2017 Annual Meeting
September 12–14, 2017
Aurora, Colorado
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.
Developing Guidance to Support Implementation of Division of Violence Prevention’s Technical Package Strategies
Learning Objectives
In this session, participants will
Objective 1. Highlight potential solutions and ways to support states and local communities in implementing a comprehensive approach to prevent violence in its various forms
Objective 2. Define the aspects or elements of implementation that are important to consider
Objective 3. Discuss current challenges to implementation and potential solutions to those challenges
Statement of Purpose
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) recently released several technical packages which present core sets of strategies with the greatest potential to prevent violence. The goal of the technical packages is to provide guidance to help communities implement comprehensive strategies across the social ecology and prioritize a system-wide approach to reducing multiple types of violence. To support state and local partners in strategically planning, implementing, adapting, and evaluating evidence-informed violence prevention approaches, DVP is developing comprehensive implementation guidance to use with its technical packages.
Methods/Approach
The approaches in the technical packages were selected based on the best available evidence and ways to advance these strategies through policies, programs, and practices. Although the technical packages provide valuable information about prevention strategies practitioners should consider, they do not provide information about how these strategies should be implemented. The implementation guidance seeks to fill this gap and to help key stakeholders (e.g., health departments and violence prevention practitioners) strategically implement the technical packages.
Results
Health departments are a key audience for the implementation guidance given their critical role in supporting prevention efforts. The guidance walks through the overarching implementation process, from convening partners to evaluating prevention efforts. It also highlights similarities and cross-over between different approaches to prevent multiple types of violence. The implementation guidance is intended to move beyond guidance on one specific program, practice or policy in order to help health departments and their partners weave together a comprehensive approach to violence prevention. The authors developed a combination of narrative, worksheets, and real life examples to ensure the materials interactive and engaging.
Conclusions & Significance to the Field
In addition to describing the process of developing this implementation guidance, the presenters will also define the aspects of implementation that are important to consider and highlight potential solutions and ways to support state health departments and partners in implementing a comprehensive approach to prevent violence in its various forms. Finally, the presenters will facilitate a discussion about ways to ensure states are aware of the implementation guidance resources and what additional tools may be helpful in the future.
Presenters
Lindsey Barranco, PhD, CDC, NCIPC, Division of Violence Prevention
Biography
Dr. Lindsey Barranco is a Behavioral Scientist in the Prevention Practice and Translation Branch of the Division of Violence Prevention within NCIPC. She is on the Program Evaluation and Translation Team and works on a number of different projects related to supporting grantees with the implementation and evaluation of programs, practices and policy efforts across a range of violence prevention topics. .