NCJ Number
157495
Date Published
1995
Length
36 pages
Annotation
Following an overview of efforts to prevent childhood injury in Hawaii, this report presents goals, objectives, and activities for the year 2000 in a plan to prevent childhood injuries.
Abstract
A summary of the Keiki Injury Prevention Initiative is followed by a profile of the Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition. The plan for preventing childhood injuries encompasses traffic safety, water safety, child abuse and neglect prevention, and youth violence and youth suicide prevention. One goal in the plan to prevent child abuse and neglect is to establish uniform data collection for intentional child injury and death that includes rates of neglect, intentional injury, and homicide caused by household or family members and the rate of recidivism among abusers. Another goal is to reduce the rate of homicide and child abuse and neglect of Hawaii's children by ensuring the availability of direct, primary prevention services for families. Other goals are to decrease child-abuse-and-neglect injuries for children ages 0 through 4 through education of the general public, as well as to expand the capacity of providers to detect and report at-risk and abused and neglected children. One of the goals for preventing youth violence and suicide is to establish a uniform data-collection system for youth violence and suicide to obtain information from schools, hospitals, physicians, police emergency medical systems, and others who deal with childhood injury. A second goal is to reduce injury and death due to violence for children ages 5-18 by educating the community about youth violence and suicide. Other goals are to promote the availability of coordinated, comprehensive violence-prevention programs in schools, as well as support programs and policies that enhance violence and suicide prevention and intervention. Objectives and activities are outlined for each goal. Plans for evaluating progress under the plan are summarized. A 21-item bibliography