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The Center for High-Risk Outreach is active with several other fire and life safety initiatives:
- working on safety programs for people with disabilities.
- working with the U.S. Fire Administration and the Mississippi High-Risk Fire Safety Task Force to provide and install nearly 9,000 smoke alarms – with 10-year lithium batteries – in homes throughout Holmes County, MS.
- working in targeted high-risk communities with high fire death rates.
- implementing the Learn Not to Burn® Preschool Program and Mis primeros pasos, the Spanish version of the LNTB Preschool Program, in low-income communities and to reach parents, family members, and other caregivers with fire and life safety information.
- implementing Los buenos recuerdos, the Spanish version of Remembering When™ in Latin America and Spanish-speaking communties in the U.S.
- promoting the use of the "A Lighter is Not a Toy" video to parents of preschoolers.
- working on the Home Security and Fire Safety Initiative, providing engineering, enforcement, and educational solutions to some of the problems that increase risk.
- working with the Navajo Nation Fire Safety Coalition to reduce fire deaths and related injuries through implementation of the Risk Watch® program, Remembering When, smoke alarm installations, and other programs.
- assisting Canada's Assembly of First Nations develop an adaptation of LNTB called "Wisdom of the Fire-LNTB." The Center is providing original illustrations by Navajo artist Irving Toddy for all the "Wisdom of the Fire-LNTB" lessons.
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