Bringing Elevated Safety to Summit County

Through many safety initiatives, St. Anthony Summit Health Foundation has continued to provide injury prevention outreach and events to Summit County community members.

• ThinkFirst Injury Prevention held two Bike Rodeos for Breckenridge Elementary Schools over the summer, offering bike safety education along with the distribution of helmets for any child who needed one.
  
  
• Our Stop the Bleed course was presented to community members, teaching how to intervene and prevent life-threatening bleeding following an injury.Emergency kits were also given to participants that included gauze, tourniquets and Stop the Bleed guides.
  
  
• The first-ever Summit Safety Expo also took place inJuly, covering a wide range of safety topics, including hiking and bike safety, distracted driving, gun safety, community resources and more.

You are invited to enhance our safety initiatives this fall and winter by making a gift with the remit envelope attached to this newsletter or by visiting tinyurl.com/SUMdonate.