The Child Passenger Safety Initiative is a program launched in the summer of 2001 to provide training and information about proper use of child passenger restraints in the health care setting. It is the first large-scale effort to integrate children passenger safety into health care services. A very high rate, 86%, of California's child passengers use safety restraints, but it is very far from certain that they are being used properly One survey suggests that nearly two-thirds of the seats were not being used properly in one way or another. The program is also emphasizing the new California rules requiring restraints to be used for children of a certain age and weight under the so-called "booster law." The intent of the initiative is to identify interventions that work best so they can be adopted by other health care providers.
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