WA Firearm Tragedy

Prevention Network 2020 Spring Meeting

Welcome!Virtual (Zoom)| May 20, 2020

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AgendaSpring 2020 Meeting

11:00 – 11:10 AM

10 min

Welcome, Network Info/Refresher

Network Leadership

11:10 – 11:20 AM

10 min

Introductions

Facilitators

11:20 – 11:50 AM

30 min

Resource sharing

Keeping Families Safe During COVID-19

Dr. Fred Rivara, Firearm Policy and Injury Research Program, Harborview

Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington

Household Safety During Stressful Times: Tips for Gun Owners

Karyn Brownson, Public Health Seattle-King County

Safer Homes, Suicide Aware: upcoming trainings and program updates

Brett Bass, Safer Homes Suicide Aware

11:50 AM – 12:00 PM

10 min

Q&A

Everyone

12:00 – 12:10 PM

10 min

Breakout Session: Opportunity for Small Group Networking and

Discussion

Everyone

12:10 – 12:15 PM

5 min

Meeting Wrap-Up & Evaluation

Thank you for spending your afternoon with us!

Network Objectives & Activities

Bring individuals, organizations and resources together in a

non-political way to learn; network; share information and

resources; and identify areas of opportunity to work together

as it relates to firearm tragedy prevention.

Network Activities:

• Share research, evaluation and best practices

• Build partnerships and identify opportunities to collaborate

• Educate children, youth, families, adults and community

advocates about preventing firearm tragedies

• Use a public health approach to prevent firearm tragedies

• Bring an equity, race and social justice lens to this work

Network Format & Structure

• De-Politicized (no legislative/political agenda)

• Open membership

• 4-hour* meetings, twice per year: focus on networking, sharing and building an environment of trust and collaboration

– Meeting locations alternate around the state

– Topics and presentations selected with input and requests from Network members

• Email updates/sharing in between meetings

* Shorter virtual meetings when needed

Keys to Success

• A collaborative approach that builds on the strengths of all

members

• Respect for others (ideas, opinions, etc.)

• All members have a voice

• Identify priorities, goals and establish action plan

• Public health approach

• Shared leadership

Shared Leadership

Why be involved in the Network?

• Access and help create, collect, share and maintain easily

accessible resources/toolkits

• Collaborate, network, knowledge share & build partnerships

• Facilitate messaging and programming

• Learn and gain understanding of multiple perspectives

• Promote a culture of firearm tragedy prevention/safety in WA

• Identify areas of research opportunities

Introductions

Facilitators

Presenters

• Dr. Fred Rivara, Firearm Policy and Injury Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington

• Karyn Brownson, Public Health Seattle-King County

• Brett Bass, Safer Homes Suicide Aware

Keeping families safe from firearm

injuries

Fred Rivara, MD, MPHFirearm Policy and Injury Research ProgramHarborview Injury Prevention & Research CenterUniversity of Washington Email: fpr@uw.edu

Firearm Injury and Policy Research Program:

Mission

To reduce the impact of firearm injury and

death on people’s lives through

interdisciplinary research and collaboration

with institutional, community, and

governmental partners.

COVID and firearms

• 3.7 million firearm background checks were completed in

March 2020- a 40% increase in the rate of firearm

background checks compared to March 2019

• Few new owners are getting safety training

• Concerns for increases in family violence

• Well documented increases in depression and loneliness

with COVID social distancing

Methods of self harm and lethality

Means % Fatal

Firearms 89%

Suffocation/hanging 69%

Jump from height 31%

Poison/overdose 2%

Cutting 1%

Other 3%

Firearms in Washington state households with

children

Morgan et al, JAMA Peds 2018

Household firearm ownership among older adults,

Washington State 2016

Concern Firearms stored loaded and

unlocked

Depression 15%

Chronic alcohol use 7%

Confusion/memory loss in

prior yr15%

Overall, 39% had a firearm in the home

Effect of gun safe storage on deaths of

children and adolescents

Effect of

safe storage

Reduction in firearm suicide 78%

Reduction in accidental shootings 85%

Reduction in shootings with handguns 83%

Reduction in shootings with long guns 75%

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Grossman, 2005

Firearm storage practices in homes with

children. Washington State, 2015-2018

Gun safety device

currently usedPercent

Guns safe/lock box 51%

Cable lock/trigger lock 34%

None 29%

Not all firearms in home

locked

40%

Not all firearms stored

unloaded

39%

Not all ammunition stored

locked40%

Effect of the Seattle Children’s

Safe Storage eventsBaseline Follow-up Difference

% % % change

All firearms locked 63.7% 77.5% +13.7%

All firearms unloaded 62.7% 71.2% +8.5%

All ammunition locked 54.6% 60.8% +6.3

All firearms stored locked &

unloaded, and ammunition stored locked

32.9% 45.5% +12.6%

Simonetti et al, Injury Prevention 2018

Places for temporary storage of firearms˚http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/firearm-storage-wa/

59 sites agreed to be listed

Other resources

Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens:

Fact sheets:

www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/facts/factsheets.html

Training videos on counseling and safe storage:

www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/facts/training-videos.html

Resource Sharing

Household Safety During Stressful Times: Tips

for Gun Owners

Karyn Brownson, Public Health Seattle-King County

• Find support and connection.

• Reduce kids’ access to family firearms.

• Notice how stress affects you and your family.

• Information from credible sources.

Resource Sharing

Safer Homes, Suicide Aware: Upcoming

trainings and program updates

Brett Bass, Safer Homes Suicide Aware

• Virtual firearms safety training.

• Suicide prevention training for veterans.

• Virtual/remote interventions for distribution of locking

equipment.

Q&A

Please put questions in the chat box

(text your name and questions to Lara at 415-948-5674 if you

don’t have access to Zoom)

Breakout session

Small group networking and discussion

• Introduce yourself (name and organization/affiliation)

• What brought you to today’s meeting?

• Other resources to share?

Wrap-up

Follow up questions and resource sharing (email gunsafety@seattlechildrens.org)

Evaluation

Thank you!Fall 2020 meeting: November (date TBD)

Website: Seattlechildrens.org/FTPN

Email: gunsafety@seattlechildrens.org