Ontario Injury Spotlight

2009

March - April 2009
This issue features: an email campaign urging passage of a bill that would mandate helmet standards; a sneak peek into Learning Series topics for the next few months; an invitation to arrange for workshops in your region; research on child injuries; a variety of new resources; and a note on the delayed national conference.

January – February 2009
This issue features highlights from the Ontario Injury Prevention Conference; new curricula offered in Toronto; information on a popular child safety newsletter in Middlesex-London; a campaign targeting parents of young children in Kingston; an update on the new health standards; and information on Safe Kids Week 2009.

2008

November - December 2008
This issue features keynote speakers and program highlights for the Ontario Injury Prevention Conference 2008; a French-language session of the Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum; research on speeding; an ATV campaign from the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit; the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation’s work with the Ontario Alliance for Action on Brain Injury to bring attention to the issue of acquired brain injuries; and the outcome of a pool fencing motion in Ottawa.

September - October 2008
This issue features plans for French language services at the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre; a preview of the Ontario Injury Prevention Conference 2008; a new Buckle Up campaign from a North-Bay based injury prevention group; new data analyses from CHIRPP and a Statistics Canada report on vehicle crashes; and the start to a charter of violence prevention.

July - August 2008
This issue features the evaluation of a helmet program in Hamilton; a follow-up on pool fencing initiatives from Safe Kids Canada; a wrap-up of the Aging Driver Mobility Forum; a research report on alcohol sales and a new youth traffic resource; news on upcoming SMARTRISK Learning Series and Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum sessions and the departure from SMARTRISK of founder Dr. Robert Conn.

May - June 2008
This issue features Spotlight evaluation results; an overview of the May SMARTRISK Learning Series sessions; details of an upcoming falls prevention symposium; research reports on healthy children and healthy youth and new reports from CIHI; a new suicide prevention resource; and a report on the progress of Safe Communities’ new Ontario strategy.

March - April 2008
This issue features an introduction to the SMARTRISK Learning Series videos; London’s new Shaken Baby Syndrome program; a seatbelt campaign featuring a Canadian Forces Snowbird; new research on snowmobiling, child injury and drivers with medical conditions; a tobogganing paper from ThinkFirst; and a request to evaluate the Ontario Injury Spotlight.

January – February 2008
This issue features: news from the Resource Centre, including detailed results of the needs/capacity survey and an update on SMARTRISK Learning Series topics; news from the field, including the Think and Drive social marketing campaign from Niagara Region and the Ontario Transportation Ministry’s 95% Challenge; a research report from the Alcohol Policy Network on alcohol and youth trends; partner news from Safe Kids Canada and highlights from the Ontario Injury Compass

2007

November-December 2007
This issue introduces a new format, look and name to our newsletter (formerly Ontario Stakeholders News) for Ontario injury prevention practitioners. Features include: news from the Resource Centre, including results of the needs and capacity survey, the launch of a discussion board Forum on the website and an update on the SMARTRISK Learning Series; news from the field, including falls resources from Grey Bruce and a child injury campaign from Toronto and York; and research, partner news and highlights from the Ontario Injury Compass.

Ontario Stakeholders News

September - October 2007
This issue features the launch of Ontario’s injury prevention strategy, free training opportunities available from the Resource Centre, an evaluation of Algoma’s Creating Safer Homes Project and Toronto’s One on One Mentoring project.

July - August 2007:
This issue features highlights of the 2007 Ontario Injury Prevention Conference and evaluations by delegates, a recent cross-Canada survey of the use of child restraints in vehicles, details of an ATV campaign launched in Mattawa, Ont., and information on the upcoming Not By Accident 2007 conference in London, Ont.

May - June 2007:
Highlights of the OSN evaluation; update on the 2007 Ontario Injury Prevention Conference; the Hold, Follow, Watch program in Waterloo Region; the new report, Injuries among Seniors in Ontario; information about how to get involved in contributing to OSN.

March - April 2007
This issue features the new Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre website, activities in the north around Brain Injury Awareness Week and announcements about new sessions of the Canadian Injury Prevention and Control Curriculum, the annual Easter Region Injury Network Education Day and a falls prevention symposium in York Region.

January - February 2007
This issue features a new campaign from Central Hastings on safe ATV riding and another from North Simcoe addressing impaired riding on recreational vehicles, insight into why a statistical report got major media play and an invitation to evaluate the Ontario Stakeholders News.

November - December 2006
This issue features Toronto Public Health’s falls campaign, information on $20,000 graduate scholarships, an invitation to consult with staff at the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre and a preview of the next Learning Series on building resiliency in high-risk youth.

September - October 2006
This issue features highlights of SMARTRISK’s The Economic Burden of Injury in Ontario report, an article on injury-prevention DVDs run in hospital emergency departments and information on ordering the Smart Moves toolkit.

July - August 2006
This issue features an article on barriers to participating in fall prevention programs, an update on the Canadian Injury Prevention and Control Curriculum offerings this fall and an invitation to help plan the SMARTRISK Learning Series.

May - June 2006
This issue features a study of London’s hospital injury prevention program, evaluation highlights from the Ontario Injury Prevention Conference 2006 and an announcement about media support available from the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre.

March - April 2006
This issue features an invitation to use the new Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre, an article on a new research project into recreational vehicles and alcohol and a feature on a bicycle safety campaign in Haldimand-Norfolk.

January - February 2006
This issue features the ICE campaign in Northern Ontario, an ATV peer-education campaign in West Nipissing and a medication clean-out campaign in Sudbury, adapted from one in Eastern Ontario.