Dagan A Wright, MSPH, Department of Health Promotion and Education and Intermountain, University of Utah and Injury Control Research Center, 627 J Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, 801-694-5694, dagan.wright@hsc.utah.edu

The Intermountain Injury Control Research Center (IICRC) was contracted by the Utah Department of Health, Violence & Injury Prevention Program (VIPP), using community-based task force meetings to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for injury and violence prevention/interventions for Utah. This plan will be used to help with the coordination of resources and activities that would maximize constrained resources, minimize the duplication of prevention efforts, create a document anyone can read and find supporting agencies relating to specific action items, and increase social capital (both bonding and bridging) of the communities served. The task force meetings and strategic plan focused on the following areas: pedestrian and bicycle injuries and deaths, seatbelt use, child restraint use, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, and suicide. Healthy People 2010 objectives, additional databases and relevant studies/reports were incorporated for background information supporting the focus areas. The focus group process and document were organized around the resource agencies and associated interventions. Action items for the focus areas will be reported and used to demonstrate a plan that can actively be used by community members and agencies. The process from contacting of key community participants, facilitation and organization of the focus groups, creation of community action items, eliciting feedback from the community members on the action items, the final write-up, and dissemination of the plan will be presented. A unique approach of using software to manage community contacts and merging it into a publishable report will be shared.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Discuss action items and associated agencies and/or interventions associated with the focus areas of injury for the state of Utah.
• 2. Discuss Healthy People 2010 data sources along with upcoming data sources relating to injury objectives stated in Healthy People 2010 such as the National Violent Injury Surveillance System. Discuss on where we can improve on surveillance related to injury and related behaviors.
• 3. Describe and discuss the process of coordinating and organizing information obtained from the task force meetings (focus groups).
• 4. Discuss lessons learned and applied from gathering, organizing and presenting the community interventions relating to injury.
• 5. Describe the methods and software (Endnotes a reference database software, MindMapper a mind mapping software, along with Word and Publisher) used for the creation of action items to help group together resource agencies and interventions for a final plan or report.

Keywords: Injury Prevention, Community-Based Public Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.