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Major IP Sites

APHA-ICEHS

  

The American Public Health Association's Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section's site offers upcoming conference information, meeting information, newsletters, and resources. Also see APHA's list of Injury and Violence Prevention links by clicking here. To view the extensive APHA bookstore, click here.

CDC

  

This is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Injury Prevention site. Like many CDC sites, it has almost too much information. The link connects users to funding information, fact sheets on specific injuries and publications, and an alphabetical listing of hundreds of "related web sites."

Center for Injury Research and Prevention

  

The newly designated Center for Injury Research and Prevention (formerly TraumaLink) is the umbrella organization for several research initiatives including Partners for Child Passenger Safety. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the Center draws on a team of researchers in medicine, engineering, behavioral science, public health, and communications to study injury from multiple perspectives.

CIPPP

  

The Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice at San Diego State University is a key link to all California Injury Prevention programs. In addition to an up-front link to the SafetyLit home page, it has a quick link to a policy home page.

EPIC

  

The Epidemiology & Prevention for Injury Control Branch is the California Department of Health Services General Information Injury Site. It also includes an Injury Data Site (EPICenter). EPIC is an essential connection to Injury Prevention specifics for California, funding links, information about how the state is organized, and its current priorities.

SAVIR

  

The Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research site is primarily for research information regarding violence and injury. The site contains a database of the projects that members are currently working on. The goal of the site is to promote scholarly activity in the prevention, control, acute care, and rehabilitation of intentional and unintentional injury.

SOPHE

  

The Society for Public Health Education's Unintentional Injury and Violence Prevention site is a good general intro to Injury Prevention. The Resources page includes a great set of links to all of the major national academic institutions that have injury programs and centers. It also has information on fellowships to study Injury Prevention.

STIPDA

  

The State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association site has publications, articles, and recommendations for Injury Prevention programs. It also has networking, advocacy help, and other benefits for registered members.

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Training

  • General Training Resources
    • InjuryEd.org , sponsored by the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, provides training resources for Injury & Violence Prevention. InjuryEd.org includes listings of trainings broken down by duration.
    • Train.org, sponsored by the Public Health Foundation, is a learning resource for public health professionals where users can search and sign up for local/national workshops regarding their area of interest. They can then track learning with personal online transcripts. There are also other resources and materials available.
    • The Center for Injury Research & Control (CIRCL) provides archived and recorded webinars on various injury prevention topics ranging from intentional injuries to ATV (All-Terrain Vehicle) injuries. Audio and powerpoints are included at CIRCL webinar trainings.
  • Leadership
  • Advocacy/Policy Training
    • InjuryEd.org provides powerpoint slides of Building Core Competencies for Policy Development in Injury Prevention. These slides contain the essential skills and knowledge that are regarded as necessary to work in injury and violence prevention. They also discuss the who, what, why, and how of the development of these core competencies.
    • Community Toolbox- Organizing for Effective Advocacy contains information on principles of advocacy (e.g., recognizing allies and opponents), conducting advocacy research, providing encouragement and education, conducting a direct action campaign (e.g., personal testimony letters), media advocacy, and responding to opposition.
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Programs

  • Program Planning
    • Community Toolbox- Implementing Promising Community Interventions contains information on illustrative interventions using the strategies of providing information and enhancing skills, enhancing support and resources, youth mentoring, modifying access and barriers, improving services, changing policies, and changing the physical and social environment.
    • PreventionInfo.org- Planning Framework has a six-step plan for program planning. Step 1 of the six-step plan provides separate resources specific to either community health planners or medical group planners.
  • Program Evaluation
      • Community Toolbox-Evaluation contains information on developing a plan for evaluation, methods for evaluation, and using evaluation to understand and improve the program.
      • Demonstrating Your Program's Worth: A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury (PDF of complete book)
        Shows program managers how to demonstrate the value of their work to the public, to their peers, to funding agencies, and to the people they serve.  The book's purpose is to show that managers and staff need not be apprehensive about what evaluation will cost or what it will show. Content includes how to conduct simple evaluations, how to hire and supervise consultants for complex evaluations, and how to incorporate evaluation activities into the activities of the injury prevention program itself.

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Publications

Note: the links provided are for your ease in locating these materials and are not an endorsement of a particular site.

