On October 20, 2015, the Skills and Knowledge for Injury Prevention Partners (SKIPP) Project hosted its first day-long workshop for Series 1 of a CORE capacity-building training program for injury and violence prevention practitioners serving children and youth in Wake County.
The Day 1 workshop, entitled Public Health Approach, included sessions that addressed: 1) the burden of childhood injuries and violence; 2) prevention levels (primary, secondary and tertiary); 3) the Socio-Ecological Model; 4) risk and protective factors; and 5) a review of milestones in the evolution of the injury and violence prevention field. Twenty-seven participants from 19 different organizations are participating in the first SKIPP CORE series. Days 2-5 of the series will be held on December 8, 2015 and January 27, March 9, and April 20, 2016. A second SKIPP CORE series will be offered in 2017.
Other SKIPP Project activities in 2016 will include an annual Networking Event for childhood injury and violence prevention stakeholders (May/June), as well as the launch of a SKIPP ENHANCED workshop series intended for injury and violence prevention practitioner teams to apply advanced injury and violence prevention concepts and skills to real-world projects (Summer).
To learn more about the project, conducted with funding from the John Rex Endowment by a team from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Department of Health Behavior (Dr. Carolyn Crump, Robert J. Letourneau, Jim Emery, and Diana Urlaub), please visit the SKIPP Project website.