North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center - UNC School of Medicine
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Burn Prevention and Community Outreach
The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center’s Burn Prevention Program is dedicated to sharing burn management, burn prevention and general information regarding the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center to lay, paraprofessional and professional groups in North Carolina. Various didactic programs are delivered across the state. These programs are based on the type of audience and their needs. Some of the audiences who request presentations include emergency departments, emergency medical squads, fire departments, civic organizations, nursing schools, and local schools.
The Outreach staff works closely with the fire service at the state and national level to promote fire and burn prevention education. State-wide programs initiated and endorsed by the Burn Center are:
In addition, Outreach members are active participants in efforts to pass legislative initiatives that promote fire and burn safety.
- Tamper Resistant Electrical Outlets - Every year, 2,400 children are treated in U.S. emergency rooms for injuries caused by inserting objects into electrical outlets.
- Fire Sprinkler Initiative - The Burn Center supports the Local Residential Fire Sprinkler Legislation that would require fire sprinklers in in all new residential construction.
- Fire-Safe Cigarette Bill - Ernest Grant served as chair of the North Carolina Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes and was a key liaison to state legislators who worked to pass the bill in Aug. 2007.
- Children's Sleepwear Safety Bill - The failed effort to revoke the 1996 amendments that loosened flammability standards for children’s sleepwear was strongly endorsed by the Burn Center. Work continues toward the goal of re-adopting pre-1996 standards for all children's clothing that could potentially be worn as sleepwear.