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SAFE Communities Project

The purpose of this grant is to recruit, develop, and maintain a community-based injury prevention coalition that will develop a strategic plan to reduce all injuries but will focus on motor vehicle injuries among residents of Santa Barbara County.

Motor vehicle related injuries continue to be the leading cause of death nationwide for children and adults up to thirty-four (34) years of age. In 1998, two thousand two hundred and fourteen (2,214) motor vehicle occupants were injured, and thirty-one (31) were killed in Santa Barbara County.

This project will develop and maintain a diverse, community based coalition which will research and review statistical data relating to all injuries and death, but will focus on motor vehicle related incidents, develop a community profile and a strategic plan to reduce injuries and deaths. The strategic plan will provide to our county a working document that will enable the injury prevention community to move forward in developing county a working document that will enable the injury prevention community to move forward in developing innovative prevention projects with a clearly defined focus.

Project objectives:

To develop and maintain a broad-based and diverse membership for a county-wide injury prevention Safe Communities Coalition throughout the grant.
To gather local injury data, conduct a community needs assessment and asset mapping for Santa Barbara County.
To create a community profile.
To foster community ownership of the Safe Communities concept and project.
To develop a strategic plan, which includes prevention strategies.
To market the strategic plan to the community-at-large and key decision-makers to promote action.
To develop an implementation proposal and submit to OTS or other sources for continued or future funding.

Injury Prevention Strategic Plan

Online version of the Injury Prevention Strategic Plan developed by the Safe Communities Coalition

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