Mission and Goals

Mission:

To reduce injury- and violence-related morbidity and mortality by developing, promoting, evaluating and disseminating injury and violence prevention programs for emergency health care professionals and the community

Goals:

• Develop, evaluate, and disseminate high quality education programs enabling emergency health care professionals to gain competency in injury and/or violence prevention
• Develop, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based prevention interventions to educate health care professionals and the general public on ways to reduce injury and violence
• Improve public health and safety through advocacy and reinforcement of injury and violence prevention policies
• Integrate injury and violence prevention into emergency health care by providing risk assessment and program management tools for use in emergency health care settings and the community
• Increase collaborative efforts at the local, state, and national level to promote adoption and implementation of injury and violence prevention programs and policies