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Injury prevention

Child Fatality Prevention System

The Child Fatality Prevention System (CFPS) is a statewide, legislatively mandated, multidisciplinary, multi-agency network to prevent child deaths that includes:

  • Local child fatality review teams
  • Data and information
  • State review team
     

Communities That Care
  • State and regional profiles summarizing the findings from the 2017 and 2019 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey data pertinent to scientifically validated and researched shared risk and protective factor (SRPF) data.
     

Community Prevention and Early Intervention (CPEI)

The Colorado Office of Policy, Research, and Regulatory Reform is currently conducting a sunset review of CDPHE's Rural Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Program.
Analysis is performed to determine if the statute regarding the program is necessary and should be continued, modified, or repealed.

Disordered Eating Prevention Resource Hub

Disordered eating can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, or ethnic background, and its impact on mental and physical health can be significant.

Motor vehicle safety

Safe roads are important to everyone so we can all enjoy the great things Colorado has to offer. Learn more about motor vehicle safety including:

  • Car seat safety
  • Teen motor vehicle safety
  • Safe, sober, and distraction-free driving
     

Older adult fall prevention

The CDC's Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) Initiative comprises three core elements: Screen, Assess, and Intervene. Learn more:

  • Clinical guidelines for fall prevention
  • Take charge of your independence by preventing falls
  • Exercise classes proven to help prevent falls
     

Reducing infection from injection drug use

The goal of syringe service programs is to reduce harms associated with drug use including injection-related health risks and overdose.

  • List of Colorado syringe access programs and resources for harm reduction

Suicide prevention

Overdose prevention

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment receives funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, to address drug overdoses. Learn more about:

  • Naloxone information and bulk fund resources
  • Overdose prevention grants and funding
  • Preventing prescription drug misuse

Injury and violence data and epidemiology

Data resources used to inform prevention efforts in the priority injury areas:

  • Injuries in Colorado Dashboard
  • Motor vehicle safety
  • Suicide prevention
  • Older adult fall prevention
  • Prescription drug misuse prevention
  • Child maltreatment prevention
  • Sexual violence prevention

Excessive alcohol use prevention

Reduce excessive alcohol-related harms through:

  • Data-driven decision making.
  • Increased awareness about the public health impact of excessive alcohol use.
  • Improved collaboration between partners working on prevention.