The mission of the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) is to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity resulting from severe illness or trauma.

To that end, EMSC funds and supports improvements in pediatric emergency care in every state and territory through competitive demonstration grants or cooperative agreements to state governments and accredited schools of medicine.

The four main programs in EMSC are:

• State Partnership (SP) grants that ensure that pediatric emergency care is integrated into the larger emergency medical services system.
  
• Targeted Issues (TI) grants that support innovative cross-cutting pediatric emergency care projects of national significance.
  
• State Partnership Regionalization of Care (SPROC) grants that develop systems of care models to improve pediatric emergency care capacity in rural and tribal communities.
  
• The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) which supports the infrastructure to conduct meaningful and rigorous multi-institutional studies in the management of acute illness and injury in children across the continuum of emergency medicine.

National EMS Week 2018 is May 20 - 26

*  Wednesday, May 23 is Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Day

*  The 2018 theme is "Stronger Together" 

The theme days for 2018 are:

• Monday - Education
  
• Tuesday - Safety Tuesday
  
• Wednesday - EMS for Children Day                                                        
  
• Thursday - Save-A-Life (CPR and Stop the Bleed)
  
• Friday - EMS Recognition Day

Please visit the Prehospital section of the EEIC website, the National EMS Strong website,  and the American Academy of Pediatrics for more information and resources as they become available.