The Town hall called Gröna Kulle (in translation the Green Hill)

In the child and youth group school nurses and district nurses from child health care centers have analyzed the activities within their working areas. With the accident registration in the project LIND-RING as a base proposals have been initiated for actions to reduce and prevent injuries among children and young persons. Accident/near accident reporting is in progress in the schools and in the day care services.

The police has worked actively in the schools of the community and informed about traffic safety and the usage of bike helmets. Project LIND-RING has every year given all students (400) in grade four a discount note of SEK100 each for purchase of helmet.

The project cooperates with the "play borrow" in which all inhabitants can borrow play material and plays free of charge. Since the "play borrow" activity is a natural gathering point LIND-RING has made the kitchen child proof. There are also other child safety articles as well as information about child safety there. The nurses at the child health care centers use the facilities for parent education. A checklist for improved child safety has been compiled and translated into Arabic, Serbo-croatian, Cantonese, Somali and Vietnamese. All play grounds are inspected yearly and looked over every week by technicians.

At the "Play borrow" inhabitants have the possibility to borrow not only play materials but also child safety seats and lifejackets.

Child safety education during half a day, including first aid cardio pulmonary resuscitation, has been offered all personnel within the community's child care health centers. 128 persons have participated. First aid cardio pulmonary resuscitation training for grades 1–9 has been conducted in all primary schools in the community.

"Night wanderers" (parents/adults in town) are trained in first aid and in first aid cardio pulmonary resuscitation by Red Cross and are provided with first aid kits by the project LIND-RING.

The Emergency and Rescue services have fire prevention education in the compulsory school. There are youth fire brigades in Björkvik, one of the community's urban areas some 30 kilometers from the chief town.

One of the first tasks the traffic group received was to analyze, together with school staff, students and parents, the traffic situation around a primary school in the community. Suggestions on steps were introduced and was implemented in concert with parents, the school, the project and the technical administration.

• the street closed outside the school
• a new crosswalk created
• the bus stops were moved to a safer area
• school and parents informed all involved – school staff, parents and residents
• information as responsibility of the parents
• improvements in progress for picking up and leaving school children.

Similar activities will in the future be implemented at all primary and intermediate schools in the community. The Road administration region Mälardalen has contributed financially to make it possible to extend the work into the school project.

Violence and drug group

Representatives of the project management group are part of the working group for the network groups in the violence and drug prevention program that is under way within the child and youth delegation in Katrineholm community. For the delegation there is a politically selected management group, with chairman of the committee and head of administration for child, youth, education and social administrative services as members.

The work within the network has been focused on cross-sectorial cooperation for children in different ages. For each age group there are three working groups matching different community areas whereas the youth group only has one working group.

Personnel from individual and Personnel from school, individual and family care, primary care's BVC family care and the police and day care

Personnel from upper-secondary school and the police

Each group develops their own action plan. Also anti-mobbing plans exist. A drug user habit inquire was conducted 1995 and will be repeated. Parent education in school, drug free youth dance events and similar activities are also in the plans. At the Lucia disco 1998 and 1999 the project LIND-RING supported financially students from the intermediate school on the countryside to get a safe home transport by bus and at the end of the school year 1999 we supported bus transport for all school children back home.

Ten sport leaders have attended a 5 point university course in Public health science. Cooperation with sport clubs in the community is under development. A leaflet describing the sport clubs activities and plans has been compiled.

• during the autumn 1999 a reflector campaign has been carried out at the companies in the community
• work in progress to analyze injury and near injury reporting systems at various companies
• working on an injury and near injury reporting system for the farmers
• looking for farms for testing and evaluation of the form.
  

The group has analyzed the traffic situation for the elderly and the disabled within the Katrineholm urban area during spring 1997 and 1998. The findings have thereafter been communicated to the administration units with suggestions on actions to be taken.

The accident registration in the project LIND-RING shows that the main part of the accidents happen at home. A check list for the elderly have been compiled and also been translated into Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Cantonese, Somali and Vietnamese languages.

