MCW Comprehensive Injury Center - Community Engagement
MCW Comprehensive Injury Center - Community Engagement
Community engagement and outreach is a core tenet and a strength of the CIC’s work. Through our community outreach work, we strive to maintain, develop, and foster model partnerships for the health and safety of populations at greatest risk for injury disparities. These collaborations help us facilitate, translate, and disseminate evidence-based injury prevention and control programs and policies. By working closely with the communities we serve, our work has a greater impact and reaches those who can most benefit from it.
Outreach Goals
- Develop a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to apply community knowledge and expertise across all aspects of the CIC.
- Disseminate research findings and share injury data broadly to support injury prevention and control policies and strategies that target and reduce injury disparities.
- Provide technical assistance (TA) and research assistance (RA) to communities vulnerable to injury disparities across the state.
- Leverage the data and surveillance capabilities of the CIC to further support/inform/evaluate efforts of reducing injury disparities.
- Disseminate evidence-informed interventions to address injury disparities.
Community Advisory Board (CAB)
The CIC’s CAB consists of community members representative of populations in Wisconsin who experience injury-related health disparities or are at risk for health disparities related to injury. Members reside in municipalities across the state who have the highest burden of suicide, gun violence, opioid overdose, and traumatic brain injury as determined by the Wisconsin county health rankings. The goals of the CAB are:
- Provide CAB members the opportunities to gain skills in injury prevention, research, and evaluation of injury prevention programming
- Inform CIC of community values and norms
- Share communities’ unique history
- Provide accurate information about communities
- Guide the goals and activities of the CIC based on community priorities
- Share ideas, perspectives, and opinions about programming and dissemination of findings
Current Community Engagement Projects
City of Milwaukee Suicide Review Commission
City of Milwaukee Suicide Review Commission
The CIC convenes community partners to review suicides that occur among residents of the City of Milwaukee with a goal of providing information that can be used to inform suicide prevention activities.
City of Milwaukee Suicide Review Commission Postvention
Postvention
Postvention is a collaborative approach to support individuals who have experienced a loss due to suicide. The MKE L.O.S.S. Postvention Program is based in the CIC and conducts active outreach to individuals who have experienced a suicide loss in Milwaukee County to connect them with needed resources and supports.
Postvention Community Academic Partnerships
Community Academic Partnerships
The CIC has fostered a number of community-academic partnerships during its existence. Read some of the stories from CIC projects on the Stories from the Field page.
Community Academic Partnerships 414 LIFE
414 LIFE
414 LIFE is a violence prevention program that is a program of the City of Milwaukee Office of Community Wellness and Safety. Guided by the understanding that gun violence is a public health issue, the mission of 414 LIFE is to interrupt and reduce retaliatory gun violence using culturally centered disease control and behavior change methods.
414 LIFE Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project (WisAPP)
Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project (WisAPP)
WisAPP supports local elected leaders, public health professionals, and others as they identify local alcohol-related issues and implement policies to address them.
Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project Overdose Public Health and Safety Team (OD-PHAST)
Overdose Public Health and Safety Team (OD-PHAST)
The OD-PHAST team is focused on expanding the delivery and analysis of near real-time data between multiple public health and public safety partners and utilizing both aggregate data and insights from case reviews to develop and implement strategies and recommendations for changes to reduce the likelihood of future overdose incidents.
OD-PHAST on Division of Data Analytics and Informatics Violence Response Public Health and Safety Team (VR-PHAST)
Violence Response Public Health and Safety Team (VR-PHAST)
The VR-PHAST team coordinates a unified, multi-sector public health and safety response to reduce the impact of firearm violence and homicides on individuals, families, and the community in collaboration with partners across Milwaukee County.
VR-PHAST on the Division of Data Analytics and Informatics The Cardiff Model
The Cardiff Model
The Cardiff Model works to provide community stakeholders and public health a voice in policing and to offer partners an opportunity to address violence as a public health issue to decrease violence in communities.
The Cardiff Model