Celebrate Safely: Holiday Firearm Safety Matters

This live discussion on firearm safety around the holidays includes information on safe storage, suicide prevention, hunting safety and Michigan's recently enacted firearm laws. It also includes a discussion of Store Safely, an initiative of the University of Michigan and the Marquette County (Mich.) Health Department to tailor firearm injury prevention messaging to rural communities.

The speakers are:
Cynthia Ewell Foster, Ph.D., a child psychologist in the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry and member of the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention who co-led the Store Safely program
Sarah Derwin, a health educator with the MCHD
Stephen Oliphant, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow with the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention

Resources discussed in the video:
Store Safely Project page: https://firearminjury.umich.edu/proje...
Safe firearm storage toolkit: https://firearminjury.umich.edu/safe-...
Extreme Risk Protection Order ("red flag" or ERPO) toolkit: https://firearminjury.umich.edu/erpo-...
Firearm Institute newsletter sign-up: https://umich.us12.list-manage.com/su...

The Store Safely project was funded in part by the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, or MICHR, through its Community Engagement Program's Promoting Academic and Community Engagement program.

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