Become a SBIRT Champion Today!
The ENA SBIRT Educational Toolkit will include multiple components (role plays, video, PowerPoint^™ presentation, algorithm, example of discharge instruction, and fact sheet) to educate nurses about: What is SBIRT? Why should it be done? How and when should it be done? The purpose of the Toolkit is to ease the implementation of SBIRT in the ED setting. The SBIRT Educational Toolkit will officially be released in spring 2008. The ENA Injury Prevention Institute is recruiting SBIRT Champions, ED Managers/Directors (Administrators), staff nurses, and ED physicians, etc. to promote the implementation of the SBIRT toolkit in the emergency department. A short promotional presentation is available on the ENA Web site at www.ena.org/ipinstitute/SBIRT/Benefits.asp. The SBIRT Champion profile form is also available on the same Web page. Tell everyone to watch the clip and, even better, to enroll as a SBIRT Champion!

Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs Now Available
CDC announces the publication of Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015 (formerly known as the Health Protection Research Guide, 2006-2015 and referred to as the Research Guide). The Research Guide will help identify our Health Protection Goals in four areas: healthy people, healthy places and communities, preparedness against infectious, occupational, environmental and terrorist threats, and improved global health. The Research Guide can be found at CDC’s website www.cdc.gov/od/science/PHResearch/cdcra To request a hard copy of the Research Guide, please e-mail Andrea Barrett at abarrett@cdc.gov with your request and current mailing address.

Suicide Trends Among Youths, Young Adults & Adults
Read the MMWR September issue on pre-teen and teenage suicide at the following link: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5635a2.htm Read the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) report “Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempts, Major Depressive Episode, and Substance Use among Adults” at the following link: www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k6/suicide/suicide.htm

D.O.T. Announces State Grants to Enforce Seat Belt Use
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary announced that 17 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and four territories will receive more than $109 million under a federal program to encourage and enforce seat belt use and highway safety. Click here to read the full article www.dot.gov/affairs/dot9107.htm

GHSA Launches National Drunk Driving Crackdown
Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) has launched a national drunk driving crackdown. For the full news release go to GHSA’s website at www.ghsa.org/html/media/pressreleases/2007/2007.08.20.otlua.html For more information on Madd’s Drunk Driving Elimination Campaign go to Madd’s website at www.madd.org/campaign/

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week (DDPW)-November 5-11, 2007
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is taking action by launching DDPW. DDPW is a public awareness and advocacy campaign developed to educate young drivers, their parents, and others about drowsy driving and its prevention. For more information about DDPW visit their web site at www.sleepfoundation.org/site/c.lqLPIROCKtF/b.3264501/k.4D1C/Drowsy_Driving_Prevention_Week_2007.htm

NTSB Recommends Legislation Requiring FMVSS 218 Compliant Motorcycle Helmets
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended legislation to require all motorcyclists and their passengers to use Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 218-compliant helmets. To read the full article click here www.ntsb.gov/pressrel/2007/070911b.htm

Beware-Teens Can Buy Alcohol Online
Did you know underage students can buy beer, wine and liquor online with a credit card and have it shipped directly to them with no ID check? Go to www.pointclickdrink.com/ to learn more about what can be done to prevent underage access to alcohol.

Research Update: Primary Enforcement Laws Reach Groups Least Likely to Use Safety Belts
A recent study by researchers from CDC’s Injury Center highlights primary enforcement safety belt laws as an effective strategy to increase overall safety belt use. For more information about interventions to increase the use of safety belts related to motor vehicle injury prevention, visit www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/mvsafety.htm To learn more about motor vehicle-related injuries, visit www.cdc.gov/health/motor.htm For more unintentional injury prevention research updates, visit www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/duip.htm

Prevention Education in America’s Schools: Findings and Recommendations from a Survey of Educators
Go to www.members.jointogether.org/ct/Y7MnERp1kXCo/ to download Join Together’s new report. Select your state from the drop-down menu under IN YOUR STATE to learn about prevention education requirements and prevention experts in your state. Education experts discussed the survey results and suggested recommendations about how we can move forward to help delay, reduce, and prevent drug and alcohol use among children and adolescents.

What You Can do to Prevent Deadly or Disabling Falls
>Read the full story by Liz Taylor, whose columns appear in The Seattle Times, at the link below: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=liztaylor10&date=20070910&query=Liz+Taylor+fall+prevention With 30 years experience in the field, Liz writes and lectures on a host of aging topics. For more information about fall prevention visit the Fall Prevention Center of Excellence at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles at www.stopfalls.org