Workshop Session 2B

Saturday, December 2, 2023, 2:50 PM to 4:05 PM
SALONS A/B

The death of a child is a community tragedy and blame does not rest in any singular place. CDR teams are multidisciplinary, community-based, data-driven, and action-oriented processes that seek to understand the risk and protective factors surrounding a death to identify systems gaps and strengths. The goal of CDR is to help communities celebrate more birthdays. This session will focus on how CDR teams can help inform IFCK activities. CDR offer a unique and timely view into how families live, work, study, and play. The multidisciplinary review of the child, family, and systems examines interactions before the child’s death, during the death-causing event, and after. Common team members include, healthcare providers, child welfare professionals, coroners or medical examiners, death scene investigators, home visiting programs, healthy start agencies, district attorneys or other legal system leaders, and community-based organizations. CDR teams review and collect data from a wide variety of records, including medical, social service and support services, school, death scene, autopsy, public health, child welfare, and legal. These records help paint a complete picture of what systems and resources were available to the family and barriers to access.CDR teams discuss the social context in which the family lives. This includes discussing inequities and life stressors such as racism, housing instability, poverty, relationship challenges, transitions, and trauma history. Life stressors are often contributing drivers to child death. As a result, CDR teams create a unique data set that can be used to identify individual, family, community, agency, and policy strengths and gaps. The National Center provides extensive resources on a wide range of topics. This includes resources for specific causes and manners of death such as drowning, suicide, or motor vehicle crashes. Resources for discussing, uncovering, and addressing inequities present at the individual, family, community, agency, and systems levels are also available. Lastly, the National Center provides resources for CDR teams on how to improve data collection, entry, analysis, and dissemination. The National Center produces a variety of data products and maintains an interactive web-based Tableau environment populated by deaths entered into the National Fatality Review- Case Reporting System (NFR-CRS) by CDR teams. This data is available at the national, state, and local levels. It is intended to inform and enhance prevention activities. The National Center also produces data infographics and in-depth data reports. One of the most impactful components of CDR is improved systems responses and interpersonal relationships between agencies. Leveraging relationships to conduct public health work is a core public health function. CDR teams offer a unique web of partners that can help inform injury prevention activities. This session will focus on the CDR process, the data collected and provide examples of how CDR and IFCK collaborate.

1. Gain an understanding of the CDR process.
2. Understand how data collected by CDR teams can inform injury prevention activities.
3. Identify opportunities to build or enhance collaboration between CDR teams and IFCK coalitions.
4. Hear success stories from IFCK coalitions that are collaborating with their CDR program.