274591 Live Well, San Diego!: Living Safely

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 3:24 PM - 3:42 PM

Carey Riccitelli, MPH , County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, Escondido, CA
     
The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency has developed a strategic plan to accomplish the County's vision of healthy, safe and thriving communities called Live Well, San Diego!. It is comprised of 3 components focused on each of those areas; health, safety and thriving (self-sufficiency). This presentation will focus on the safety component of the plan called Living Safely, specifically the Health and Human Services Agency's role in safety and its collaboration with other County departments and community partners around safety.

Learning Areas:
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Identify why a local Health Department (or Health & Human Services Agency) would create a plan to address safety. Discuss development of Live Well, San Diego!: Living Safely including the experiences creating a plan, the agency's role in safety and lessons learned.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I'm a Community Health Program Specialist for the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) and have served in various community health promotion capacities for our Agency for the past eighteen years. I've responsible for key aspects of the development and implementation of San Diego County’s Live Well, San Diego! initiative, a 10-year vision for health and safety of the community, including the critical Living Safely component launching in October 2012.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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