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What is the PPSCN?

What is the PPSCN?. We are a regional network aligned with International Safe Communities movement. Who Belongs to the PPSCN?. Every designated Safe Community in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States (as of June 30,2011, the count is 106 communities)

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What is the PPSCN?

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  1. What is the PPSCN? We are a regional network aligned with International Safe Communities movement.

  2. Who Belongs to the PPSCN? Every designated Safe Community in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States (as of June 30,2011, the count is 106 communities) Four Certifying Centres and six Affiliate Safe Community Support Centres in the region 50 communities in all four countries in various stages of development Note: membership in the PPSCN is granted on a community/ organizational basis rather than an individual one.

  3. Our Vision All people living in the Pan Pacific region are able to enjoy their lives free from the fear, cost, and pain of preventable injury and violence.

  4. Our Mission To improve networking and collaboration between Safe Communities in New Zealand, United States of America, Australia and Canada and, as determined appropriate by other nations, other countries geographically located in the Pan Pacific region.

  5. Our Principles Safety is a human right Safety is a shared responsibility Safety is an attainable aspiration

  6. Our Objectives To provide a forum for collaboration and knowledge sharing between Safe Communities within the Pan Pacific region. To identify ways to strengthen the uptake of best-practice in injury prevention and safety promotion. To identify ways to strengthen the lead roles for Safe Communities within the Pan Pacific region. To continue to work collaboratively with the International Safe Community Network, the World Health Organization Violence and Injury Prevention Division and any other relevant Safe Community Networks.

  7. Core Values of the PPSCN:These values underpin our vision, our mission and our objectives • Safety and wellbeing • Inclusion • Participation and partnerships • Honesty, respect and integrity • Celebration of strengths and successes • Appropriate, timely respectful communications • Acknowledging and welcoming differences

  8. What is Unique about the PPSCN? The PPSCN includes all Safe Communities—those with National and International and Regional designations-- in all four countries. The PPSCN includes community representation from all four countries as a key component of its governance structure. The PPSCN will continue to consult with every Safe Community in the Network on how it can best meet their needs. The PPSCN has articulated a set of core values.

  9. Accomplishments to date • We have developed a collegial working relationship defined by an MOU signed by all four certifying centers. • We have a logo and a web site. • We have established an effective PPSCN coordination committee. This committee is comprised of community reps elected or appointed by each country.

  10. America’s Reps on the PPSCN Coordination Committee • Marsha Howell Anchorage Alaska • Scott Heher, Itasca, Illinois • Shrikant Bandiwalla ,University of North Carolina • Donna Stein Harris, Safe Communities America

  11. Accomplishments (Cont’d) • Thanks to Australia, we have a logo • Thanks to New Zealand, we have a web site: www.ppscn.org • Thanks to the United States, we have held two teleconference meetings of the Coordination committee of the PPSCN

  12. What is in the works This fall, Safe Communities America will host our first PPSCN Webinar which will be developed in response to needs identified by communities in the network. This year, Safe Communities Canada will mentor a community in the network which wishes to complete our validated Community-Based Injury Prevention Priority-Setting exercise.

  13. How can you learn more? • Visit the PPSCN website and join, and actively participate in the Forum • Keep in touch with your coordination committee members • Keep in touch with Safe Communities America

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