Goal 3: Expand programmatic efforts, and facilitate opportunities for
collaborative injury prevention initiatives focusing on the four leading
causes of unintentional injury among children residing in neighborhoods at
disproportionate risk
Anticipated Impact
1. Reduce the number of mechanism-specific fatalities and injuries resulting from preventable
injuries among infants, toddlers, and young children in the metro Denver area, with special
emphasis on African-American and Hispanic families living in the targeted neighborhoods.
2. Increase the knowledge of young children, their parents, and caregivers about how to
prevent injuries in the identified high-risk zip codes by conducting prevention education
and outreach opportunities to residents of these communities, and measuring progress
toward this increase.
3. Reduce the barrier of access to evidenced-based injury prevention strategies and resources
among parents, caregivers, and other child guardians in identified high-risk neighborhoods by
providing targeted programming to address mechanism-specific injury challenges.
Strategy 3.1
Concentrate Safe Kids Denver Metro coalition prevention, education, and outreach efforts
to target parents and caregivers of children residing in neighborhoods at disproportionate
risk for the four leading causes of unintentional injuries, as determined by Colorado Hospital
Association data for Emergency Department utilization.
Strategy 3.2
Monitor federal and state legislation that impacts the prevention of injuries and
enhancement of opportunities to improve children’s health, and aligns with anticipatory
guidance and best practices provided by federal, state, and NPO entities and organizations
recognized as experts in the field of pediatric injury prevention (i.e., American Academy
of Pediatrics, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Health Resources &
Services Administration’s Maternal & Child Health Bureau, Safe Kids Worldwide, American
Association of Poison Control Centers, etc.).
Tactic: Establishment of new, and expansion of existing, partnerships (or cooperative
agreements where appropriate) with Aurora Fire Department, Denver Public Health, TriCounty Health Department, and additional entities/organizations serving families residing in
targeted neighborhoods.
Tactic: Provide capacity-building efforts, including training and continuing education
opportunities, that align with the Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention
developed by Safe States Alliance and the Society for the Advancement of Violence
and Injury Research (http://www.safestates.org/page/CoreCompetencies#Core%20
Competencies%20for%20Injury%20and%20Violence%20Prevention).
Tactic: Generate alignment with state and national injury prevention strategic plans
developed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Injury, Suicide
and Violence Prevention Unit, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Title V
Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Objectives, and the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control.
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