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
- Older adult falls
- Unintentional poisoning
- Drowning
- Suicide
- Sexual violence
See our Injury and Violence Prevention fact sheet (PDF) for more information.
Federal Grants
We receive the following federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grants:
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
The primary goal of this program is to engage communities so 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 inter-agency agreement with the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy at 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 see the Sexual and Domestic Violence webpage for more information.