Publications & Resources
CSN Presentations
This annotated list describes CSN presentations and trainings. Contact us if you would like to adapt our PowerPoints and supplemental materials for your own presentations or if you would like CSN staff to present at your meeting or conference.
Bike Safety
Communicating traffic safety to newly-arrived Latinos: Developing effective traffic safety materials
Based on a CSN publication "Guidelines for developing traffic safety educational materials for Spanish-speaking audiences". Describes how to develop culturally appropriate print educational materials (such as posters, brochures and fotonovelas) for newly-arrived Latinos to help keep them safe when driving, riding, biking or walking.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
New resources for injury and violence prevention
Describes the mission and intent of the Resource Center Consortium, lists the member centers and their services.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: Handouts, PowerPoint slides
Smart Growth/ healthy communities: The role of state health agencies
Describes the Smart Growth campaign. Discusses the benefits of partnership for state health agencies and MCH professionals.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Bullying Prevention
Bullying: The tip of the iceberg
Suggests what actions states can take to promote bullying-related injury and violence prevention. Discusses the national bullying prevention campaign "Stop bullying now!".
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 60 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
CSN's role in bullying and suicide prevention
Discusses: the structure of CSN; assisting the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau in achieving goals to reduce child and adolescent death and disability due to injury; state laws on bullying prevention; and connection between bullying and suicide.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Child Maltreatment
Preventing child abuse and neglect: The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) role
Reviews the scope of the problem, the public health approach, data issues, recommended strategies, and evaluation.
Audience: MCH professionals
Length: 30-45 minutes
Materials: None
Child Passenger Safety
Communicating traffic safety to newly-arrived Latinos: Developing effective traffic safety materials
Based on a CSN publication "Guidelines for developing traffic safety educational materials for Spanish-speaking audiences". Describes how to develop culturally appropriate print educational materials (such as posters, brochures and fotonovelas) for newly-arrived Latinos to help keep them safe when driving, riding, biking or walking.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Developing educational materials on traffic safety for Spanish-speaking audiences
Provides an overview of the Educacion de seguridad en el transito/ Education in Traffic Safety project, including a description of traffic safety risks to Latinos; a discussion of the importance of culturally competent materials; an overview of available Spanish-language traffic safety materials; recommendations on creating culturally-appropriate educational materials; and an optional interactive exercise on developing a new material.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 60-75 minutes
Materials: Exercise, PowerPoint slides
Heat-related deaths to young children and child care
Examines deaths more than 500 children exposed to heat in vehicles in 1995 - 2005, including 369 deaths to children in the passenger compartment that were heat-related.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Implementation of a successful community-based incentives effort to promote rear seating and child passenger safety for Hispanic children
Provides a case study of how to develop, implement and evaluate a community-based program.
Audience: Injury prevention professionals
Length: 60-90 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Savings from child occupant protection
Discusses the cost-effectiveness of child safety seat programs.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: Variable
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Data & Surveillance
An overview of the National Violent Death Reporting System
Provides an overview of the newest national data system overseen by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30-60 minutes
Materials: Fact sheet, PowerPoint slides
Delivered at a CSN webinar conducted by Monique Sheppard, Director of CSN Economics and Data Analysis Resource Center (EDARC), Dexter Taylor, CSN Associate Research Scientist, and Paul Jones, CSN Associate Research Scientist, on April 4, 2007. Available online, PowerPoint slides and presentation's audio recording.
Childhood injury and cost benefit analysis fact sheets of injury prevention interventions.
Reviews causes and cost of childhood injury. Presents cost-benefit analysis results of injury prevention and control interventions for these causes including: bicycle helmets, child safety seats, injury prevention counseling, and speed limits.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 35 minutes
Materials: Handouts
Childhood injury costs and prevention savings
Demonstrates how the costs of injury and the savings consequent of prevention efforts can be used to build support for injury prevention programs. Describes childhood injury costs for Washington, DC.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30-60 minutes
Materials: Fact sheet, PowerPoint slides
External cause coding improvement: Where have we come and where do we need to go
Compares the results of 1997, 2004, and 2006 state external cause coding surveys. Describes recommendations developed by the Workgroup for External Cause Coding Improvement (WECCI).
