Important Notice:
As of July 1st 2011, funding for OPHA’s Injury Prevention Initiative ended. Some components of this initiatives are now under the purview of the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre (OIPRC). For more information please visit OIPRC.
Impact
For nearly four years, OPHA facilitated opportunities for public health professionals and NGO’s to strategically move forward on injury prevention issues throughout the province.
The Injury Prevention Initiative (IPI) was established in 2007. The Managers' Injury Prevention Alliance was formed as a response to limited public health resources for injury prevention in the province of Ontario. With support from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, OPHA was committed to working with injury prevention managers to coordinate efforts, share resources, inform government priorities, and look for synergies within the injury prevention field to increase the profile of injury prevention across Ontario.
Other accomplishments included the production of helpful tools and resources, secretariat support to a variety of provincial injury prevention groups, assistance with the annual Violence Prevention Town Hall meetings, and hosting of the web-based Violence Prevention Programs database.
Links
- Siu Mee Cheng, Ontario Public Health Association
- Co-Chairs, Injury Prevention Managers’ Alliance:
Kerri Richards, Toronto Public Health
Loretta Bernard, York Region Health Services