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State Capacity Building
Program Planning & Implementation
It is important to have a plan and a direction to be able to address the public health epidemic of injuries and violence. Strategic planning can play an important role in:
- setting the direction for the overall program or an individual intervention
- engaging partners
- developing a data- based approach to priority setting
- identifying risk factors that apply to certain populations or settings
- implementing best practices
- evaluating programs and interventions
Program planning also involves developing a solid infrastructure for injury and violence prevention that includes:
- organizational strength,
- staffing,
- funding.
Staff should have the core competencies to address injuries and violence in their communities, and provide technical assistance and training to others.
Spotlight on the State
- A Health Department/College Partnership to Prevent Injuries through a Social Marketing Campaign in Massachusetts
- Alabama Child Death Review System
- California Local Public Health and the Built Environment Network
- Creating an Injury Prevention Basic Certificate Course in Delaware
- Iowa's Keeping Kids Safe Conference
- Using a Memorandum of Understanding to Promote Injury Prevention
CSN Presentations
- Best Practices Registries: What's "best"?
- Breaking the "Dusty Strategic Plan" syndrome: Moving planning to action for adolescent health
- Bridging the gap: bringing together intentional and unintentional injury prevention efforts
- Communicating traffic safety to newly-arrived Latinos: Developing effective traffic safety materials
- Developing educational materials on traffic safety for Spanish-speaking audiences
- How state health departments and injury control research centers can collaborate
- Implementation of a successful community-based incentives effort to promote rear seating and child passenger safety for Hispanic children
- Logic modeling to impact
- MCH as key partners in reducing motor-vehicle related injuries and deaths among teens
- Perspectives on Enhancing Injury Prevention Research and Practice
- Pieces of the program puzzle
- Telling your story: Marketing traffic safety programs
Useful Publications
- Communities taking action: Profiles of health equity. – A Prevention Institute database
- Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide
- Ideas for collaboration between injury control research centers and health department injury prevention programs
- [Archived Webinar] Creating Safer Schools & Healthier Children: A Model Bullying Prevention Program
CSN Publications
- Developing Injury Related Priority Needs and Performance Measures
- Helping MCH Programs Address Injury and Violence-Related Performance Measures
- Including injury and violence prevention in the Maternal and Child Health 5-Year Needs Assessment.
- MCH Program Injury and Violence-Related State Performance Measures and Priority Needs, 2011
- Overview of Landmark Injury Prevention Events in the United States 1882 - 2010
- Preventing Adolescent Injury: The Role of Health Plans
- Prevention Strategies by Developmental Stage
- Promoting bicycle safety for children: Strategies and tools for community programs.
- Promoting traffic safety for children and adolescents: State health departments in action.
- Violence & injury prevention: A special issue of AMCHP Pulse
- Weaving a safety net: MCH program self-assessment findings
- Where Injury Prevention Topics can be Addressed in MCH Settings