Capacity Building Effectiveness in Four Safety Coalitions
PI - F. Douglas Scutchfield
University of Kentucky
This evaluation/intervention project will investigate the effectiveness of community safety coalitions' efforts to prevent injuries. The specific aims of this study are to: a) Investigate the relationship between the characteristics of an injury prevention coalition and the quality of its injury prevention program; b) Investigate the relationship between organizational social capital, coalition structure and processes, and the outcome of improved community awareness and knowledge of injury prevention; c) Evaluate the effectiveness of a training program designed to increase coalition capacity to conduct injury prevention assessment, to develop planning, and to implement programs; and d) Develop a logic model or critical pathway that outlines the stages that a successful coalition must proceed over time. The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center will partner with injury prevention coalitions in four counties: Barren, Metcalfe, and Madison County, Kentucky and Holmes County, Ohio. Two of the coalitions will receive training interventions to increase their ability to plan, implement, and assess local injury prevention programs. The two intervention coalitions that received the training will be compared with control coalitions to measure the effect that the training had on increasing coalition capacity to prevent injuries. The safety coalition's ability to plan effective injury prevention programs will be evaluated through a number of quantitative and qualitative methods, including key stakeholder interviews, coalition member surveys, and population based surveys of the community. Results of this project will contribute to an understanding of community building through participatory research for injury prevention.
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