About Risk Watch

Risk Watch is an injury prevention program for children in preschool through eight grade. It is designed to help children and families create safer homes and communities by teaching them skills and knowledge they need to make positive choices about their personal safety and well-being.

Risk Watch is the first comprehensive injury prevention curriculum available for use in schools. It is developed by the National Fire Protection Association and Lowe’s Home Safety Council.

The program provides students with an unprecedented opportunity to learn about injury prevention, to apply that knowledge in practice situation, and to develop and expand each students safety knowledge, risk awareness, independent thinking and social responsibility, prevention behaviors and motivation to protect oneself and others.

The Mississippi EMSC program is federally funded designed to provide programs to decrease childhood injuries and provide education to health professionals to ensure that critically injured children receive the best possible care available in Mississippi.

The Risk Watch curriculum and the teacher workshop are provide to each school at no cost. Each school wishing to participate in the Risk Watch Program must designate a person to be the Risk Watch Coordinator for the school.

Any school interested in obtaining information about the program may contact:

or call 601-576-7380.

Participating Schools

The following are schools in Mississippi that are participating in the Risk Watch Program:

• Tchula
• Bassville
• Bogue Chitto
• Brookhaven
• Covington County Schools
• Enterprise
• Lipsey
• Louisville
• Loyd Star
• Mendenhall
• Prentiss
• Gulf Coast Schools