The links below contained detailed information for the upcoming 2017 Safe States Alliance Annual Meeting, taking place September 12-14, 2017 in Aurora, Colorado.
Please note:
- A total of five concurrent sessions will take place during the Annual Meeting, and there will be up to five breakouts occurring simultaneously during each of those concurrent sessions. Within each breakout, there will be up to four presentations that take place.
- This online system does not allow us to embed the individual presentations within each breakout. Please note the session presentations listed under each Concurrent Breakout title for associated content.
- The on-site mobile app WILL embed these sessions for ease of use.
- A printable, detailed agenda can be found on the 2017 Annual Meeting website.
- If you have any questions, please contact info@safestates.org
- All session times and locations are tentative and subject to change. Safe States will continue to update these details as changes take place.
Colorado’s Approach to Evaluating Shared Risk and Protective Factors: Scaffolding for Future Growth
Learning Objectives
In this session, participants will:
- Learn about Colorado’s approach to evaluate a shared risk and protective factor approach to impacting violence and injuries.
- Come away with strategies and skills to use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program Shared Risk and Protective Measurement Toolkit to select indicators and data sources to answer evaluation questions related to shared risk and protective factors.
- Brainstorm ideas to leverage existing evaluations, data collection tools, and indicators that can be integrated in evaluation efforts for shared risk and protective factors.
Statement of Purpose
The Colorado Violence and Injury Prevention-Mental Health Promotion (VIP-MHP) Branch uses a strategic framework that prioritizes shared protective factors that impact multiple forms of violence and injury. Within the framework, prevention strategies are mapped to five protective factors: connectedness, positive social norms, good behavioral health, economic stability, and resilience. To operationalize the framework, Colorado is leveraging both state and federal funding to implement and evaluate activities that impact the protective factors.
Methods/Approach
Utilizing the strategic framework as a starting point, Colorado initiated an evaluation planning process to identify indicators and data sources to track progress towards reducing risk factors and promoting protective factors across multiple programs and projects. Evaluators used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program Shared Risk and Protective Measurement Toolkit to select indicators and data sources related to child maltreatment, intimate partner violence/sexual violence, motor vehicle crashes, and traumatic brain injuries. In addition, evaluators engaged program staff across the VIP-MHP Branch to integrate existing process and outcome evaluation efforts, such as Communities that Care and Sexual Violence Prevention Program, into the Branch-wide shared risk and protective factor evaluation plan.
Results
The Colorado shared risk and protective factor evaluation plan includes indicators and data sources to comprehensively answer evaluation questions about decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors associated with multiple forms of violence and injury. By involving evaluation stakeholders across and outside the VIP-MHP Branch, Colorado gained buy-in and commitment to successfully implement the evaluation plan, collect and analyze data from primary and secondary sources, and report on evaluation findings using intuitive data visualization and interactive dashboards.
Conclusions & Significance to the Field
Through its strategic framework, Colorado embraces a shared risk and protective factor approach to preventing violence and injury. The implementation of Colorado’s risk and protective factor evaluation plan provides an important opportunity to measure progress and results related to strategies seeking to impact shared factors. Violence and injury prevention practitioners can apply lessons learned by Colorado during the development and early implementation of the plan to identify indicators and data sources to evaluate shared risk and protective factor work in their states.
Presenters
Colleen Kapsimalis, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Biography
Ms. Colleen Kapsimalis, MPH is the Program Integration and Evaluation Unit Manager at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). In this role, she manages the legislatively mandated Child Fatality Prevention System to review and prevent child fatalities related to injury and violence at the state and local levels. In addition, Colleen oversees evaluation initiatives of the state health department related to the following topic areas: injury, suicide, violence, shared risk and protective factors, and prescription drug overdose. Prior to this position, Colleen completed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Prevention Service Fellowship during which she was assigned to CDPHE’s Epidemiology, Planning and Evaluation Branch. She obtained her Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University with a concentration in health promotion from the sociomedical sciences department.
Felice A Seigneur, MPH, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Biography
Ms. Felice Seigneur, MPH, is a Violence and Injury Prevention Evaluator with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Felice oversees the state’s evaluation contract for the Communities that Care program, a community driven prevention framework that is currently being implemented across the state. In addition, Felice works collaboratively on the Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Programming (CORE SVIPP) evaluation, a CDC funded project that measures statewide primary prevention activities related to prioritized violence and injury focus areas. Prior to joining CDPHE, she worked in mental health evaluation with an emphasis on the health and wellbeing of children and families in relation to trauma and resilience. She is particularly passionate about trauma-informed care, and utilizing community driven evaluation and program planning practices.