Injury Free Kids: The Childhood Obesity Chapter
The Injury Free Coalition for Kids
With a network of sites and support infrastructure already in place, Injury Free provided an efficient mechanism for developing and testing promising innovations in obesity prevention, the team believed. Effective models might—at some later point—be disseminated to other Injury Free sites.
While recognizing the potential for this new work to distract the local coalitions from their primary purpose—trauma prevention—the team noted that Injury Free Kids Program Director Barbara Barlow enthusiastically backed the expanded focus.
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Stories from the RWJF national program, Injury Free Coalition for Kids: Dissemination of a Model Injury-Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents
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