Virginia Department of Health

Updated: 28-Mar-2006

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Strategic Plan

Virginia Injury Community Planning Group

Goals

Goal 1: Strengthen state and community level infrastructure, partnerships and competencies for injury prevention

Goal 2: Collaboratively develop a Virginia injury prevention and control plan

Goal 3: Collaborate with ICPG to market the vision and values of the Integrated Core Injury Prevention and Control Program

Goal 4: Improve the use of injury data and other critical competencies of injury prevention and control by practitioners in the Commonwealth

Goal 5: Collaboratively coordinate and implement data-driven state and community level injury prevention activities in Virginia

Timeline

Core Components of State Injury Programs
Year 1	Years 2-4	Year 5
Determine the burden and develop a plan of action	- Conduct prevention interventions at multiple levels - Provide technical support and training - Work with communities for policy change	Evaluate and improve programs
-Determine the scope and magnitude of the State's injury burden. -Determine the incidence, causes, and circumstances of fatal and non-fatal Injuries by collecting and analyzing injury data. -Develop a strategic plan	-Design, implement and evaluate interventions at multiple levels -Blend different types of behavior change strategies: Educational Environmental Engineering Enforcement *Policy -Collaborate with others -Ensure awareness of proven injury prevention interventions -Encourage the use of best practices - Enable program partners and organizations to design, implement, and evaluate their own injury prevention plan -Affect public policy through collaboration with community Leaders to make the community safer	-Build a solid infrastructure for injury prevention programs -Evaluate the past 5 years -Revise the plan for the next five years