Region 4: Southeastern Regional Injury Control Network (SERICN)
States:
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Year founded:
1990
Membership:
- State injury prevention directors
- Staff from CDC-funded injury control research centers at University of Alabama–Birmingham & University of North Carolina
- Other state and county-level injury prevention staff
- Representatives from state Governor's Highway Safety Offices
- Representatives from private groups (e.g. health care organizations)
- Federal partners from CDC, NHTSA & CPSC
- Children's Safety Network staff
- STIPDA National Office staff
Procedures and Communications:
- Monthly conference calls
- Tri-annual in-person meetings
- Electronic mailing list
- Website: http://www.iprc.unc.edu/pages/sericn/index.html
Selected projects/activities:
- Engaged in strategic planning and identified priority issues
- Sponsored a childhood agriculture workshop, which brought together SERICN members and Region 4 state agriculture extension agents to share information and plan future collaboration around agricultural safety for children.
- Created and published a data book for child and adolescent fatal injuries.
For more information, contact Malia Richmond-Crum at mrichmond-crum@edc.org
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