Moving from review to action
Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin (the Alliance) and the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention hosted a virtual workshop called PIER Forward: Wisconsin’s Commitment to Child Safety. The workshop focused on the Pediatric Injury Equity Review (PIER) process.

Sadiqa A.I. Kendi, MD, MPH, led the workshop. She showed how child death review (CDR) teams and fetal infant mortality review (FIMR) teams can use PIER to go beyond looking at what happened. With PIER, teams can find ways to take action and prevent future harm.

Learning by doing
Participants learned the three steps of the PIER process and practiced each step in small group activities and discussions. This hands-on format helped them learn from one another and connect PIER to real cases and local prevention work.

What participants learned
In the workshop, participants learned how to:

  • Use the PIER process in their CDR and FIMR work
  • Use case details to define clear problems to prevent
  • Write strong SMARTE recommendations
  • Find gaps, current efforts and ways to work together
  • Plan next steps to put recommendations into action

SMARTE recommendations are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound and equitable.

Turning lessons into prevention
PIER links data, case reviews and prevention. When teams find gaps and build shared plans they can act on, lessons from child deaths and injuries can lead to real change. That change helps keep children safe and prevent future loss.

Wisconsin review teams bring together people from many fields. The workshop showed our state’s commitment to using these teams to understand why children die or are injured. It also showed our focus on finding fair, practical solutions that communities can put into action.

Bring PIER to your review team
Want to strengthen your team’s prevention work? Connect with the Alliance’s injury prevention and death review initiative to learn about training, tools and support for CDR and FIMR teams.

Blog post written by Program Manager, Amy Jenkins, MSW, APSW