About Us

The goal of our Injury and Violence Prevention Program is to eliminate preventable death and disability due to injury and violence.

We work to reduce injury risk in Washington State.

We use our data to identify prevention priorities and develop interventions based on best practices.

We work with local partners on prevention programs such as:

• Motor vehicle safety
• Senior falls
• Unintentional poisoning
• Drowning
• Suicide
• Sexual violence

Federal CDC Grants

We receive the following federal CDC grants:

Core Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core VIPP)

The CDC supports us to build capacity related to the prevention and control of injuries and to strengthen our injury surveillance programs.

We focus on these objectives:

• Establish an injury community planning group
• Collect, analyze, and use injury data
• Develop a state plan for injury and violence prevention
• Support and evaluate interventions
• Establish a Regional Network
• Focus on motor vehicle child injury prevention policy

Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program

The primary goal of this program is to engage communities so that they address community norms that foster sexual violence and work toward preventing sexual assault.

We support local and statewide efforts in the area of sexual assault prevention through an interagency agreement with the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy in the Department of Commerce.

A great deal of work is done through the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs and through local sexual assault programs and other community based organizations.

Please visit www.doh.wa.gov/vaw for more information.