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: Handouts
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS): Things to know
Describes FARS and how it can be used by injury prevention practitioners.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: Variable
Materials: Information from FARS website, PowerPoint slides
Injury data basics for MCH programs
Promotes injury-related activities in MCH programs. Focuses on three topics: 11 data sets that are useful for the analysis of 14 injury types and injury risk factors; examples of technical assistance provided by CSN-EDARC with reference to the injury-related national performance measures; and a description of several CSN resources that can be used in efforts to better understand the incidence and cost of injury.
Audience: MCH professionals
Length: One hour
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Delivered at a CSN webinar facilitated by Dr. Ronda Zakocs, CSN Evaluation Expert, on May 9, 2007. Available online, PowerPoint slides
Injury data basics for school health professionals
Discusses the various datasets that can be used to describe injury incidence and risk in the state. Describes the technical assistance CSN EDARC provides and the resources it offers on the subject.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 90 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Evaluation
Focus groups: An introduction.
Reviews focus group techniques that can be used to establish needs and respond to your audience in developing programs in a social marketing framework.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 15-60 minutes
Materials: Case studies, handouts
Formative evaluation: An essential tool for MCH Programs
Describes how program evaluation fits into the program development and implementation cycle. Explains how formative evaluation can improve chances of program success. Provides examples and case studies.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: One hour
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Logic modeling to impact
Describes the value of building and using logic models for program planning and discusses how to build evaluation into a logic model to demonstrate impact.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 2 hours
Materials: PowerPoint slides, handouts
Outcome Evaluation: When to do it and how to get started
Provides guidance on whether and when to conduct outcome evaluations, and issues to consider for conducting outcome evaluations of: (1) "one shot" education programs; (2) evidence-based programs; and (3) new, or previously unevaluated programs. Tips will be offered on how to select the most appropriate outcome measures and comparisons.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 60 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Delivered at a CSN webinar facilitated by Dr. Ronda Zakocs, CSN Evaluation Expert, on May 23, 2007. Available online, PowerPoint slides.
Program Evaluation 101
Provides an overview of why, when, steps in evaluation, different types and levels of evaluation, examples for both intentional and unintentional injury prevention, and special considerations. The focus is on practical evaluation.
Audience: Public health professionals, local community people
Length: 30-60 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint, handouts
Program Evaluation Skills Building Workshop
Includes a didactic overview, group exercises, role playing, and case studies. This workshop can be customized to address the needs of the participants. Exercise topics cover types of evaluations, formative evaluation, focus groups, evaluation of educational materials, evaluation of community interventions, stakeholder interviews, informed consent, institutional review boards, evaluation design, barriers to evaluation, and implementation problems for formative, process, impact and outcome evaluations.
