Prevention
The Child Injury Prevention Framework has been in development from 2005 to 2008, but it is now completed and ready for your review. It was designed in partnership with the Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel, Emory University and the Division of Public Health. The Framework is created as a guide for state and local agencies to consider how best to use their resources - or pool their resources - to address the issue of child injury and fatality prevention. The Framework also lists several evidence-based strategies addressing several common mechanisms of injury and the developmental stages of childhood. These proven prevention strategies can be used to shape your next state or local fatality prevention project. Click HERE to view or print the Framework.
Click Here to view the list of prevention plans being researched or developed by CFR committees. If your committee prevention plan is not listed on this page and you would like to add it, or you would like to update it to reflect new changes, please contact the office (gacfr@dhr.state.ga.us)
CFR MEMBERS! We would like to help you start a child fatality prevention program, but we need to know more about your community's needs. Click HERE for the Prevention Readiness Assessment. After you complete the short survey, we will contact you to help you start or strengthen a program in your community that helps keep kids safe!"
The ultimate purpose of child fatality review is to prevent future child deaths. The Office of Child Fatality Review offers assistance by providing prevention resources to local committees. CFR Committees are also provided training opportunities aimed at educating members on prevention strategies that range from promoting placing a stop sign at a dangerous intersection, to more complex intervention like intensive home visitation programs for parents at high-risk for abusing or neglecting their children. Please contact our office for information on prevention resources. The Office of Child Fatality Review also provides a newsletter quarterly to fatality review members on specific causes of death and statewide prevention efforts. The Office of Child Fatality Review utilizes the following agencies as resources for prevention efforts:
National Organizations
- National SAFE KIDS
- US Health and Human Services Department
- US Department of Justice - Juvenile Crime Prevention Department
- SIDS National Clearinghouse - McLean, Virginia
- National Safety Council
- National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, 1-800-CHILDREN
- Annie B. Casey Foundation
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Atlanta, Georgia
- National Institute for Mental Health
- For Love of Children (FLOC)
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- American Association of Suicidology
State Organizations
- Prevent Child Abuse Georgia
- Georgia Region, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health
Professional Associations
- Georgia Hospital Association
- American Bar Association's Center on Children and the Law
- American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
- Child Welfare League of America
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