JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

Through Alberta Health and Wellness, the ACICR has a provincial mandate
to provide leadership, initiative, influence, coordination and support for
injury-related policies, programming, education, research and surveillance
across the province in order that injury-related stakeholders can fulfill their
mandate in injury control. 5 While the ACICR has a business plan articulating
its vision, mission and strategies as the injury control coordinating body in
Alberta, its coordinating function is not guided by a provincial strategy that is
inclusive of all injury control stakeholders. Stakeholders have been
supportive of the trend toward a greater focus on coordination and
collaboration. However, they are concerned that this cannot be adequately
realized without broad involvement from a wide range of community sectors
in the planning, implementation and evaluation of injury control programs in
the province. These concerns led to an agreement to develop a provincial
injury control strategy that would involve all stakeholders in the injury
control field.
An Advisory Committee comprising a broad range of stakeholders involved
in injury control provided direction in the development of the strategy. A
Coordinating Committee, a subcommittee of the Advisory Committee,
guided the day-to-day project requirements. A list of the members on these
two committees is given in Appendix A.
Issue: no
provincial injury
control strategy to
facilitate
coordination of
injury control
efforts and
collaboration
among
stakeholders.
The response: an
inclusive and
comprehensive
process to
develop a
provincial injury
control strategy.
Key events took place to allow a broad range of input from stakeholders
across the province:
• Alberta Injury Control Strategy Community Consultations. Six
community consultations (Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton, St. Paul,
Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray) were held in September and October
2002 involving more than 200 participants. These sessions were open to
anyone interested in injury control.
• Alberta Injury Control Strategy Summit. A two-day invitational
meeting was held in November 2002 to consider input from community
consultations and to further develop the foundation for the strategy.
• Working Group of Stakeholders. A smaller group of stakeholders
came together in February 2003 to review the initial draft of the strategy.
In June 2003, the Advisory Committee accepted the final Alberta Injury
Control Strategy presented in this document.
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