The Safekids Action Model

Safekids New Zealand uses the Spectrum of Prevention to develop, implement and evaluate its child injury-prevention work.

Spectrum of Prevention

Under the Spectrum of Prevention model, Safekids New Zealand:

Builds a solid base of information about unintentional childhood injuries and how it can be prevented.
Advocates for the development of safer environments, policies and practices that contribute to a reduction in child injury.
Promotes child-safe organisational practices.
Educates those in the education, health and community injuryprevention
fields.
Works to increase media and community awareness about child injury and its prevention.
Builds partnerships, coalitions and networks to undertake collaborative action on child injury-prevention work.
Provides a professional child injury information service

This version of the Spectrum of Prevention has been adapted by Safekids New Zealand in the early 1990s to include Building a solid base of information. (The original model was developed in 1986 by Contra Costa County Prevention Programme, California, USA.)

Download a Pdf for more information about the Spectrum of Prevention, or download a Pdf of the Spectrum of Prevention graphic.

For more information about the Spectrum of Prevention model, email infocentre@safekids.org.nz.

This page was last updated July 22, 2009.