Audience: Public health professionals, community program staff, injury prevention professionals
Length: 1-2.5 days
Materials: PowerPoint slides, handouts
General/Multiple Causes
Community injury control grid
Provides an overview of the community injury control grid as a simple planning and evaluation tool for communities addressing the promotion of safety. Using examples, this presentation challenges communities to move beyond educational approaches to preventing injury.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 15-60 minutes
Materials: Injury control grid, PowerPoint slides
Don't sit still for climate change
Describes an ever increasing need for infrastructure and policies that permit safe walking, biking, and other physical activity and mobility in urban community settings.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Integration
Delivery of best practices through integration and partnering
Discusses how to incorporate or add injury and violence prevention messages, training, policy, etc. into existing MCH programs and services.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Maximize resources: Delivering injury and violence prevention through integration
Describes injury and violence prevention (IVP) integration as: inclusion of IVP in MCH programs; enhancement of MCH programs to improve services; efficient approach to reducing injuries and violence; and cost-effective alternative to stand-alone IVP programs.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Staying alive: The role of the school-based health care in injury and violence prevention
Describes the toll of injuries and violence on the health and well-being of children and adolescents. Explaines the value of integrating injury and violence prevention (IVP) into school-based health care programs and identifies specific strategies to address IVP needs of school students.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 60 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Off Road Vehicles
Snowmobile-related injury to children
Reviews the risks that snowmobiles present to children as well as interventions that promote the safe and responsible use of snowmobiles.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 15-60 minutes
Materials: None
Pedestrian Safety
Communicating traffic safety to newly-arrived Latinos: Developing effective traffic safety materials
Based on a CSN publication "Guidelines for developing traffic safety educational materials for Spanish-speaking audiences". Describes how to develop culturally appropriate print educational materials (such as posters, brochures and fotonovelas) for newly-arrived Latinos to help keep them safe when driving, riding, biking or walking.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
New resources for injury and violence prevention
Describes the mission and intent of the Resource Center Consortium, lists the member centers and their services.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: Handouts, PowerPoint slides
Smart Growth/ healthy communities: The role of state health agencies
Describes the Smart Growth campaign. Discusses the benefits of partnership for state health agencies and MCH professionals.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Poison Prevention
What exactly is a poisoning?
Describes different types of poisoning, their data, data collection challenges, and effectiveness of different prevention strategies.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Policy, Regulation & Legislation
Getting on the agenda of policy makers and staying there
Describes the types of information that are useful to policymakers and their staff, six techniques for effective communication with policymakers, and the role of advocates in effective communication.
Audience: Injury control and public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
The National Initiative to Improve Adolescent Health by the Year 2010: An overview.
Overviews this National Initiative, grounded in Healthy People 2010, and its 21 Critical Health Objectives. Describes 2 guides for states and communities: "Improving the health of adolescents and young adults" and "System capacity for adolescent health: Public health improvement tool".
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides, handouts
Why and How To Incorporate Policy and Advocacy in Your Work
Describes the strategies for getting the issue of injury prevention on policy makers' agenda.
Audience: Injury control and public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Working effectively with policymakers: A workshop
Provides an overview of principles and techniques that are effective in educating staff and policymakers, and explores the use of data and anecdotes to highlight the importance of investment in injury prevention strategies at the state and national levels. Participants have the opportunity to take roles in interactive scenarios and case discussions illustrating effective and ineffective methods of educating policymakers.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 90-120 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides, handouts
Program Planning & Implementation
Best Practices Registries: What's "best"?
A number of Federal agencies and national organizations have created registries of best practices containing information of use in injury and violence prevention. It is often difficult to draw on these resources effectively due to a number of factors including awareness of registries; inconsistency across registries; and differing definitions of "best practices". This presentation is an overview of best practices registries and discusses benefits and challenges of using these registries for community programming. Includes information on a series of 'best practice' guides for community agencies that CSN is developing.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 15 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Breaking the "Dusty Strategic Plan" syndrome: Moving planning to action for adolescent health
Describes strategic planning is as a cyclic process of preparing, planning and acting. Provides a list of practical tips for building action into planning.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides, handouts
Bridging the gap: bringing together intentional and unintentional injury prevention efforts
Highlights the elements needed to build partnerships and sustain programs regardless of the intent of the injury and provides examples of natural intersection between these two types of programs.
Audience: Public health professionals, injury prevention professionals
Length: 30-60 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Communicating traffic safety to newly-arrived Latinos: Developing effective traffic safety materials
Based on a CSN publication "Guidelines for developing traffic safety educational materials for Spanish-speaking audiences". Describes how to develop culturally appropriate print educational materials (such as posters, brochures and fotonovelas) for newly-arrived Latinos to help keep them safe when driving, riding, biking or walking.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Developing educational materials on traffic safety for Spanish-speaking audiences
Provides an overview of the Educacion de seguridad en el transito/ Education in Traffic Safety project, including a description of traffic safety risks to Latinos; a discussion of the importance of culturally competent materials; an overview of available Spanish-language traffic safety materials; recommendations on creating culturally-appropriate educational materials; and an optional interactive exercise on developing a new material.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 60-75 minutes
Materials: Exercise, PowerPoint slides
Developing effective state injury prevention plans.
