injury and violence prevention (ivp) Branch

Kids’ Plates Program

Baby in car seat

Program’s Impact

Since 1998, IVPB has given a wide variety of awards throughout California to reduce or eliminate unintentional injuries in children and youth, focusing on areas such as:

Bicycle safety
Children left in parked cars and children run over by cars moving forward or backward
Drowning prevention
Fire safety
Gun safety
In-home safety
Pedestrian safety
Playground safety standards
Poison control and safety
Sleep suffocation and sudden infant death syndrome
Sports-related concussions, heat stroke, and spinal injury safety
Vehicular safety, including restraint, warnings, and education programs

The Kids' Plates program awards safety equipment to local non-profit organizations and has distributed thousands of safety equipment items over the years. Below is an example of the types and quantities of safety equipment items made possible by the Kids' Plates program:

Year(s)	# of Non-Profit Organizations Awarded Child Safety Equipment	# of Child Safety Seats Distributed	# of Life Vests Distributed	# of Multi-Sport Helmets Distributed	# of Smoke Alarms Distributed
2020-2021	59	1,802	--	6,008	--
2017	174	2,760	54,928	10,824	6,264
2016	145	1,496	5,654	12,936	6,846