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One of the keys to planning a successful program is conducting a needs assessment and tailoring strategies to meet the needs of your audience. There are a variety of resources that can be used when conducting a needs assessment.
SafetyLit
Effective injury prevention requires an understanding of the factors that contribute to injuries. The SafetyLit website provides abstracts of English language reports from researchers in more than 30 disciplines relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm. For more information, please visit SafetyLit.
The following is a list of other resources that can assist in the planning of a new program or the expansion of an existing program:
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources, The Community Tool Box
This section of the Community Tool Box website provides a comprehensive approach for performing a community assessment. - California Data Sources for Injury Surveillance, Research, and Prevention Activities, Center for Injury Prevention, Policy and Practice
This website provides a listing and explanation of California’s data sources for injury prevention programming and research. - Choosing Strategies to Promote Community Health and Development, The Community Tool Box
This section of the Community Tool Box website discusses how to bring about community change using community organizing, social action, and coalition building. - Conducting Needs Assessment Survey, The Community Tool Box
This section of the Community Tool Box website explains the purpose and process of conducting a needs assessment survey. - Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention
The core competencies outline essential skills and knowledge that are viewed as necessary professional skills to work in injury and violence prevention. - Developing Community Capacity, The W.K Kellogg Foundation and The Health Care Forum [pdf, 3.5MB*]
This guide uses "collaborative empowerment" as an approach to promote systemic societal changes. - Getting Issues on the Public Agenda, The Community Tool Box
This section of the Community Tool Box website explains the importance of communicating the consequences of your issue and provides suggestions on how to gain the public’s interest and support to address your issue. - Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention, Springer Publications
This handbook provides an in-depth look at injury and violence interventions that have been proven to work effectively with vulnerable populations across all stages of life. - HealthLinks Public Health Toolkit
This toolkit provides a listing of public health databases, resources, and directories. - Logic Models, Center for Civic Partnerships
This section of the Center for Civic Partnership website provides an in-depth discussion of the use of logic models and provides other online tools and how-to guides on logic models. - Searching the SafetyLit Database for Articles on Key Injury Prevention Topics, Center for Injury Prevention, Policy and Practice [pdf, 138KB*]
This tool provides a brief explanation of how to search the SafetyLit database. - Spectrum of Prevention
The Spectrum of Prevention is a framework that expands prevention efforts beyond education models by promoting a multifaceted range of activities for effective prevention.
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