May 5, 2021

2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. ET

The Child Safety Learning Collaborative:

Together We Are Stronger
Moderator

Jenny Stern-Carusone

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Funding Sponsor
This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Child and
Adolescent Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Centers Cooperative Agreement
(U49MC28422) for $5,000,000 with 0 percent financed with non-governmental
sources. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and
should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any
endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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State Presenters

Nicole Cousins Jane Herwehe Terri Miller Brittany Willis

Program Assistant Injury Director Safe Infant Sleep Suicide Prevention
Louisiana Department Louisiana Department Program Manage Program Director
of Health, Bureau of of Health, Bureau of Georgia Department of Tennessee Department
Family Health Family Health Public Health of Health

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Webinar Agenda

Overview of The Child

Examples of Peer How to Join the CSLC
Safety Learning
Learning Successes Cohort 3
Collaborative (CSLC)
•Our Vision •Suicide & Self Harm •Topic Areas
•Our Strategy Prevention Teams •Timeline to Apply
•How We Support •Sudden Unexpected
Title V States Infant Death
Prevention Team

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Child Safety Learning Collaborative

Jenny Stern-Carusone
CSN Associate Director/CSLC Lead

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 Advancing the Field of Injury and Violence Prevention

National Partnerhips Training and Learning Webinars and

Technical Assistance Collaboratives Resources

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 CSLC Vision
Reduce fatal and serious injuries
among infants, children, and
adolescents in participating states
and jurisdictions by:
• Building and improving partnerships
• Implementing and spreading best
practices, especially among the most
vulnerable populations.

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Our Strategy: CSN Framework for Quality Improvement and
Innovation in Child Safety
CSLC helps state/jurisdiction teams State/jurisdiction teams
strengthen these three components experience these improvements Effective
state/jurisdiction teams
increase
child safety

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Learning Collaborative Time Frame

Cohort 1 Cohort 2 Cohort 3

November 2018- May 2020 - November 2021-
April 2020 October 2021 April 2023

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Cohort 2: 14 States/20 Strategy Teams/4 Topics

Strategy Teams are State-Specific and Topic Teams are where we come Together around the topic 12
CSLC Support
• Provides a space for teams to share their challenges Current Topic Areas
and learn from one another Bullying Prevention (BP)
• Provides a strategic focus
Motor Vehicle Traffic Safety
• Evidence-based and evidence-informed (MVTS)
strategies
Sudden Unexpected Infant
• Quality improvement tools and approaches Death Prevention (SUIDP)
• Support for re-strategizing or re-focusing in times
of disruption Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention
• Adds health equity as a lens (SSHP)

• Provides relevant training and technical assistance

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CSLC Resilience
Adapting evidence-based trainings to virtual format
PA Working with Clemson University to adapt the Olweus
BP Team Bullying Prevention Program for Community Youth
Organizations trainings to virtual

WA & WI Converted child passenger safety technician

MVTS Teams
training and certification to virtual

GA
SUIDP Created virtual training for Home Visiting programs
Team

TN Converted QPR (Question/Persuasion/Response)

SSHP Team gatekeeper training

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CSLC Resilience
Creating new methods and procedures to convert face-to-face activities to
COVID-19 parameters

WI & FL Converted to curbside car seat distribution and use of

MVTS video for seat installation training/instruction
Teams

PA Adapting outreach and training for new hospitals joining safe

SUIDP sleep network and creating a website resource to supplement
Team in-hospital education for parents

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CSLC Resilience
Adjusting strategies and focus in response to disruptions

Due to COVID and schools not conducting Teens in the Driver

NE Seat, turned their focus to providing virtual opportunities for
MVTS drivers’ education, getting graduated driver’s licensing law
Team information incorporated into the DMV Driver Education
Curriculum Standards, and creating a survey to understand
how law enforcement communicates information around
traffic safety
LA Due to the impact of COVID and hurricane on partnerships,
SSHP shifted from valid and reliable suicide risk screening tools in
Team schools and healthcare settings to virtual gatekeeper
trainings

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CSLC Resilience
Diverse Partnerships

Launched a youth advisory board to CSLC Partnership Examples:

WY • Community-based organizations
MVTS & SSHP ensure efforts in SSHP and teen
driver safety meet community needs • School districts
Teams • Law enforcement
• Universities
• Safe Kids coalitions
• Hospitals
• Home Visiting Programs
Worked with their car seat • State Departments of Motor Vehicles
TX distribution funder to adjust (DMV)
MVTS criteria in response to changing • State Departments of Transportation
Team circumstances due to COVID (DOT)
• State Departments of Mental Health
(DMH)
• Youth Advisory Groups
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 Questions for Peers

Quality
Successes to Share Improvement
Questions

All Teach
All Learn

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Peer Sharing in Action:
Suicide and Self-Harm
Prevention Team

Maria Katradis
SSHP Topic Lead & CSLC Data Manager

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Sharing Between States

Brittany Willis
Tennessee Department of Health

Nicole Cousins and Jane Herwehe

Louisiana Department of Health,
Bureau of Family Health

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Peer Sharing Example:
Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
Prevention Team

Erin Ficker
SUIDP Topic Lead

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Georgia’s Local Collaborative

Terri Miller
Safe Infant Sleep Program Manager
Georgia Department of Public Health

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Questions and Answers

Please enter your questions in the Q & A pod

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Join the CSLC for Cohort 3: November 2021-April 2023
Application process

• June 25, 2021: Application available on Cohort 3 Topics

CSN website Bullying Prevention
• July 2021: Informational webinars on CSLC Motor Vehicle Traffic Safety
and application process
Poisoning Prevention
• August 20, 2021: Applications due
Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
• October 2021: New member orientations Prevention
scheduled
Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention
• November 2021: Cohort kick-off with full
Collaborative Learning Session

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Jennifer Leonardo
CSN Director
jleonardo@edc.org

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