Utilizing Shared Risk and Protective Factors to Engage Partners and Enhance Collaboration Efforts
Abstract
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is the lead agency on preventing injury, disability, and disease, promoting health and well-being, and preparing for and responding to disasters. The Georgia DPH Injury Prevention Program (IPP) has two driving principles: addressing intentional and unintentional injury across the lifespan and utilizing the shared risk and protective factors (SRPF) framework. IPP has a long-standing history of collaboration across agencies and sectors, to address preventable harm across geography, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Risk and protective factors are critical components for preventing several forms of intentional and unintentional injury and can be used to enhance current programming and services provided within an organization. SRPF drives the formation of strategic partnerships across sectors, builds capacity, ensures program sustainability through opportunities for diversified funding, and expands reach. Understanding the intersection of the SRPF framework will allow community partners to align their implementation efforts by integrating nontraditional and siloed partners into the organization's prevention efforts. Most evidence-based strategies involve multiple sectors thus building an organization's capacity to implement and creating new opportunities to sustain prevention work through collaboration.
Keywords
building partnerships, public health approach, youth violence prevention, shared risk and protective factors, collaboration, multi-sectors
Utilizing Shared Risk and Protective Factors to Engage Partners and Enhance Collaboration Efforts
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is the lead agency on preventing injury, disability, and disease, promoting health and well-being, and preparing for and responding to disasters. The Georgia DPH Injury Prevention Program (IPP) has two driving principles: addressing intentional and unintentional injury across the lifespan and utilizing the shared risk and protective factors (SRPF) framework. IPP has a long-standing history of collaboration across agencies and sectors, to address preventable harm across geography, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Risk and protective factors are critical components for preventing several forms of intentional and unintentional injury and can be used to enhance current programming and services provided within an organization. SRPF drives the formation of strategic partnerships across sectors, builds capacity, ensures program sustainability through opportunities for diversified funding, and expands reach. Understanding the intersection of the SRPF framework will allow community partners to align their implementation efforts by integrating nontraditional and siloed partners into the organization's prevention efforts. Most evidence-based strategies involve multiple sectors thus building an organization's capacity to implement and creating new opportunities to sustain prevention work through collaboration.