Provides an overview of strategic planning, including goals, types of plans, who should be involved in planning, and what to include in a state injury prevention plan.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 1-2 days or 20 minutes
Materials: Handouts
Finding funding for your injury prevention program.
Provides information on maximizing state public health resources, approaching foundations for support, and accessing your state's resources.
Audience: State and local health department personnel
Length: 30-45 minutes
Materials: Fact sheet
How state health departments and injury control research centers can collaborate
Illustrates how challenges can be met through collaboration with ICRCs and provides guidance for initiating collaboration.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides; fact sheet
Implementation of a successful community-based incentives effort to promote rear seating and child passenger safety for Hispanic children
Provides a case study of how to develop, implement and evaluate a community-based program.
Audience: Injury prevention professionals
Length: 60-90 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Logic modeling to impact
Describes the value of building and using logic models for program planning and discusses how to build evaluation into a logic model to demonstrate impact.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 2 hours
Materials: PowerPoint slides, handouts
MCH as key partners in reducing motor-vehicle related injuries and deaths among teens
Describes the scope of motor vehicle related injuries to teens and identifies partners and resources to assist state MCH agencies. Discusses strategies to integrate promising and evidence-based practices into MCH.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Pieces of the program puzzle
Discusses how the major "pieces" of injury prevention programming - planning, implementation, and evaluation - might be implemented in communities.
Audience: MCH professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Telling your story: Marketing traffic safety programs
Teaches public health and traffic safety professionals how to sustain traffic safety programs by marketing these programs to individuals and organizations that can provide resources, funds, and other support. This workshop includes a core session on building and sustaining programs through effective marketing as well as skill-building sessions on creating project descriptions, brochures, and other products; working with the media; and delivering effective presentations.
Audience: Community-and state-level traffic safety and law enforcement professionals
Length: 2-6 hours
Materials: Instructor's guide, handouts, PowerPoint slides
Rural & Farm Safety
Kids in the country: Injury risks, hazards, and resources
Discusses the opportunities and limitations of promoting safety in rural areas with low population density, as well as the injury risks to children and adolescents who live, work, and play in rural communities.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 15-60 minutes
Materials: Handouts
Youth and suicide in U.S. agriculture
Discusses the role of stress in the suicidal behavior of youth living and working on farms and ranches.
Audience: Public health and school professionals
Length: 15-60 minutes
Materials: Handouts
Sports Safety
Snowmobile-related injury to children
Reviews the risks that snowmobiles present to children as well as interventions that promote the safe and responsible use of snowmobiles.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 15-60 minutes
Materials: None
Suicide Prevention
CSN's role in bullying and suicide prevention
Discusses: the structure of CSN; assisting the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau in achieving goals to reduce child and adolescent death and disability due to injury; state laws on bullying prevention; and connection between bullying and suicide.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Developing Comprehensive Suicide Prevention
Discusses National and State performance measures related to suicide prevention/mental health promotion and how defining such state performance measures serves to foster collaborations among state agencies. These collaborations are positioned to select, adapt and deliver evidence-based approaches to preventing suicide.
Audience: Public Health Professionals
Length: 15-20 minutes
Materials: Handouts, PowerPoint slides
Intersection of prevention science and community
Describes public health and community approaches to suicide prevention. Explains how evidence-based suicide prevention programs can be integrated into community settings.
Audience: Public health and school professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Moving from science to service in mental health promotion
Describes mental health evidence-based programming and its challenges. Explains how the major strategies of suicide prevention could be applied to violence prevention programming.