  • Data
    • The EPICenter is here to help users access the data they need to support their injury prevention activities.  EPICenter allows users to have instant access to the most current data in a format that is easy to use. It includes summaries and tables on specific topics.
    • The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health allows users to search and display charts and tabular findings from individual survey items as well as derived key child health measures from these data sources. The user-friendly site can display state profiles, rankings, and information for key demographic groups. It is free and is available 24 hours a day.
    • The CDC offers interactive statistics, mapping systems, and various data related to injury, morbidity and mortality, and surveillance.
    • The Kaiser Family Foundation and State Health Facts Online, is a free resource with up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data from all 50 states.
    • The Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR), is a great resource for up-to-date research information and studies that are being done in the fields of violence and injury.
  • Journals
    • SafetyLit links users to Injury Prevention articles. Users can subscribe and get weekly emails. New abstracts are available weekly, with latest journal articles. SafetyLit invites IP professionals to establish a link to their update page.
    • The Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) offers peer-reviewed publications as well as its own research. The publications can be broken down by topic, date, and author.
    • Injury Prevention Journal (IP) is a leading peer-review journal for health professionals and others in the injury prevention field. The journal's international scope includes all types of unintentional injuries, as well as occupational and intentional (violence-related) injuries among all age groups. The full-text, archived IP Journal articles, over 1 year old, are online for free. To visit the IP Journal Archives, click here.
  • Books
    • Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies
      By Tom Christoffel, JD and Susan Gallagher, MPH 
      The second edition of this classic, published in 2006, presents the complex nature of injuries and violence in a highly comprehensible manner. It comes recommended by one of CIPN's members. It is readily available for purchase and you may read excerpts online.
    • Protecting the Public: Legal Issues in Injury Prevention
      By Tom Christoffel, JD and Stephen P. Teret, JD, MPH
      Most injury prevention measures involve the use of law, from federal safety standards to city ordinances. This book is a guide to legal issues for health professionals and policy makers. Iit is readily available for purchase online.
    • Injury Prevention for Children and Adolescents
      This book takes a detailed look at childhood and adolescent injuries, incorporating research, practice, and advocacy. It is recommended by, and available through, the American Public Health Association.
    • Reducing the Burden of Injury: Advancing Prevention and Treatment
      By Richard J. Bonnie, Carolyn E. Fulco, and Catharyn T. Liverman
      This book describes the cost and magnitude of the injury problem in America and looks at the response by the public and private sectors. You can read it online for free.
    • Demonstrating Your Program's Worth: A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury.
      A book on program evaluation. See above in the Program Evaluation Section.
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Funding

  • Funding Opportunities
    • CIPPP offers funding for Injury Prevention programs through Kids' Plates.
    • The CDC-Funds Page offers funding opportunities as well as resources and links to other sites that also offer funding.
    • CCLDHE-Funding has an extensive list of funding opportunities broken down by area of interest.
    • The Foundation Center has a searchable database that lists the type of funders and grants available for your area of interest.
    • NACCHO (National Association of County and City Health Officials) has a list of grants and funders specifically for Injury Prevention.
  • Grant Writing
    • The Foundation Center has training courses, online tutorials, and guides to help in the grant writing/proposal process.

Humor

It's good to include some lightness or humor in talks and presentations. Here are a few jokes to get you started (feel free to send us more) and some resources for purchasing cartoons.

The Timeless Wisdom of Mohan Singh

  • Jokes
    • 1. Doctor Jokes
      Doctor: Have you ever had this before?
      Patient: No.
      Doctor: Well, you've got it now.
    • 1b.
      Doctor: Have you ever had this before?
      Patient: Yes.
      Doctor: Well, you've got it again.
    • 2. Lawyer Joke
      Lawyer's personal injury:
      A golfer hooked his tee shot over a hill and onto the next fairway. Walking toward his ball, he saw a man lying on the ground, groaning with pain.

      "I'm an attorney," the wincing man said, "and this is going to cost you $5000."

      "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry," the concerned golfer replied. "But I did yell 'fore'."

      "I'll take it," the attorney said.
    • 3. Sport Injury Joke
      Andy came to work one day, limping terribly. His co-worker, Josh, asked Andy what had happened. Andy replied, "Oh, nothing. It's just an old hockey injury that acts up once in a while."

      Josh said, "Gee, I never knew you played hockey."

      Andy responded, "No I don't. I hurt it last year when I lost $100 on the Stanley Cup play-offs. I put my foot through the television."
    • 4. Vehicle Safety Joke
      A driver on a bus in Texas started to drive when a woman was only halfway off the bus. She was killed. The driver was tried for murder. He was convicted and, this being Texas, got the chair. On the day of the execution, the executioner grants him a final wish.

      "Well," says the condemned man, "is that your lunch over there?" The executioner nods. "Well, can I have that green banana?" The executioner gives him the banana and waits till he's eaten it. Then he flips the switch sending thousands of volts through the man. When the smoke clears, the man is still alive.

      "I can't believe it," says the executioner. "It has something to do with that banana, right?"

      "No," the man says, "I'm just a really bad conductor."
  • Cartoons
    • A New Yorker cartoon can really liven up a presentation. You can purchase the rights to use New Yorker cartoons in presentations, newsletters, books, etc. from the Cartoon Bank.
    • Visit the Baby Blues website to see the funny side of parenthood. You can buy the rights to use Baby Blues comic strips.