Injury Prevention & Child Death Review

Mental Health

Each county needs a child death review (CDR) team to:

• Better understand how and why children dye ensuring policies and programs related to child health, safety, and protection are evaluated and changed if necessary.
• Share information to ensure all the contributing factors of a child’s death are identified and discussed.
• Provide residents with best practice information related to child heath, safety and protection.
• Demonstrate the county's commitment to keeping kids alive.

Proposed model for Wisconsin

Local/regional CDR teams will be established as multidisciplinary teams to review all child death cases and share information among team members. The scope of the team’s work will focus on three areas: investigation, services and prevention.

Common CDR team members
These individuals are responsible for responding to child deaths or for protecting the health or safety of children. A CDR team should always have representatives from the following agencies or professions:

• Law enforcement
• Child protective services
• Prosecutor/district attorney
• Medical examiner/coroner
• Public health
• Pediatrician, family health provider or pediatric nurse practitioner
• Emergency medical services

Additional members can be added as needed.

Child Death Review Summit - Oct. 9, 2009

Best Practices in Prevention and Legislation

• Celebrating success, Abby Collier, MS and
  Amy Schlotthauer, MPH
• National scope: child death review activities, progress and goals, Teri Covington, MPH
• Child death review legislation: proposed model for Wisconsin, Karen Ordinans and Charity Eleson
• Catalyzing prevention, Timothy E. Corden, MD
• Influencing community action: prevention recommendations, Bridget Clementi
• Prevention checklist

CDR team training - Jan. 29, 2009

Creating a CDR team
- Implementing a CDR team, Abby Drew

- Collecting and reporting CDR data, Amy Schlotthauer MPH and  

   Rebecca Turpin MA

CDR team training - Nov. 13, 2008

10 elements of a highly effective team
- Identifying risk factors related to preventable deaths, Timothy
  Corden, MD

- Summary of CDR activities in Wisconsin, William Perloff, MD

- History and progression of CDR activities in Wisconsin, William

  Perloff, MD

- 10 elements of a highly effective CDR team, Teri Covington, MPH

CDR team training materials - 2007
- Overview of Wisconsin's CDR Program, William Perloff, MD
- CDR in Wisconsin: Rationale, Goals and Progress
- CDR, Teri Covington, MPH
- Organizing a Team, Teri Covington, MPH
- The Review Meeting, Teri Covington, MPH
- Using Reviews to Prevent Other Deaths, Teri Covington, MPH
- Other Types of Reviews, Teri Covington, MPH
- A Practice Review, Teri Covington, MPH
- Reporting your Findings, Teri Covington, MPH
- Using the National Center for CDR, Teri Covington, MPH

Resources for teams
- Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin - CDR team guidebook.

- Local Child Death Review Teams and contact information.

- Active Child Death Review Teams in Wisconsin.

- Deaths of WIsconsin children under age 18 listed by county.

- Injury-related deaths for Wisconsin children under age 18
  listed by county.

For more information about our child death review initiatives, please contact Abby Collier, Child Death Review Project Manager, at (414) 292-4016.

DID YOU KNOW...
Children age 6 and younger primarily suffer from injuries on the farm due to falls, large animals and close proximity to tractor incidents.