Maryland has an active RISK WATCH® statewide Community and a leadership team of partners from many organizations and agencies. Since 2002 The Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) program at MIEMSS and the Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal have coordinating this program in partnership with the Maryland State Firemens Association Fire & Injury Prevention Committee. Other state partners include: Safe Kids Maryland and local coalitions, Partnership for Safer Maryland (DHMH), the Maryland & National Capital Poison Centers, the Maryland Chapter of the American Trauma Society (ATS), Maryland State Police and local law enforcement agencies, the State Highway Administration and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

RISK WATCH® prevention activities target the high risk and high frequency injuries to children from preschool through eighth grade. RISK WATCH® resources are used in classrooms, before and after school programs, fire & EMS department outreach, libraries, health departments and hospitals.
RISK WATCH® gives children, their families, their teachers and the life safety educators in their community the skills and knowledge needed to create safer homes and communities. The RISK WATCH® Curriculum divided into five age-appropriate teaching modules: pre-k/kindergarten, grades 1-2, grades 3-4, grades 5-6, and grades 7-8. RISK WATCH® Modules found in each age group binder are: fire and burn prevention, motor vehicle safety, bike and pedestrian safety, water safety, poison prevention, falls prevention, choking, suffocation and strangulation prevention, and firearms injury prevention. There is also a curriclum on Natural Disasters.
Maryland’s Risk Watch team can be contacted by email – riskwatch@msfa.org or through the EMSC program office at MIEMSS 410-706-1758.

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Updated Augus 2011