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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Injury and Violence Prevention Programs Posters
3149.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Poster
Injury and Violence Prevention Programs Posters
Many injury and violence prevention programs have made great strides in reducing the burden of injury. This poster session will highlight some of the noteworthy prevention programs. In particular it will spotlight the CeaseFire violence prevention program which started in Chicago. This program has demonstrated great results in reducing violence. In fact, there has been a 25% decrease in homicides in Chicago last year due in part to their program. Other injury prevention programs that will be highlighted include prevention programs for suicide, falls in the elderly, and childhood and teenage injury prevention efforts.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this session the participants should be able to 1. describe the essential components of the CeaseFire program as well as identify ways to implement such a program; 2. describe elements of a successful educational intervention; and 3. recognize the policy implications of community-based injury prevention efforts.
Board 1Suicide Prevention Planning in the States: Lessons Learned
Stuart Berlow, MPP, MHSA
Board 2Evaluation of Remembering When: A fire and fall prevention program for older adults
Judith M. Ottoson, EdD, MPH, Mark D. Rivera, PhD, Monica LaBelle Oliver, MPA
Board 3Cost benefit analysis fact sheets for injury prevention interventions
Monique A. Sheppard, PhD, Ted R. Miller, PhD, Douglas L. Hill, PhD, Elizabeth A. Langston
Board 4Integrating injury prevention into the Head Start curriculum: Putting prevention into practice
Anita Brentley, BA, MEd, Sheryl Allen, MD, Crystal Ricketts, PhD, Victor F. Garcia, MD, Rebeccah Brown, MD, Richard Falcone, MD
Board 5CeaseFire Chicago: Reducing Shootings and Killings by a Public Health Approach
Norman L. Kerr, Elena D. Quintana, PhD, Tim Metzger, MUPP, Gary Slutkin, MD
Board 6Violence Prevention: The Confluence of Critical Events Lowering Chicago's Homicide Rate in 2004
Charlie Ransford, MA, Rachel Johnston, Elena D. Quintana, PhD, Gary Slutkin, MD
Board 7Role of Two Categories of Outreach Workers in High-risk Conflict Mediation to Stop Shootings and Killings
Tio Hardiman, Tim Metzger, MUPP, Gary Slutkin, MD
Board 8Characteristics of Outreach to the Highest Risk: Violence Prevention in Chicago
Anthony Smith, Brent Decker, MPH, Gary Slutkin, MD
Board 9Violence Intervention: The Role of Outreach Workers with Felony Convictions in Reaching the Highest Risk
Elena D. Quintana, PhD, Tio Hardiman, Candice Kane, PhD, Gary Slutkin, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
Endorsed by:Academic Public Health Caucus; Epidemiology; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA