Advancing Childhood Injury Prevention in California’s High Country
The Partnership for Health Equity and Inclusion is a current recipient of a child passenger safety grant from Butte County Public Health to continue the North State Coalition for Childhood Injury Prevention work. PHEI was a previous grant recipient from the Kids Plates Program. September 1, 2023-June 30, 2025. This grant from the California Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Branch (CDPH IVPB) served a 19-county region within far northern rural counties of California known as High Country. The North State Coalition for Childhood Injury Prevention regional project created by PHEI served the counties of: Amador, Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, and Yuba.
The North State Coalition for Childhood Injury Prevention regional project created by PHEI serves the counties of: Amador, Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, and Yuba. As a Kids Plates participant and with separate CPS (Child Passenger Safety) contracts under VOSP (Vehicle Occupant Safety Program), PHEI staff have vastly increased the number of trained and certified CPS technicians in law enforcement and non-law enforcement agencies such as Head Start and First Five and Tribes in the rural California counties being targeted by this application. PHEI staff have been working in the High Country region for many years, through multiple projects with CDPH VOSP, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB) to build rural capacity to provide support and services to their respective communities.
Advancing Child Passenger Safety Through Regional Collaboration
PHEI’s previous Kids Plates grant was a direct outgrowth of prior PHEI staff community work providing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) certification courses by partnering with Butte County Public Health for over 7 years. Collaboratively, our staff have conducted approximately 30 NHTSA new technician courses, 8 NHTSA recertification courses, and 35 car seat check-up events in 7 northern California counties including those identified in the High Country region. We trained 20% of the North States new car seat technicians between November 2021 and September 2022; resulting in 45 new technicians, two technician renewals, and two new instructors being trained during that one year. This model is now being replicated and expanded from 14 to 19 far northern California counties in the current Butte County Public Health grant.
Seatbelt Safety Successes
Approximately 30 NHTSA new technician courses.
8 NHTSA recertification courses.
35 car seat check-up events in 7 northern California counties.
Partnership for Health Equity and Inclusion 