Provider Packet

Dear Health Care Provider:

Welcome to the lokitup.org website. The resources available on this site can help you play an important role in encouraging safe storage of firearms. The 1990’s saw a dramatic increase in firearm fatalities among youth. Now, though violent crime rates are decreasing, rates of suicide and preventable firearm injuries aren’t improving in the new millennium.

Talking with your patients about safe gun storage can help turn the tide. The links below will take you to resources that will answer some of your questions about the efficacy of physician counseling on this topic and give you racts that you can use when talking with patients.

Thank you for taking the time to peruse these materials. Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, PublicHealth Seattle King County, Snohomish Health District, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Kitsap County, and the Washington State Department of Health are working together to provide these materials to you.

We hope you can use these resources to help make homes safer for children.

• Posters
• Patient education brochures
  • Firearm Locking Devices (PDF)
  • Healthy Kids are Cute, Capable, and Curious
  • Guns in the Home (PDF)
  • Teens, Depression and Guns (PDF)
• Discount coupon for safe storage devices
• Sample questions to raise the issue of safe gun storage
• Abstracts of key articles on safe storage
• Sources for firearms safe storage