Need Help?
CSN staff offers assistance to State health department staff to increase your capacity to address childhood injuries and violence. Our Technical Assistance Specialists coordinate technical assistance between States and CSN’s injury prevention experts on any number of childhood injury prevention topics and in a variety of capacity building areas. They are available for consultation by telephone and email and, in some situations, are available for presentations at meetings and conferences.
Here are a few ways we can help you. Please contact your Technical Assistance Specialist with any state technical assistance requests
Data Analysis
CSN can provide:
- Comparisons of your State’s injury data to national data
- Advice on what data your State should be collecting
- Cost data on childhood injuries in your State
- Cost-savings data on injury prevention programs
- Strategies for explaining injury data to policy makers and non-public health audiences
- Information on which populations in your State and nationally are most vulnerable to particular injuries
Capacity Building
CSN can provide:
- Guidance on the process of strategic planning for your State IVP program
- Ideas for leveraging funding
- Strategies for building and maintaining partnerships
- Examples of successful legislation and policies
- Consultation on the evaluation of your injury prevention programs and partnerships
- Discussion with other injury professionals through our CSN Discuss listserv
Best Practices and Research
CSN has access to more than 4,000 injury and violence prevention publications and databases. We can provide you with:
- Examples of best practices and model programs implemented at the State and local level
- Information on the initiatives of national organizations
- Literature searches on specific injury prevention topics
- Copies of articles from peer reviewed journals with the latest research and evaluation of injury prevention interventions
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