Environmental street improvements and traffic calming measures are frequently provided on a first-come, first served basis to communities which are able to make effective demands, or even help with fund development. At the same time, injury statistics and mapping programs show the highest level of pedestrian injuries on mixed use streets, often in lower income neighborhoods which experience a wide assortment of health and safety problems and other stressors. As the City and County of San Francisco begins to address traffic calming, the Department of Public Health has begun a collaboration with two such communities, the Mission District and the Tenderloin, to provide community members with the information and skills to advocate for safer streets. Outcomes from interviews and focus groups will document how community participants interpret and respond to pedestrian injury data, and the successes and failures of this community capacity building effort.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to: 1. List 3 approaches to involving community residents in pedestrian injury prevention. 2. Recognize 3 barriers to effective community participation. 3. Describe 2 examples of how interpretation of data and geo-mapping can be used to facilitate the involvement of community residents
Keywords: Injury Prevention, Community Participation
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: employed by the San Francisco Department of Public Health
the Department is the recipient of a "SAFE COMMUNITIES" grant from the State Office of Traffic Safety (OTS)