Communities living injury free

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Our history

What is a Community Injury Prevention Programme?

Community Injury Prevention Programmes (CIPPs) are set up in order to reduce the number and severity of injuries to people in the area they cover. Auckland City Council's CIPP - Communities living injury free - covers the Auckland city territorial local authority area from Otahuhu in the south, to Avondale/Blockhouse Bay in the west. Communities living injury free focuses on unintentional injury.

Communities living injury free is based on the World Health Organisation's Safe Community criteria, which covers: participation, community context, interventions to reduce injury, evaluation, sustainability and external links - disseminating information on the programme and contributing to the overall network of safe communities.

Who is involved?

Communities Living Injury Free facilitates the Auckland City Injury Prevention Forum, which provides strategic level support and information on unintentional injury issues in Auckland city. Currently the Injury Prevention Forum comprises members from the following organisations:

Accident Compensation Corporation
Age Concern
Alcohol Healthwatch
Auckland City Council - Road Safety
Auckland Regional Public Health Service
Brain Injury Association
NZ Fire Service
Royal NZ Plunket Society Inc
Safekids
University of Auckland - Injury Prevention Information Centre
WaterSafe Auckland Inc

The aim of Communities living injury free is to eventually involve all of Auckland's diverse communities in raising awareness and reducing the amount and severity of injuries in the Auckland city area.

Objectives

In 2002 Auckland University's Injury Prevention Research Centre (IPRC) completed a report on the types of injury that occur in Auckland city, and who is most at risk. In addition, IPRC conducted 37 in-depth stakeholder interviews to obtain a range of perspectives on injury in the community.

Based on this information the communities living injury free PAG completed a vision, mission, and five-year strategic plan. These provide the direction for the programme and include some of the following broad-based objectives:

to promote a safety culture in Auckland city - putting safety into the heads, hearts, and hands of people who live, work, and play in Auckland city
to instigate, encourage, and develop collaborative working models
to build, maintain and enhance a comprehensive base of information about our communities, injury priorities, and best practice models for injury prevention
to collaboratively develop and implement effective injury prevention interventions in priority areas with the involvement of key stakeholders
to provide a leadership role in injury prevention issues within the Auckland city area
to work collaboratively with other agencies and communities to develop the capacity of Auckland city's injury prevention sector to respond effectively to current and emerging injury prevention issues.

Current programmes and activities

Working collaboratively with the injury prevention sector in the following areas:

Continued development of a new settler train the trainer programme and resource
Child car restraint projects
Whanau swim project
Footpaths are for people project - transition of project to NGO sector
Watch Out People about - pedestrian safety projects
Development of the regional driveway run-over resource
Input to the Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa/NZ (IPNANZ) as member of executive committee
Support of the Point Zero Five network.

Updated July 2008