Forging New Frontiers:
The Road to Best Practices in Injury Prevention
The 14th Annual Conference of The Injury Free Coalition for Kids
and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
November 29 to December 1, 2009
This year's conference will be jointly sponsored by the Injury Free Coalition for Kids® and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The main support for this conference is conference registration fees and additional support from Little Tikes and SofSurfaces. For fourteen years, members of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, located in Level I Trauma Centers, have met to collaboratively address ways to prevent injuries in communities across the country. Forging New Frontiers, the annual conference of Injury Free Coalition for Kids®, has become a valuable meeting to foster collaborative research, develop best practices and address challenges in the field of injury prevention and epidemiology. This year, for the first time, the Conference will be opened to all who are interested in the development of best practices in the field of injury prevention.
The attendees are principal investigators (physicians), program coordinators (nurses, health educators, social workers, community leaders and researchers). The conference is designed to focus on ways to build best practice injury prevention programs that have sustainability and longevity. It will examine resources for effective interventions and programs. Some specific areas to be explored include: Population and Community Injury Prevention; Car Passenger Safety Initiatives; Evaluation of Programmatic Impact; Working with Limited English Proficiency Population; and, Increasing Public Awareness and the Effective Dissemination of Injury Prevention Information. Those in attendance will experience and explore intervention techniques, learn about the most current injury prevention research, and share the latest advocacy efforts.
The objectives of the 2009 Annual Conference are to provide participants with an opportunity to:
- Learn about designing, planning and building healthy communities.
- Share and explore challenges and successes in community-based injury prevention programming with a goal of helping other institutions develop and improve injury prevention programs.
- Share information on innovative injury prevention programs promoting best practices.
- Describe how institutions, particularly trauma systems can develop and evaluate community-based injury prevention programs.
- Identify opportunities for cross site projects and research as well as opportunities to learn more about translating research into practice in minority and resource-limited communities.
- Provides Injury Free members with the opportunity to revitalize their spirit, creative energies and stamina in order to continue to innovate and sustain healthy communities.
In the spirit of recognizing our many successes and challenges, and meeting our common goals and needs, we invite you to join us for this exciting national conference that is focusing on the road to best practices in the field of injury prevention.
Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and the Injury Free Coalition for Kids. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement
The College of Physicians and Surgeons designates this educational activity for a maximum of 10.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward recertification requirements. The American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) and The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.