Beterem’s Nation Wide Programs

 

Beterem works in close collaboration with government offices, local municipalities and other public authorities combining a multifaceted approach towards preventing injuries and promoting children's' safety. We promote child safety in 3 main national trajectories:

1.    National Child Safety Action Plan: Israel is joining 26 countries in a global effort led by the European Child Safety Alliance to promote a National Child Safety Action Plan. This plan is interdisciplinary, incorporates all relevant government agencies and serves as a "road map" for government action to promote child safety.

2.    Beterem in the City: This program aims to promote child safety through collaboration with local authorities across the country. The program was developed based on the perception that municipalities determine the framework and methods that may support child safety promotion locally. In addition, based on international experience, success in injury prevention is best achieved via municipality intervention.

3.    NAPIS (National Pediatric Injury & Surveillance System): This program serves as a work tool to promote child safety in Israel by collecting and consolidating information on child injuries from medical facilities all over Israel. NAPIS incorporates child injury data from various sources, making it readily available for child safety action plans.

Beterem is leading 3 national-level projects in collaboration with multiple partners from both the national and municipal government: a National Child Safety Action Plan; "Beterem in the City" for the promotion and management of child safety in local authorities; and the National Pediatric and Injury Surveillance (NAPIS) for the collection, processing, analysis and use of Israeli child injury data.