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The Role of the CCCIP

CCCIP was established in 1998 following a consultation partially funded by Health Canada to look at injury issues in Canada.  It became evident at that meeting that a structure was needed to:

• Create consistency and reduce duplication in injury prevention programming and research initiatives;
• Enhance the ability of regions to learn from one another in areas such as best practice, evaluation, surveillance and research;
• Act as a conduit for input and a dissemination route from both the national and regional perspectives;
• Work collaboratively on injury prevention and control issues from a regional and provincial perspective; and,
• Support the development of a critical mass of injury prevention and control researchers, practitioners and stakeholders that together can make a significant impact on this issue.
• Influence the national perspective.

 

Terms of Reference of the CCCIP

 

Membership is drawn from Directors or Managers of injury prevention centres, national organizations with an injury prevention mandate, and provincial non-government organizations that have a broad mandate in injury across all populations and causes.  In the absence of such a provincial injury prevention organization, government representatives with such injury mandates would be approached when it was deemed advantageous for that province and the CCCIP.  The CCCIP would reserve the right to invite additional members according to the needs and mandates of the organization and the CCCIP.  Other interested parties (government or non-government) may be invited to participate as observers. Members must commit to ongoing involvement and attendance at meetings.

 

Officers

 

The officers of the CCCIP are a Chair, Co-chair and a Secretary-Treasurer.

 

Currently ACICR is Chair, ANIP is Co-chair and BCIRPU is Secretary-Treasurer.

 

CCCIP Operations

 

The CCCIP operates through the commitment of each member agency to support the time and expenses of its staff to do the work of the CCCIP.  The CCCIP has no operating budget.  Through its various funded projects or involvement in various national initiatives, it supports occasional face-to-face meetings but typically operates through monthly teleconference meetings supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada, e-mail communications, a listserv managed by SMARTRISK and a website managed by ACICR of the CCCIP members.

 

Decision Making

 

Decisions are based by consensus of the membership.

 

No official communication is distributed on behalf of CCCIP without prior agreement by each member. 

 

Reporting Accountability

 

Individual members are responsible for communicating with their respective provincial organizations and networks.

 

Meeting Tasks

 

The Chair typically fulfills the role of meeting chair and provides or appoints a recorder to draft meeting minutes.  In the event the Chair cannot serve to chair any particular meeting, the Co-Chair, Secretary-Treasurer or other Member will be approached to assume the duties.  Local member organizations assist in co-ordinating local arrangements for face-to-face meetings, as necessary. 

 

The Secretary-Treasurer ensures that the minutes are an accurate reflection of the meeting discussions and decisions. Prior to being distributed to the membership, the recorder will forward meeting minutes to the Secretary-Treasurer for final approval. The Secretary-Treasurer is also be responsible for the fiscal management of the CCCIP.

 

Communication

 

Approved meeting minutes are distributed to the membership by the recorder.  The Chair and Co-chair serve as official representatives of the CCCIP and are empowered to speak on behalf of the collaboration as appropriate.

 

Expenses

 

Members are responsible for any and all expenses related to their participation in CCCIP. As previously noted, face-to-face meetings are sometimes scheduled to coincide with other events when a number of members will be gathering for another purpose and time allows for a CCCIP meeting to be convened.

 

Revisions

 

The terms of reference will be reviewed and revised every two years in November, or more often as necessary.

 

More Information about the CCCIP:

 

Accomplishments to date

 

The CCCIP has supported the development of a critical mass of injury prevention and control stakeholders. 

 

Examples include:  

• The development of the Canadian Injury Prevention Curriculum (CIPC).  Funded through the Population Health Fund of Health Canada, the curriculum was launched in June of 2004.  This three-day training programme for health and other professionals conveys how to effectively develop, implement and evaluate injury prevention programmes.  It provides standardized training on the epidemiology of injury and on proven strategies for managing this health threat. Initially, twenty facilitators were trained to deliver the curriculum across the country.  Also, offered is the Canadian Injury Prevention Curriculum Facilitator Training Program which focuses on facilitator development. General information on the CIPC is also available. 
• The development of the Canadian Injury Research Network (CIRNet).  With limited funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), CIRNet developed a research needs paper that became a foundation for the work currently being undertaken with CIHR in developing injury as a multi institute strategic initiative and the development of C-AIR (Centres for Applied Injury Research).
• The movement towards biennial national conferences on injury prevention and control.  The CCCIP in partnership with the Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research held the first Canadian conference on injury in the fall of 2001.  Another member, Plan-it Safe, was the host of the second conference in Ottawa, sponsored by three national NGO’s – Safe Communities, Safe Kids Canada and SMARTRISK.  In November 2005, two other members – the Atlantic Network for Injury Prevention and the Government of Nova Scotia’s Office of Health Promotion Injury Prevention Coordinator co-hosted the third conference, sponsored by the original three partners along with a fourth – ThinkFirst Canada. 
• The coordination of eleven stakeholder consultations in nine provinces in 2003 as part of a movement toward the development of a national injury prevention strategy.  This was a partnership with SMARTRISK and Insurance Bureau of Canada.  Results from these consultations are posted on the strategy website www.injurypreventionstrategy.ca and form part of the recommendations in the document “Ending Canada’s Invisible Epidemic: The Case for a National Injury Prevention Strategy.”
• CCCIP members have been instrumental in work towards national or provincial surveillance strategies and provincial injury prevention strategies.  They operate from an evidence base and ensure evaluation is integral to everything they do. 

Communication and Collaboration

• On an ongoing basis, the CCCIP members have partnered on research projects (e.g. sports injuries in youth) and share resources on many injury issue areas.
• National organizations, government departments and individuals have found the networks of CCCIP members to be an effective tool to gain information from a broad constituency or to disseminate information quickly to stakeholders across Canada.  Knowledge translation efforts reach a broad range of people and enable people to know who to talk to for reliable information on evidence based approaches to injury reduction and evaluation methodologies when they are planning initiatives in any injury area.

Benefits of working through the CCCIP

• Track record: CCCIP has a successful track record in building capacity across the country and providing credible resources to community based programmes.  The national curriculum would not have been developed had the CCCIP not existed. 
• Creates national standard: The CCCIP has created a national standard in its curriculum work to date.
• Creates efficiency:  products are better and better implemented as a result of the collaboration among CCCIP members.
• Multi-sectoral:  Along the continuum of injury from unintentional, to intentional and self-harm, there are many causes and therefore many sectors involved in the prevention of injury.  CCCIP members work with networks, coalitions and alliances in their own region that span this broad range of stakeholders.  Their partners range from professional experts, researchers or practitioners to community members with a personal interest.
• Knowledge translation of surveillance, research and programme information: CCCIP members have links to or have staff members engaged in research and /or surveillance.  They use their knowledge base to produce information products that educate and inform governments, partners, stakeholders and the public. The ultimate goal of policy and programme development in their region to reduce injury.
• Creates venue to focus on national perspective:  The CCCIP is uniquely placed in Canada to provide a comprehensive multi-sectoral national perspective on injury.  It can reach stakeholders at the provincial, regional and community levels in an efficient manner and engage them in research, programmes or advocacy.