OUTREACH

At the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, our mission is to reduce the impact of injury and violence on people’s lives. To do this, we must ensure that our research translates into practical programs that create safer communities. This is best accomplished by nurturing collaborations with community partners and organizations towards a common goal.

Center faculty are engaged in outreach activities both in the United States and abroad.   From research designed to evaluate the effectiveness of parent education programs to prevent child abuse, to increasing community awareness about the correct use of booster seats for toddlers, to designing safer roadways for pedestrian traffic in Ghana, our investigators are tackling some of society’s most difficult injury issues and problems.

Finding out "what works" in injury control is essential. Systematic review can clarify which programs are appropriate to implement on a broader scale, and which programs may be of greatest benefit to public health. To learn more about some of the Center’s successful outreach programs, visit the links below.

Regional

• Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Seattle

• Preventing Pediatric Window Falls

• Campaign to Promote Booster Seat Use in Targeted Communities

• Last Call: A Designated Driver and Safe Ride Home Program

National

• Alcohol Use and Trauma-Prevention through Screening & Brief Intervention

• Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)

International

• The World Report on Child Injury Prevention-An International Forum on the Health of Children

• Creating Safer Roads and Preventing Traffic Injuries in Ghana