KIDS ARE 1ST SAFETY FESTIVAL HOSTED BY BUNNIN CHEVROLET IN CULVER CITY CA
Sponsored by STATE FARM, co-hosts SENATOR CURREN PRICE
& UNITED INDEPENDENT TAXI
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KIDS ARE 1ST SOCIAL MEDIA, PHOTO & VIDEO INTERNET SITES
Here are some links to our Social media, photo & video sites on the internet.
Please follow, like, or just view to stay in touch
Best Regards
Marilyn Weinger
President,Kids Are 1st
Chairperson, Safe Kids Los Angeles County Coalition
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidsare1st/
http://www.youtube.com/user/kidsare1st#p/u
Please "Like us" on Facebook
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Please follow us on Twitter
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Los Angeles County
http://www.ph.lacounty.gov/ivpp
02/11/2011
KIDS ARE 1ST AT THE BIGG CHILL
Come and visit us at the BIGG CHILL on Sat. Feb. 12 from 11 am - 1 pm. All children under 18 will get a FREE child ID as well as a FREE topping for their yogurt. The Bigg Chill has the BEST frozen yogurt in LA.
02/10/2011
BANNED IN VATICAN CITY and EGYPT
I find it kind of strange that while our not for profit organization saves countless lives each year with our safety events, child passenger safety, and teen impairment/distractions demonstrations, some of our videos are BANNED in the following countries. Do you think that if the huge and rich Record Companies knew what we do they would allow our Videos to be seen.
Maybe they would contribute to our efforts to save lives if they only knew!
Copyright Info: Baby Loves Disco in Hollywood CA on Oct 24, 2010 w. Kids Are 1st
You have disputed a copyright claim on your video, Baby Loves Disco in Hollywood CA on Oct 24, 2010 w. Kids Are 1st .
All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content:
- Entity: Sony Music Entertainment Content Type: Sound Recording
As a result, your video is blocked in these locations:
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It is not right that our videos are banned as a non profit is allowed by US law to use copyrighted material for its not for profit work.
Our videos use copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder. It is a fair use under copyright law.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. NON-PROFIT, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
So how about some donations so we can continue our mission to save lives.
01/31/2011
Your Year End Gift
Your Gift
Jumo uses your social network and interests to help you find the causes that are important to you.
We're not interested in asking people to give money just for the sake of giving. What we hear from people like you is they're willing to give only when they have a sense of how their donation might be used and why it's important. This type of understanding only develops over time.
But for the moment, there's an end-of-year tax deadline looming. If you want your donation to be tax-deductible in 2010, you must make your gift by midnight on December 31st.
As you’re making your year-end giving decisions, think about supporting some of the organizations you’re connected to on Jumo:
Kids Are 1st
https://www.jumo.com/donate?org_id=4cf55732a7c490e3b4b670a0&ein=205836910
or you can donate directly to Kids are 1st on PayPal.
Your donation to Kids Are 1st is tax deductible 
Every dollar you contribute to these causes will enable them to expand their programs and do their work better.
We have a lot of new functionality coming to Jumo in the New Year and look forward to continuing to help you connect to the causes and organizations that are most meaningful to you.
Thanks for your support,
Marilyn
12/28/2010
United Taxi continues to support community events.
I recently reported on United Independent Taxi’s support of the Burbank Family Safety Festival, but they deserve some more mention as they have continued to support community events in the Los Angeles area. They bill themselves as “the cab company that cares about the community & the environment."
On December 9th, United Taxi donated a bag of toys and promotional calendars, coin purses and pens at the annual holiday event hosted by 26th District California Senator Curren D. Price, Jr. at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. All donated items from the evening will go to needy families in and around L.A.
United Taxi December sponsored the Kids Are 1st child safety booth (www.kidsare1st.org) that offered free child ID fingerprints and photos on December 11th & 12th at the Winter Holiday Festival at Pershing Square. Events included a Snow Fun Zone, Holiday Ornament Grove, Puppet Show, Make & Take Holiday Crafts, and entertainment, and the cab company passed out free promotional items, "green" recycled tote bags, pens, coin purses and magnets.Councilwoman Jan Perry, 9th District President Pro Tempore Los Angeles, CA stopped by the booth.
Then, on December 18th, United Taxi donated 200 'green' recycled tote bags filled with grocery donations for 100 needy families this holiday season at the LAPD Pacific Division's annual Winter Wonderland event which featured Santa, fun and games.
Kudos to United Independent Taxi for their involvement in the community!
United has been in operation since 1977 and can be reached at 800-822-8294 or online at www.unitedtaxi.com
Willie Pena
12/20/2010
Kids are 1st needs your support now more then ever
Kids Are 1st, a 501 (c) (3) organization's MISSION is to create an awareness of how to keep children, teens and families safe.
Kids Are 1st helps save the lives of children by teaching, checking, and promoting PROPER child passenger safety seat USE and providing Child Identification Kits- one of the most important tools USED BY law enforcement to AID in the recovery of a missing child. Kids Are 1st addresses risks to teen drivers due to DISTRACTIVE DRIVING such as TEXTING, NOT WEARING SEAT BELTS, DRINKING AND DRIVING, SPEEDING, USING A CELL PHONE, AND CARRYING OTHER TEEN PASSENGERS.
