ABOUT
Project Overview
The Johns Hopkins Smoke Alarm Project is a FEMA sponsored initiative led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and local tribal health organizations. The Johns Hopkins Smoke Alarm Project works alongside tribal communities in order to reduce fire injury and the risk of fire, through developing a sustainable pipeline for smoke alarms and educational materials.
Project Goals
Training and Education
The Johns Hopkins Smoke Alarm Project helps to train in-home educators on home fire safety. The project also provides a curriculum that provides information on how community members can keep their families and homes safe from fire.
Safety Visits
Educators will visit residents in their homes and help them with fire safety activities such as assessing smoke alarms within the home, developing fire safety plans, and assessing heating areas.
Smoke Alarm Installation
Through this project, smoke alarms are provided free of charge to partnered tribal communities. During the in-home safety visit, educators will take note of fire alarms already present within the home, and install alarms where needed.
After a tribal community has expressed their interest...
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The JHU Smoke Alarm Project team and community partner engage in a 30-minute introductory call to discuss the project and to learn about their community and the smoke alarm needs within their community.
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After receiving an estimate of the number of smoke alarms a community requires, the JHU Smoke Alarm Project team places an order for alarms to be shipped directly to the project partner
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Project partners are sent all necessary training and curriculum materials for program implementation
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Project partners go out into the community to install smoke alarms, teach community members about home fire safety, and collect information about existing alarms in the home. The Smoke Alarm Project team regularly checks in with partners about implementing this project in their community.