GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

1) EMSC Needs Assessment of State and Regional Resources

• To utilize the EMSC Needs Assessment (based upon the EMSC National Resource Center template) to conduct a statewide assessment of both the State EMSC program and the five Pediatric Regional EMS Advisory Committees

• To identify systems projects to conduct based upon the needs assessment

2) Prevention Initiatives in Partnership with the Community

• To expand the injury prevention initiatives at the state, regional, and local levels to include the NFPA Risk Watch curriculum training programs

• To develop partnerships between public safety, community health, and school health programs

• To initiate the development of Risk Watch partners in one county per region during each year of the grant award

3) ABCs for KIDS:  Kids in Disasters

• To write a template for continuing education workshops focused on the needs of children and families in multicasualty/disasters that will complement the existing courses available in Maryland

• To develop a core faculty and necessary instructor resources to enable dissemination of the ABCs for KIDS workshop in the five EMS Regions in collaboration with pediatric and educational professionals

• To develop models for table-top and full-scale drills focused on incidents with children of different ages and reflecting the diversity of Maryland's population and geography
November, 2001