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North Carolina Injury and Violence Prevention Conference

  • Wednesday, May 09, 2012 (8:00AM - 4:00PM)
  • Free
  • Chapel Hill, NC

North Carolina Injury and Violence Prevention Conference

Collaboration for an Injury Free NC

May 9, 2012

Chapel Hill, North Carolina


Register here.

 

Draft Agenda

8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:00 Opening Key Note: Larry Cohen of the Prevention Institute

10:00-10:30 Break: Networking and 10 Minutes of Tai Chi

10:30-11:45 Morning Breakout Sessions (choose one)

  • Policy: Laws and practices that make everyone safe. Perspectives on North Carolina injury prevention policies, and how you can affect change in your community.
  • Injury Data and Surveillance: What are the biggest causes of injury and violence in North Carolina? Where can you find injury data? Where can you find local data?
  • Evidence-Based Best Practices: Making sure the work you do is really saving lives!

11:45-12:55 Networking Lunch (Provided)

1:00-2:15 Afternoon Breakout Sessions (choose one):

  • These sessions focus on a specific injury subject and will be covered broadly from defining the issues, presenting the epi burden in NC, effective/promising programs in NC, and policy considerations/recommendations.
  • Motor Vehicle Crashes: addressing the leading cause of death for North Carolinians in their first four decades of life with prevention programs that work.
  • Prescription Drug Poisonings: The epidemic of unintentinoal overdose and what is being done to address it.
  • Bike/Pedestrian injury prevention: complete streets and injury prevention

 

2:15-2:45 Break

2:45-4:00 Closing Plenary: American Trauma Society Presentations by 2011 ATS grantees; Workforce development training kickoff and Safe Kids highlights

4:00-4:15 Raffle and Adjourn