports page.
KTUU Channel 2 News recently featured a segment on car seat safety. For the piece, Marti Glaser of KTUU interviewed AIPC’s Beth Schuerman to discuss children and car seats.
