Cener for Advocacy & Outreach

Anna Blank Building

1200 Pleasant Street

Des Moines, IA 50309
515.241.6728

Delivering Fire Prevention Program and Grant Information

Background Information

Safe Kids Iowa, led by Blank Children's Hospital, is a grassroots organization dedicated to preventing unintentional injury in children ages 0-14. Safe Kids, along with State Farm Insurance, Papa John's Pizza, and local fire departments have been providing communities with a fire safety and prevention message the past six years through the Delivering Fire Prevention Program. The goal of the program is to use an interactive approach to build awareness and provide education regarding fire prevention to local communities. Safe Kids Iowa and State Farm Insurance are pleased to offer this grant opportunity to other Iowa organizations for implementation of the Delivering Fire Prevention Program in their communities. Recipients of the grant will receive the necessary materials to implement the program.

Program planning begins by identifying target communities and partners, including a pizza establishment and a local fire department. Box-toppers with information about the upcoming event are printed and placed on all pizza boxes ordered the week preceding the event date. On the night of the event, the local fire department travels behind the pizza delivery vehicle to randomly selected homes of families who have ordered delivery pizza. Upon arrival, the fire department along with the organization implementing the program, describe the program to the family and ask permission to check their smoke detectors. If the home has working smoke detectors, the family receives a coupon for a free pizza to be used at a later date. If the home does not have working smoke detectors, either new batteries or new smoke detectors are installed by the fire department. And you can imagine that when a fire truck pulls up onto a residential street, the whole neighborhood comes out to see what is going on! This is great for the program because then three to four volunteers from the organization implementing the program can also provide educational bags with printed materials and batteries to other homes in the neighborhood, spreading the fire safety message even further. Educational bags are also provided to those families ordering pizza on the event night, but who were not randomly selected to have the fire truck attend the pizza delivery.

Do you live in a small community with no pizza delivery? That's ok! Call the Safe Kids Iowa Coordinator (515-241-3244) to discuss options for implementation in your community.

Program Impact

Over the past six years the Delivering Fire Prevention Program has distributed more than 95 smoke detectors, 20 Carbon Monoxide detectors, 700 educational bags with batteries, and has visited more than 360 homes. We hope you will be a part of the success story by implementing this valuable program within your community.

Application Due Date

This application can be submitted online beginning January 1, 2011 and ending December 1, 2011. Grants will be distributed on a rolling-basis, meaning once an application is approved the organization will receive the grant materials, and so on until all grants have been distributed. There are still six (6) grants available and recipients of the grants will be on a first come, first serve basis. The program must be implemented before December 31, 2011 and the on-line evaluation must be submitted within 30 days of your event.

Program Objectives

The goal of the Safe Kids Delivering Fire Prevention program is to reduce the fire-related injuries and deaths to children.

The major objectives are to:

Build awareness about fire safety
Provide education regarding fire prevention to local communities
Partner with local fire departments and pizza delivery establishments
Alert local media of the Delivering Fire Prevention Program and raise awareness of ongoing fire safety efforts
Assess and document the need for this program and impact of the program on the community

**This grant agreement describes the mutual commitments and responsibilities of Safe Kids Iowa and the organizations participating in Delivering Fire Prevention**

Applicant Organization Requirements

The organization agrees to plan and undertake the following tasks to the best of its ability:

1. Conduct a high-visibility Delivering Fire Prevention event, which focuses on child fire safety between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.

The organization must:

Identify and partner with a local fire department. The fire department provides a truck and staffing on the night of the event to follow the pizza delivery driver. They should check a minimum of one smoke detector in participating homes and answer any questions the homeowner may have relating to fire prevention.
Identify and partner with a local pizza establishment. The establishment should assist with PR and marketing of the program (radio, TV, other product donations). They should brief the delivery drivers and store staff on program procedures, communicate with the organizations volunteer on delivery route, provide free pizza coupons, and assist in distribution of education packets in local communities. (The establishment is not required to provide coupons - but this enhances the benefits of participating in the program. Talking to the establishment about what they are able to provide is the responsibility of the applying organization.)
Provide volunteers from the local organization to participate in the event and event planning.
Recruit volunteers from the local State Farm Insurance office (if available) to participate in the event and event planning.

2. Build awareness for fire safety messages using the media to promote the organization's effort and elements of Delivering Fire Prevention.
The organization must:

Conduct a media event to celebrate Delivering Fire Prevention and organization's activities. Promote sponsor volunteerism and ongoing fire safety initiatives.
**Be sure to send your press release via email to Safe Kids Iowa prior to sending to the media!
Invite community leaders to participate in the event.

3. Promote fire safety with printed materials you have available.

4. Complete an online program evaluation within 30 days of completing your event.

** IF UNUSED MATERIALS REMAIN, YOU MAY RETURN THE MATERIALS TO SAFE KIDS IOWA, PLAN ANOTHER EVENT, OR IDENTIFY FAMILIES IN NEED WHERE THE DETECTOR WILL BE INSTALLED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. YOU MUST NOTIFY SAFE KIDS IOWA REGARDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF LEFTOVER MATERIALS**

Safe Kids Iowa Responsibilities

In exchange for the above-mentioned commitments by the organization, Safe Kids Iowa agrees to provide:

1. Grant funding to help support the implementation of this agreement in the form of materials including:

A checklist to be completed as you plan and implement the program- submit with evaluation
5 Dual Sensor Smoke Detectors
5 Plug-In Carbon Monoxide Detectors
1 Hearing Impaired smoke alarms
30 plastic bags for handout materials
30- 9V Batteries to be placed in handout bags
30 Safe Kids Carbon Monoxide information cards to be placed in handout bags (English and Spanish)
CD includes:

Template for pizza box-toppers
Template for posters
Tracking form for homes visited
Template for press release
Template for education sheet to be placed in handout bags
Reproducible Safe Kids fire safety coloring pages to be placed in handout bags

Printed materials are the responsibility of the organization putting on the event. Safe Kids Iowa recommends talking with your local partners to determine if in-kind contributions are a possibility to help incur some of the cost of the materials.

All templates are on the provided CD and can be accessed in Microsoft Word format. Changes required are noted by an underline. Please feel free to upload your organization's logo to be represented among the others.

**Note: Safe Kids Iowa and State Farm Insurance logos must remain on the materials - NO EXCEPTIONS!**

2. Technical assistance

3. Online event evaluation, accessible at www.blankchildrens.org/delivering-fire-prevention-survey.aspx (or below)

Click here to complete the Safe Kids Iowa Delivering Fire Prevention Grant Application.

Safe Kids Iowa Delivering Fire Prevention Grant Evaluation