Keeping the Fun in Play While Preventing Falls
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Nov 17, 2022
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. CST
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More children are injured falling out of beds than out of trees each year, yet many adults focus on new ways to constrain play. Today’s children often lead sedentary lives with limited opportunities to explore the environment around them and develop the skills necessary to protect their overall health. The encroachment of safety in children’s play has been insidious, without evidence, and entirely counterproductive to development of the knowledge and skills children need to negotiate a complex world. The consequences of this disruption of childhood are massive and have life-long implications for healthy outcomes. Falls are one of the consequences, but one from which we can draw a direct line to physical literacy and activity levels. In this presentation we will explore the connections between physical literacy, perspectives on risk in childhood, and fall prevention.
Presenter: Brandy Tanenbaum is a certified Risk Manager and works as an Injury Prevention Coordinator in the Tory Trauma Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. She shares a passion with her colleagues for driving community health by reducing the risk and severity of traumatic injury. Brandy has an undergraduate degree in kinesiology and health sciences and a master’s degree in public health. You can often find her exploring the intersections of injury with the social determinants of health, advocating for progressive prevention programming, and contributing to research that aims to understand how we can do this work better together.