An action plan has been decided upon and a study circle, "Keep yourself on your feet", started in the autumn of 1997, aiming at reducing the home accident rate. The study circle was intended for the pensioners and disabled groups and personnel within the elderly and disabled health care in the community. Four study circles with totally 80 persons have been conducted. An elderly safety day was held in March 1998.

Together with the medically responsible nurse in the community a new form has been developed for accident/near accident reports within the elderly and disabled care.

It was tested during the autumn within one specific area and evaluated in spring 1999.

Britta Calminder from the elderly group in Katrineholm with the hip protection "Safe hip".

During the autumn 1999 a project was launched in cooperation with Katrineholm community and the county council Sörmland to prevent femur fracture by using the hip protection Safe hip.

• A discount note of SEK100 each for purchase of helmet has been given to inhabitants
• The accident registration is compiled by the nurse responsible for the registration at least once a year. The yearly statistics is reported to the public health council, community executive committee, county council and to the public via mass media.
• The information activities towards the inhabitants in the community have led to
• an increased awareness of the importance of preventing accidents.
• Increased use of telephone service line.
• The demand for safety equipment such as bicycle helmets, reflectory vests, usual reflectors and shoe spikes has increased.
• Less bicycle accidents during winter due to change of routines for snow clearance and sanding.
• Increased sanding around elderly residential areas in the urban area has been possible thanks to reallocating means from the elderly care to the technical administration.
• Ground fault circuit interrupters are being installed in all schools and day care centers in the community
• Follow up on accidents reported by the police
• Near accidents will be followed up in the future
• Speed checks in 30 and 50 kilometer areas
• Car safety belt usage
• Bicycle helmet usage
• Pedestrian crossing with traffic lights
• Visibility with reflectors
• Bicycle light usage from 1999.
• Pedestrian crossings without traffic light from 2000.
• Activity report compiled yearly
• Memorandum to be written after each meeting.
• In the traffic safety work counting of helmets has been carried out since 1996.
  

Suicide prevention:
Doctors have been educated in this area.

Programs aiming at "High risk-groups":

• Child health care centers work especially aimed at the immigrant groups. A special program, health improvement program for refugees has been developed in the community.
• Since three years back there is an alcohol-political program. It requires open admittance to treatment clinics. A well developed open-care unit exists in the community, with child groups, relative groups and various support groups for the addicts.
• Parents themselves can contact the open program of the family unit in the social service department when problems occur in the child-parent relation.
• In the Nävetorp project child health care center, day care services, school and social services department cooperate for en early discovery of children in the risk zone
• The school has an advanced plan for children and young persons. In the plan there are various sections dealing with mobbing prevention, read and write difficulties, violence prevention etc. In the project "Hitta vilse" (in translation "discover lead astray")
• have daycare services, school and police agreed on a plan on what to do if a child gets lost.
• Counseling service for crime victims
• Women's´ emergency advice center.
  

Surveillance of injuries:

The accident registration is in progress since April 1995 at the emergency ward of Kullberg hospital and at the three primary care health centers and ended March 31 2000.

Population base: 32 527

Publications: No

• Jan-Olov Karlsson, chairman of the project LIND-RING

• Anette Larsson-Fredriksson, project manager of LIND-RING

• Gunilla Ljungberg chairman of the children group

• Yngve Larsson, chairman of the elderly group

• Lars Ramstedt, chairman of the traffic group

• Roland Salomonsson, chairman of the sports group

• Jan-Olov Karlsson, chairman of the work life group

Organization:

The community of Katrineholm, the county council in Sörmland and primary health care within the community.

Specific intersectoral leadership group:

Public health council

Study visits: No

Participation in Safe Community conferences: Where?
1994 Harstad, Norway
1999 Reykavik, Iceland
1999 Wien, Austria

Hosting "Travelling Seminars": 2000 in cooperation with the community of Mariestad