As a corporate or supporting sponsor, you have the opportunity to support and help lead a nationally visible child injury prevention initiative and demonstrate proactive corporate responsibility by helping to protect children at their most vulnerable age. Your sponsorship will help prevent a child from facing reconstructive surgery, permanent scarring, and trauma that lasts a lifetime.

Our Foundational Philosophy

Across the United States each year, millions of people are bitten by dogs. The most devastating injuries occur disproportionately in children under the age of five—often in their own homes, involving a beloved family dog. These are not stray-dog incidents. They are predictable—and often preventable—breakdowns in supervision, education, and understanding of canine behavior. But this is not just an American issue.

Dog ownership is global. Children and dogs live together in families across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The Internet has erased borders—and so must prevention. Be BiteSmart SM (BBS) is built with that reality in mind.

Our educational videos and digital tools—both current and in development—are freely accessible online. We are committed to delivering them to families anywhere in the world. Initially in English and Spanish, BBS education will expand into additional languages as needed.

Free matters. When prevention and education require payment, the families most at risk are often left behind. By making our science-based resources free and digitally accessible, we remove economic barriers and extend protection to households and communities—regardless of income or geography.

Every serious dog bite involving a child represents far more than a single event. In the United States and other developed regions, these injuries frequently result in devastating craniofacial trauma, reconstructive surgeries, and psychological harm lasting years. A child’s sense of safety, identity, and development can be permanently altered in a matter of seconds.

This risk knows no boundaries—affecting children in every community, in every part of the world.

In many parts of the world, the consequences are even more severe. In regions where rabies remains endemic and access to timely medical care is limited, a bite from a street or community dog can be a death sentence. Tens of thousands of people—predominantly children die each year from rabies transmitted through these bites.

These are not entirely unavoidable tragedies, but in many cases they are preventable.

While our platform is designed to scale to reach hundreds of millions of children worldwide, our purpose remains grounded in something far more fundamental: one child at a time.

Because when a single child is spared a devastating injury—or spared death from a preventable bite—what has been preserved is not simply a moment, but a life trajectory. A childhood uninterrupted by preventable trauma. A future not defined by avoidable harm. A life that will go on to touch countless others in ways we cannot fully measure.

Please help us share this message: free, science-based education—designed for downloading and sharing—is available to any parent, caregiver, school, hospital, or injury prevention organization, anywhere in the world.

“A child will face many challenges in life. A preventable injury should not be one of them.
If together we prevent even one devastating injury—or save even one life—we will have preserved something immeasurable.”

~ Chris P. Janelli, Co-founder, Be BiteSmart Global Initiative