Topic: Motor vehicle and/or child passenger safety

Changing Broken Systems – Reimagining the Enforcement of Traffic Safety

Overview:

For decades, injury prevention professionals have categorized prevention strategies into what has often been called the “E’s of Prevention,” with “enforcement” being a key component of those strategies. However, heightened news coverage of high-profile deaths of Black people from excessive use of police force have highlighted disparate policing and traffic stops as a public health issue. As a result, many cities are re-imagining the role of law enforcement, what behaviors should merit a traffic stop, and investing in more upstream equitable infrastructure to create safer and more just systems. Change is hard and often met with resistance. Join us on March 3 for a discussion on how to actively engage with law enforcement to collaborate on transformative change.

Presenters:

Join us for a panel discussion featuring presenters from the Safe States Annual Conference 2021 session where it began.

 

Chief Harold Medlock, Jr.
Retired Chief of Police
Fayetteville, NC Police Department

 

Ken Barone
Associate Director
Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy
University of Connecticut Department of Public Safety

 

Leah Shahum
Founder and Director
Vision Zero Network

 

Facilitator:
Ashley Lamar
Trauma Injury Prevention Specialist
JPS Health Network

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Continuing Education:

This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate in Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.0 CPH Recertification Credit.

 

​Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH).

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Training Instructions:

To complete this training, you will need to:

​1. Participate in the training by accessing the Recorded Webinar

2. Complete the Evaluation

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If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Transforming Child Passenger Safety through use of the National Digital Car Seat Check Form

Overview:

The National Digital Car Seat Check Form is transforming the way child passenger safety technicians record, track, and retrieve seat check data. Learn how this free resource is being used in the field to collect data and monitor trends, including the newly released app. This presentation will provide you with a high-level overview of the use of the national digital car seat check form, discuss innovative ways data collection is enhancing child passenger safety programs, and how experts in the field have introduced the use of electronic data collection to further enhance their programming efforts.

 

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this webinar, participants will understand:

  • How to use the digital car seat check form at events and in their work
  • How data from the digital car seat check form is being incorporated into child passenger safety programs.

 

Presenters:

  • Jennifer Booge, National Digital Car Seat Check Form – Field Training
  • Joe Powell, TN Tech BusinessMedia Center/iCube

 

Continuing education credits are NOT offered for this training. 

 

Training Instructions
 To complete this training, you will need to:  

  1. Participate in the training by accessing the Recorded Webinar  
  2. View Powerpoint slides: NDCF FAQ Webinar- General.final
  3. Create your Certificate of Completion.          

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

New Recommendations: Strategies to Address Shared Risk and Protective Factors for Driver Safety

OVERVIEW

Given the scarcity of resources and competing issues in the public health injury prevention and traffic safety communities, practitioners can have the biggest impact by collaboratively applying evidence-based strategies to traffic safety challenges that also address shared risk or protective factors. Safe States convened a Behavioral Health Workgroup comprised of key subject matter experts from federal, state, and local agencies, national organizations, and the research community. The Workgroup contributed to the development of recommendations for applying a shared risk and protective factors approach to reduce risky driving behavior, identifying interventions that can address risk and protective factors to prevent motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities, and utilizing data resources to measure the impact of strategies.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

By the end of his webinar, participants will be able to:

1-Understand the process involved in collaborating across public health, traffic safety, and research communities

2-Identify key recommendations for: applying the shared risk and protective factors approach to reduce risky driving behavior, identifying interventions that can address these risk and protective factors to prevent motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities, and utilizing data resources to measure the impact of these strategies

3-Apply public health concepts to traffic safety initiatives to reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities,

4 -Use the new recommendations to apply a shared risk and protective factors approach to driver safety initiatives, with an emphasis on implementing behavior change interventions or strategies in local communities

 

Presenter:

Ina I. Robinson, Safe States Alliance

 

Participate in the training by accessing the recorded webinar:
http://media.safestates.org/Strategies_to_Address_SRPF_for_Driver_Safety.mp4

 

Continuing Education

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate of Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.0 CPH Recertification Credit. 