Audience: Public health and school professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Suicide prevention training
Explains training as one aspect of suicide prevention. Describes: Gatekeeper training programs in schools and communities; general suicide education; and peer support programs.
Audience: Public health and school professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Suicide prevention: Determining the importance of place
Explores suicide and suicide prevention in rural states and communities.
Audience: Public health and school professionals
Length: 45 minutes
Materials: Handouts
Youth and suicide in U.S. agriculture
Discusses the role of stress in the suicidal behavior of youth living and working on farms and ranches.
Audience: Public health and school professionals
Length: 15-60 minutes
Materials: Handouts
Teen Driving Safety
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS): Things to know
Describes FARS and how it can be used by injury prevention practitioners.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: Variable
Materials: Information from FARS website, PowerPoint slides
Increasing teen seat belt use in your community: Best practices workshop
Includes a discussion of the problem, a quiz on teen seat belt use, and team planning exercise.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 3 hours
Materials: PowerPoint slides, handouts
MCH as key partners in reducing motor-vehicle related injuries and deaths among teens
Describes the scope of motor vehicle related injuries to teens and identifies partners and resources to assist state MCH agencies. Discusses strategies to integrate promising and evidence-based practices into MCH.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 30 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
What's not in your wallet: Young unlicensed driving in the U.S.
Young people who are socially disadvantaged (e.g., have a single parent or low income) may not be able to meet the requirements of graduated licensing laws which mandate long periods of supervised driving or have access to paid behind-the-wheel training. The presentation discusses how MCH and other public health professionals can advocate for and implement programs that will make driver education, training and licensing available to all regardless of their socioeconomic status or where they live.
Audience: Traffic safety professionals and advocates
Length: 15 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides
Young unlicensed drivers: Scope and nature of the problem in the U.S.
Describes the problem of young unlicensed drivers in the United States through two studies based on 1998-2004 data.
Audience: Public health and traffic safety professionals
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides, journal article
Young Worker Safety
Keeping young workers safe: The problem and State and Federal responses
Summarizes Federal and national efforts to address the issue of young workers injuries.
Audience: Federal, State, and local health, labor and education professionals
Length: 45 minutes
Materials: Script, PowerPoint slides
Safe Work/Safe Workers training of trainers
Trains teachers, job placement professionals, and state agency staff to use an occupational safety and health curriculum for high school students. The 3-4 hour curriculum provides teens with information and skill-building exercises related to child labor laws, identifying and addressing workplace hazards, and effective communication skills. The training of trainers also provides participants with ideas and strategies for integrating the curriculum into existing programs and activities to promote young worker safety.
The 3-4 hour curriculum provides teens with information and skill-building exercises related to child labor laws, identifying and addressing workplace hazards, and effective communication skills.
Audience: Teachers, job placement professionals, and personnel from state departments of education, labor, and health
Length: 2-4 hour
Materials: Teacher's guide, handouts, PowerPoint slides
Young Worker Safety: State and Local strategies
Provides an overview and examples of community and State initiatives to protect young workers. This workshop also describes the value of creating multi-disciplinary young worker safety teams representing educators, employers, public health professionals, regulators and community organizations.
Audience: State and local health, labor and education professionals
Length: 45 minutes
Materials: Script, guidebook, PowerPoint slides
Youth@Work: Teaching teens about safety and health in the workplace
Provides an overview of the reasons young people are injured on the job at higher rates than their adult counterparts and the information and skills teens need to be safe at work. Safe @ Work is a curriculum designed to teach this information; this presentation describes the contents of the curriculum and engages participants in some of its activities.
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: Presentation - 45 min.; workshop - 5 hours
Materials: PowerPoint slides, teacher guide with handouts, activities
Youth Violence Prevention
Bullying: The tip of the iceberg
Suggests what actions states can take to promote bullying-related injury and violence prevention. Discusses the national bullying prevention campaign "Stop bullying now!".
Audience: Public health professionals
Length: 60 minutes
Materials: PowerPoint slides