Injury Prevention Initiative (IPI)
With support from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, OPHA manages the Injury Prevention Public Health Managers’ Alliance bringing together key stakeholder groups via teleconferences and in-person meetings to strategize and prioritize injury prevention initiatives within public health. Key objectives of this group include how to support Ontario’s Injury Prevention Strategy (released August 2007), and the Ontario Public Health Standards (released October 2008).
OPHA is a very active member on a variety of provincial injury committees and workgroups, facilitating their collaboration and strategic direction to further the impact of injury prevention programming.
Further, OPHA contributes to the Violence Prevention Workgroup as an active member and host of the online Violence Prevention Programs database.
Impact
OPHA facilitates opportunities for public health professionals and NGO’s to strategically move forward on injury prevention issues throughout the province.
Recent Accomplishments
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OPHA’s Injury Prevention Initiative successfully provided support to the Injury Prevention Managers’ Alliance in the planning and implementation of their June 2009 in-person meeting at the North York Memorial Hall. The purposes of this meeting included an update on Injury Prevention within the Ministry of Health Promotion, as well as group discussions on positive and helpful ways for the Alliance to work within the Ontario Public Health Standards, both within their individual health units and together as a group. OPHA is happy to support the Alliance again in the planning and implementation of another two meetings in October 2009 and February 2010.
OPHA’s Injury Prevention Initiative continues to support the Violence Prevention Workgroup by monitoring and maintaining the web-based Violence Prevention Programs database and contributing to provincial violence prevention work and coordination.