 

*Complete the online evaluation which includes questions for you to report CPH or CHES continuing education credits for this training. Please note, you must complete this online evaluation and its CPH and/or CHES questions in order for Safe States to submit your CPH and/or CHES credits to the respective CEU providers. 

 

*Create your certificate of completion.

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Injury and Violence Prevention: Gaining Momentum in 2016

The Safe States Alliance and the South to Southwest Injury Prevention Network present an inspiring webinar about why the work we do in injury and violence prevention is important, relevant, and exciting. Whether you are new to the field or a seasoned veteran, this is a great opportunity to find inspiration and motivation for your work. 

 

Our speaker, Dr. David Hemenway, Professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, and author of the book, While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention, provides an in-depth overview of how the public health science behind injury prevention has enabled our field to accomplish great things in the past, and help us understand the possibilities for the future. This important presentation will help ground your work in a broader context, and help you understand the wider field of injury prevention.

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

Smart Growth & Community Design Part 1: Preventing Injury & Chronic Disease via Smart Growth Policy

This webinar is the first in a two-part Smart Growth & Community Design series that focuses on the relationship between injury and chronic disease prevention, Smart Growth, and community design.

 

During this webinar, participants learn about Smart Growth policies and the proactive steps that public health practitioners can take to influence transportation and land-use decisions. Participants also learn additional strategies they can use to ensure that public health is a primary consideration in community design. The featured speaker is Mary Lee, a practicing attorney and expert on housing, land-use, and community economic development. Ms. Lee is the Associate Director for PolicyLink, a non-profit national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity.

 

Public Health, Transportation & Land Use: Institutionalizing Partnerships & Practices

A powerful connection exists between community health and transportation and land use decisions. These decisions impact many critical issues, including safety, physical activity, environmental quality, equity, and accessibility. Professionals from all fields are embracing strategic partnerships to ensure that health is fully integrated into transportation and land use policies. However, to guarantee the long-term sustainability of these partnerships, public health agencies must institutionalize the ways in which they collaborate, both internally and with partner organizations.

 

This two-part workshop will provide examples of how state and local public health departments can facilitate successful and enduring partnerships with transportation and land use agencies. During Part I,hear from diverse presenters and be introduced to new resources that can help professionals forge and sustain cross-agency partnerships. During Part II, listen to roundtable discussions that identify strategies for creating strong, lasting partnerships between public health, transportation, and land use agencies.

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

Policy Approaches to Injury Prevention: Successes & Strategies

The theme for the 2010 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Policy Approaches to Injury & Violence Prevention.” The four webinars in this series are Webinar 1: Policies to Prevent Bullying in Schools; Webinar 2: Policies to Promote Injury-Free, Livable Communities; Webinar 3: State & National Policies to Promote Motor Vehicle Safety; Webinar 4: Policy Approaches to Injury Prevention:  Successes, Strategies, & the ASTHO Presidential Challenge.

 

Webinar 4 features three key leaders who are actively involved in national efforts to develop and support injury and violence prevention policies. The webcast offers valuable information about ASTHO’s 2009-2010 Presidential Challenge, which is designed to inspire state health officials to “study the data, assess their state, and consider adopting at least one policy strategy that could lessen the burden of preventable injury and death in their home state.” Participants also learned about past and present policy successes, as well as strategies for furthering these efforts in a variety of injury and violence prevention areas. Finally, participants were provided with updates from NCIPC regarding ongoing policy development activities being spearheaded by states and communities across the country.

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

 

The video in this self-study may not work properly as appropriate software may no longer be available to support it – causing an error stating “Missing codec – This item was encoded in a format that’s not supported”. Audio and Powerpoint slides are still available and meet the requirements for receiving CHES and CPH credits. If you experience issues, please direct questions to info@safestates.org.