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1. Identify and explain the roles of national, state and local level agencies and organizations that can serve as resources for prevention efforts.
2. Explain the role and benefits of collaboration in prevention efforts.
3. Identify types/examples of current and potential stakeholders/partners and their current prevention activities.
4. Describe how to identify and prioritize injury and violence problems.
5. Describe how to locate and evaluate the best sources of information (or "evidence") available on which to base intervention decisions.
6. Describe various levels where prevention activities can be focused (e.g. individual, institutional, community, public policy).
7. Demonstrate the use of a conceptual model (e.g. Haddon Matrix, social ecological model, etc.) for identifying intervention opportunities.
8. Provide examples of interventions that use education/behavior change, legislation/enforcement and technology/engineering to prevent injuries and/or violence. Describe how they can work together to create a comprehensive program.
9. For a given injury or violence problem, choose and justify an intervention based on 1) relevant data, 2) characteristics of the intended audience, 3) a conceptual model or theory (e.g. social ecological model, stages of change, etc.) and 4) evidence related to "best practice."
10. Design an implementation plan, to include a description of the intended audience, goals and objectives, proposed activities, evaluation component, timeline and resources.
11. Describe and understand how cultural, socio-economical, political, and physical environment factors may influence a prevention effort.