Help us build your healthier future
Parachute wants to create a safer Canada by preventing serious and fatal injuries through evidence-based solutions that advocate and educate. As a charity, we need your financial support so we can discover those solutions and get individuals, organizations and governments to adopt them. When it comes to keep Canadians healthy, an ounce of injury prevention truly is worth a pound of medical injury cure.
Unintentional poisonings overtake transport-related injuries as death cause in Canada
This new report, written by Parachute and the Injury Prevention Centre at University of Alberta, draws together statistics and research on poisonings in Canada and documents prevention work and strategies, both underway and recommended. One key finding reveals that twice as many people in Canada now die from unintentional poisoning, driven mostly by increase in opioid use, than from transport-related injuries.
It’s time to #HaveThisTalk
This public awareness campaign encourages parents to discuss the issue of cannabis and impaired driving with teens and young adults. #HaveThisTalk is part of Parachute’s Know What Impaired Means campaign, which raises awareness about how cannabis use negatively affects a person’s ability to drive safely, targeted to 15- to 24-year-olds.
Parachute in the news
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Parachute’s Pamela Fuselli talks with Preconceived Podcast host Zale Mednick: Does Western Society Fail Its Elders?
Preconceived – November 17, 2020
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Parachute’s Pamela Fuselli interviewed by Forum Daily on the findings of the Evidence Summary on the Prevention of Poisoning in Canada
The News Forum – November 13, 2020
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What can be done to prevent unintentional poisonings in Canada?
CBC Edmonton – November 5, 2020
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Canada’s opioid crisis killed 13 people a day in 2018, prevention report shows
Why injury prevention matters
At Parachute, Canada’s national charity dedicated to injury prevention, we know the majority of injuries are predictable, and preventable.
In Canada, unintentional injury is…
No.1 cause of death for people ages 1 to 34
Top 3 causes of death ages 35 to 64
One child dies every day on average from an injury
65% of injury-caused deaths in seniors stem from falls
Prevention works
In the past decade, we’ve seen fewer injury-related deaths in Canada thanks to better laws, products and education. How we can do more:
Our Vision
We envision a Canada free of serious injuries, with Canadians living long lives to the fullest.
We want people to play, explore and be active while avoiding hazards that can cause injury and death.
So go ahead and skydive – but wear your parachute, when you do.
Keep Canada healthy
Help us eliminate predictable and preventable injuries
Know the facts
Educate yourself, your family and your community using our online resources
Understand the best practices
Participate in our many programs
Promote our awareness campaigns
Take action
Advocate for changes in laws and regulations to build safer environments and for enforcement measures that will reduce injury.
As a charity, we rely on your financial support to continue our work.
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