Field Placement:  San Francisco Department of Public Health, Child Unintentional Injury Prevention Program
Location: San Francisco, CA
Preceptor: Isabel Auerbach
Student Name: Marianne Cadiz
Year: 2008

Injury and injury prevention are often overlooked in the field of public health.  Injuries, however, are preventable and must be addressed.  The Child Unintentional Injury Prevention Program (CUIP) is a project of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and is coordinated by Isabel Auerbach, MPH, CHES.  The CUIP is housed in the Injury Prevention Unit, a major focus area for the Community Health Education Section of the Community Health Promotion and Prevention Branch of the SFDPH.  The CUIP works to coordinate child injury prevention efforts and aims to integrate the existing child injury prevention programs within the SFDPH.  Its goals are to reduce childhood injuries and fatalities by reducing high-risk behaviors, increasing use of prevention services, increasing community action for safer environments, supporting policy efforts that improve childhood safety, reducing specific childhood injuries, and reducing childhood injuries that require hospitalization, in high-risk target populations.  The CUIP works with neighborhood communities to keep children safe in San Francisco.  The CUIP is funded by the State of California through a grant to the SFDPH.  The California Kids' Plates Initiative, a statewide program that funds child injury prevention, child abuse prevention, and regulation of childcare services, funds the Child Unintentional Injury Prevention Program.

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