Kids Are 1st will continue with our action plans which include interventions designed to educate and change behaviors to reduce crashes, save lives and address all safety concerns for families and their children.
Kids are 1st needs your support now more then ever. Car crashes are the # 1 killer of children and teens. Our Child car seat program saves lives but without funding it is not possible to reach the children who need us the most. We are in unprecedented times as states and cities have cut funding drastically. Kids Are 1st has been stepping up and installing as many seats as possible within our limited means.
Foundations and corporations who have historically funded important non-profit organization such as ours have all but stopped giving grants due to the recent developments in the economy.
Here are some recent quotes from news articles which explain the importance of hands on safety events and educational safety programs.
Plastic Surgeon Frank Ryan's Needless Death Due to Texting
Heidi Montag’s controversial plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan, committed one of the newest cardinal sins of driving — and it cost him his life. Ryan was texting and driving.
The Beverly Hills doctor died Aug. 16, 2010 when his car ran off the winding Pacific Coast Highway in California, and plunged down a gully, overturning and killing him instantly.
Frank’s ex-girlfriend, Charmaine Blake confirmed that police told her he was texting while driving.
CANADA - The lone survivor of a plane crash near Golden is a little girl who endured five hours in the wreckage, suspended upside down in a car seat that apparently saved her life. From the Vancouver Province: October 30, 2007, Good Morning America ABC News
ANAHEIM – The 10-month-old boy of 21-year-old Natalie Cantón, who died Thursday when her vehicle flew off the Riverside (91) Freeway before it plunged nearly 100 feet, will be released from the hospital today, a family member said.
Cantón, of Chino, died at the scene. Her baby, Aiden Koch, survived. He was secured in a rear-facing car seat and was virtually unharmed, California Highway Patrol officers reported.
CHP Officer Jennifer Hink said the car seat most likely saved the child's life.
"Car safety seats are made for high-impact crashes," Hink said. "When the seat is secured correctly, the car seat becomes a part of the car. The child cannot move."
February 16, 2007 The Orange County Register
LAS VEGAS - Free Child Car Seat Inspection Checkpoint Saves Lives
A lesson that comes too late for too many local families -- like the family of a 14-month-old baby girl who lost both of her legs in an accident last April when she became embedded in the windshield of her mother's car. The child wasn't restrained.
Installing a car seat properly is not easy. It takes 40 hours of formal instruction for someone to become a certified child safety seat technician. Alyson McCarthy, Reporter
March 4, 2007
TENNESEE - A woman died today in a two-car crash on John Bragg Highway around 1:50 p.m.
The deceased was not wearing her seat belt, according to Trooper Boyd. The infant was properly restrained in a safety seat. sewilliams@dnj.com
Eight-month-old Cykele Collins, of Hammond, died at Ochsner Foundation Hospital in Jefferson on Saturday, two days after he was critically injured in a crash on Interstate 12 in Tangipahoa Parish, State Police said.
The infant was sitting unrestrained in the lap of a passenger. March 06, 2007 Paul Rioux
As a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, and Director of Trauma and Burn Services at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., every day I see the pain and suffering of kids with injuries. Many parents ask me “Why did this happen to my child? What could I have done?”
It’s astonishing that unintentional injuries are still a leading killer of children in most nations, with more than a million children ages 14 and under dying each year. In a recent study conducted by SAFE KIDS Worldwide, we found that within our member country network alone, 279,000 died from traffic-related injuries.
Unintentional injury is a public health issue with significant economic consequences.
In the United States, injury is the leading cause of medical spending for children ages 5 to 14.
- Every $1 spent on a child safety seat saves $32 in direct medical costs and other costs to society
The Vaccine That Prevents “Accidents”
Martin R. Eichelberger, M.D.
If a child is missing, law enforcement authorities can use the child's completed I.D. Kit to scan the child's fingerprints into the National Crime Information Center database. These fingerprints can then be used to help locate the child in a variety of ways. For example:
- John, age 12, is abducted by his father, who is divorcing his mother and believes the court will not grant him visitation. John's father takes him from Boston to Los Angeles. For the next four years, John and his father have absolutely no contact with John's mother. When John turns 16, he goes to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get his driver's license. The DMV scans his fingerprint, which is entered into the DMV's database. From there, it is automatically sent to the California Crime Information Center and the National Crime Information Center. The fingerprint matches the record of a missing child in Boston, and John is reunited with his mother.
- Sarah, age 14, runs away from her home in Dallas. She has been gone for six months and is forced to turn to shoplifting to continue her flight. Her crimes are not large - a loaf of bread here, a carton of milk there - but eventually she is caught and fingerprinted in Tucson, Ariz. When her fingerprints are sent to the National Crime Information Center, they show that Sarah is a runaway from Dallas. The police are notified, and Sarah is reunited with her parents.
KIDS ARE 1ST needs your donations to continue our safety day events that save lives. You can use your charge card on secure PayPal (PayPal.com) to
or you can mail a check to
Kids Are 1st
PO Box 642164
Los Angeles, CA. 90064
All donations are tax deductible as we are a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, a tax letter will be provided for your donation. If your donation is receved before Jan. 1 your deduction can be for the 2010 tax year.
Please help us continue to save kid, teens and their families’s lives.
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