Planning ChIPP
Why plan?
The planning phase of the Child Injury Prevention Project (ChIPP) was important because it was an opportunity to:
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engage key stakeholders
(both for the statewide inter-sectoral Reference Group and at a local level) initially through one on one liaison and group discussions. Given the recognition that no one agency can address child injury prevention alone, there is a need for shared responsibility based on partnerships. Local key stakeholders that were involved with ChIPP included:
- Local Government
- Hospital staff
- Community Health staff
- Local Ambulance staff
- Local Fire and Rescue staff
- Department of Communities
- Office of Fair Trading
- Kidsafe
- Farmsafe
- Divisions of General Practice
- Childcare providers
- Department of Housing
- Queensland Police Services
- Queensland Transport
- Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit
- Local Indigenous elders etc.
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plan for evaluation
through identification of key performance indicators and key evaluation questions based on the Project Goal of "reducing injury associated morbidity and mortality in the 0-4 year age range in two rural or remote communities in Queensland over three to five years" by using the Objectives of:
- Developing an inter-sectoral injury prevention strategy targeting physical and social environments that are associated with the most common causes of injury for Queensland children in rural and remote areas
- Increasing the capacity of local Working groups to address local injury issues,
- Implementing sustainable strategies,
- Undertaking a trial of the injury prevention strategy in specific rural or remote communities to reduce the rural/urban differences,
- Measuring the effect of the interventions and any background trends, and
- Making recommendations to the ChIPP Reference Group for future implementation.
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plan for sustainability
(of impacts and outcomes, not of the Project itself) from the outset through cultivating ownership and local investment in strategic passive strategies.
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Results
These action steps ensured:
Moving forward
In order to progress from planning to implementation the following critical elements (some based on hindsight) were required:
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development of a comprehensive project plan that identified a clear, agreed and realistic goal, as well as defined how this goal was to be achieved highlighting roles and responsibilities, resources required etc.
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facilitation of a collaborative response led by a dedicated Project Officer within each community that was supported by a local working group of key stakeholders. This required a balance to be struck between reliance/dependence on the Project Officer and shared responsibility amongst local key stakeholders for the development, implementation and evaluation of Project strategies.
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development of a communication strategy via the Project Officers between the two project sites/communities to promote learning through sharing and also between each project site/community and the statewide inter-sectoral Reference Group and Project sponsors.
A timeline
A summary of the key events around the development of the ChIPP is available.
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