“The heroes of life’s journey”
By Dr. Charles Tator, co-founder of Parachute When Angela MacDonald asked me to write the forward to her 2022 book, Absolutely I’m Possible, I was thrilled because I love talking about the good things that have happened to me and the good things that I have been a “witness” to that have happened to other […]
Brain Waves alumnus at frontlines of pandemic response
By Kelley Teahen, Parachute Vice President, Communications and Marketing. Dr. Gray Moonen, 31, has become famous in Canada for his #FacesFightingCovid campaign. As a resident physician at the University of Toronto, he’s taking photos and sharing stories of all hospital workers helping patients infected with COVID-19. But he would never have ended up on this medical […]
Celebrating a toll-free poison centre number, a decade in the making
By Pamela Fuselli and Dr. Kathy Belton There are not many days that stand out when injury prevention racks up a monumental success. March 20, 2023 was one of those days, when Health Canada announced 1-844-POISON-X. Now, a toll-free number may not seem all that impressive to you but, for those many people who have […]
Creating a common language for injury prevention
By Pamela Fuselli, President and CEO, Parachute While injuries are the No.1 cause of death for people in Canada ages 1 to 44, there are almost no formal training opportunities on injury prevention. Parachute is working to fill that gap, starting with our new Introduction to Injury Prevention e-learning course. Those who currently work in the […]
I may be tired, but I can’t turn away
By Pamela FuselliPresident and CEO, Parachute Your child shouldn’t drown because I know how to prevent drownings. Your teenager shouldn’t die in a speeding car that crashed because I know how that crash could have been avoided. Your parent shouldn’t fall, break their hip, suffer a concussion and die or move to a long-term-care facility […]
Introducing Canadian Injury Prevention Day
By Pamela FuselliPresident and CEO, Parachute Since July 2017, Parachute has been leading a National Injury Prevention Day to raise awareness about the prevalence, high cost, and preventability of serious injury in Canada. What started as a small social media campaign has grown into a national health awareness day recognized by Health Canada. Across the […]
Odette Lachance – One mother’s fight for young driver safety
By Sandra Padovani, Parachute Communications Specialist On March 23, 2018, Odette’s son Thomas, then only 17, was hit by a drunk driver. The next day, he died of his injuries. It was in the wake of this tragedy that it became obvious – the need to save lives that could be spared, as the driving […]
Our best story is no story
By Kelley Teahen, Vice President, Communications and Marketing, Parachute. “Your victories are stories written in data, starring invisible heroes who save invisible victims.” This line, from the first chapter of the just-released book Upstream: The quest to solve problems before they happen, made me gasp in recognition. The author, Dan Heath, is explaining why we have […]
Parachute co-founder remembered
Parachute’s President and CEO pays tribute to Paul Kells, who founded Safe Communities Canada and played a key role in the amalgamation that created Parachute as Canada’s national charity dedicated to injury prevention.
Preventing home injuries in the time of COVID-19
By Pamela Fuselli, President and CEO of Parachute, Canada’s national injury prevention charity, and Dr. Suzanne Beno, Injury Prevention Chair, Canadian Paediatric Society. These are challenging times. Parents are working from home, supervising children, and many have become ad hoc teachers as their children are also at home for the foreseeable future. Early indications suggest […]