Strengthening Rural and Remote WA - Community Safety and Injury Prevention Conference 2009

• Date:

  29 - 30 June 2009

• Location:

  Geraldton, Western Australia

• Category:

  Some Indigenous content

Overview

This conference series is part of a program of capacity building activities for health professionals involved in community safety and injury prevention in rural and remote Western Australia. ICCWA (Injury Control Council of Western Australia) is pleased to be delivering this program with the support of the Department of Health WA.

The conference aims to promote excellence in community safety promotion and injury prevention, build capacity at the local level and showcase initiatives making a difference in the community.

Conference themes:

1. Strengthening Regional and Remote Communities (creative approaches, capacity building and workforce development, community development)
2. Injury Prevention in Specific Population Groups
3. Alcohol-Related Injury Prevention
4. Community Action for Injury Prevention

Abstracts Close 27 March 2009

HealthInfoNet Cafe

The purpose of this conference was to provide a forum for the sharing of ideas and knowledge about enhancing community safety and preventing injury in rural and remote Western Australia. Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (AIH) contributed to these aims by running an Internet cafe for conference delegates to demonstrate how they could use the AIH web resource to access knowledge on injury prevention in Indigenous communities.

Contacts

Ph: (08) 9420 7212
Email: iccwaevents@iccwa.org.au

Links

• View information: Community safety injury prevention conference 2009 call for abstracts (PDF - 268.2 KB)
• View information: Community safety injury prevention conference 2009 program (PDF - 763.7 KB)
• View information: Community safety injury prevention conference 2009 registration form (PDF - 167.6 KB)
• View information: Community safety injury prevention conference 2009 travel grant application (PDF - 258.2 KB)
• View website: Strengthening Rural and Remote WA