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Victorian 'Safe Communities' Information KitSection 5 - WHO Affiliated Safe Community Support CentresTo provide assistance to the Safe Community movement the concept of Affiliated Safe Community Support Centres was established in 1996. An organisation can be appointed as an Affiliate Safe Community Support Centre by fulfilling a set of criteria which involves providing advice and assistance to communities on community-based injury prevention planning, implementation and evaluation. To date these Centres are recognised by the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion as Affiliated Safe Community Support Centres:
Criteria for membershipSafe Communities have:
Re-designation as a Safe Community after 5 years!Follow up of the Safe Communities activities. www.phs.ki.se/csp The WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion at the Karolinska Institutet has decided to perform the follow up of the Safe Communities activities after 5 years, instead of 10 years. www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/Application%20reports/Reapplication_5years_nov2005.pdf For the newsletter ‘Safe Community Weekly News’ visit: www.safecommunity.net The newsletters are also translated and available in about twenty different languages. Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC)MUARC was designated an Affiliated Safe Community Support Centre by the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion at a special ceremony during Victorian Community Safety Week in September 1997. MUARC is heavily involved in the development of community injury prevention programs in Victoria and has supported both of the Victorian WHO Safe Communities (City of Hume Safe Living Program and La Trobe Shire Safe Communities) from their inception. MUARC is able to provide a data, research and evaluation support and advisory service to current and aspiring ‘Safe Communities’ across Victoria and Australia and to any other local communities that are planning community injury prevention programs. To fulfil all the functions associated with its designation as a WHO Affiliated Safe Community Support Centre, MUARC supports the development of current and new initiatives to prevent injury and promote community safety through:
In late 1998 MUARC was funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation to employ (on behalf of the Victorian Safe Communities Network) a full-time project officer. Located at Monash University, the project officer’s main role is to support the development of current and new initiatives to prevent injury and promote community safety at local government and community levels and recruit local injury prevention and community safety programs into the Victorian Safe Communities Network. Contact details
Royal Children’s Hospital Safety CentreThe Royal Children’s Hospital through its Safety Centre has been a world leader in the promotion of child and adolescent safety for two decades, and has played a significant role in helping make Victoria one of the safest places in the world for children to grow up. In recent years the Safety Centre’s program has included a full range of injury prevention services including education programs for parents, teachers, public health, medical and other tertiary students, safety promotion programs and the implementation of interventions in many communities. The Safety Centre will also be offering support to aspiring ‘safe communities’ with particular focus on partnerships with two high risk groups – low income groups and groups from non-English speaking backgrounds. The Safety Centre’s Safe Accident-Free Environment (SAFE) program is a special program targeted at these selected communities. The SAFE Program now offers injury prevention information in 13 languages, supplemented by multi-lingual displays, videos, audio-tapes and an interpreter service. Contact details
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