The following are upcoming events.

Jan 16 & 17, 2012, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Skills for Health Promotion: An Introductory-level Workshop
Metro Hall, Toronto

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Registration is now open for a new session of the CFPC in Sudbury on January 19 and 20, 2012. Please click on the link below for information and to register.

CFPC in Sudbury - January 19 and 20

If you have any questions, contact Claude Meurehg at cmeurehg@smartrisk.ca or (416) 596-2705.

You can get all the details in the Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum section of our website.

Please check the Webinar section of our website for information on this upcoming webinar.

The FORUM will be easy to navigate with the use of the FORUM Participant Guide. Download the document

The FORUM is aimed at promoting collaboration, sharing of information, best practices, joint planning and priority setting among colleagues. Enjoy using the FORUM!

The March Compass (in PDF format) is now available. This issue addresses exposure to smoke, fire and flames

The Economic Burden of Injury in Canada, published in 2009, outlines the enormous costs of both intentional and unintentional injury and breaks the data down by province as well. See Canada’s injury burden.

Past issues of Ontario Injury Compass

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The Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre is dedicated to training Ontario practitioners to become certified facilitators for the Canadian Injury Prevention Curriculum. The Facilitator Training Program focuses on facilitator development: teaching future facilitators adult learning principles, presentation skills, training strategies and coaching skills.

E-mail: cmeurehg@smartrisk.ca.

The Catalogue of Best Practices is a listing of interventions that have been deemed to be best practices, by researchers or organizations that have conducted systematic reviews of the relevant literature. The Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre (OIPRC) has selected these based upon their adherence to a set of screening criteria developed by the Advisory Committee.

Asset building: Is it worth the risk?

Brain and Spinal Cord Injury in Sports and Recreation

Riding with a Whole New Respect…Promoting ATV Safety in your Community

Aboriginal Governance and Social Structure

The Psycho-social Implications of Ethnostress within Aboriginal Populations

For more videos see the past curricula.

For those who are not familiar with the field, we would recommend signing up for a session of the Canadian Injury Prevention Curriculum.

In the meantime, the Injury 101 slideshow is a brief presentation on the basics of Injury prevention.

The evaluation toolkit is designed specifically for use by the staff of injury prevention organizations. The purpose is to provide you with easy access to useful knowledge and resources that will help you to start planning and doing evaluations of your organization’s injury prevention programs, projects and other activities.

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From time to time the Resource Centre produces reports and other publications on specific issues related to injury in Ontario:

Injuries Among Seniors in Ontario

The Economic Burden of Injury in Ontario

Ontario Injury Compass provides an analysis of injury issues in Ontario.

Each report focuses on a single injury issue, providing Ontario hospitalization and emergency department data broken down by age, sex and region, along with prevention tips and a list of additional resources.

By signing up, you can automatically receive the reports, in PDF format, by e-mail each month.

To sign up, please send us an e-mail at compass
@oninjuryresources.ca.

If you have any questions or comments about Compass, or if you wish to unsubscribe from the mailing list, please forward your request to the above e-mail address.

Ontario Injury Spotlight (formerly Ontario Stakeholders News) is a free electronic newsletter for Ontario injury prevention practitioners. It is published six times annually through the support of the Government of Ontario.

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Information on past sessions is available:

Fall 2007 sessions

Winter 2007 sessions

Fall 2006 sessions

Past issues of Spotlight and Ontario Stakeholders News

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The initial catalogue features a comprehensive set of practices identified and reviewed by Ontario researchers with funding from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF). OIPRC has partnered with the ONF to abstract and web-enable these best practices from their initial four compendium volumes of best practices in neurotrauma prevention. Additional practices will be added to this catalogue in the coming months.