2008 ICCWA Injury Prevention Awards

Deborah Costello, CEO of ICCWA had high praise for the winners of each category and all of the nominations received. “As it is imposssible to give an award to all nominees, this year the Awards Review Panel felt it was very important to give recognition to a number of additional nominees for their contribution to injury prevention.” Their important work was recognised with a Highly Commended Category

The following awards were presented :

• The ICCWA Community Injury Prevention Award
• The ICCWA Award for Oustanding Achievement in Injury Prevention
• The ICCWA Award for Excellence in Injury Prevention Research
• The ICCWA Media Award for Excellence in Injury Prevention Reporting
• The ICCWA Student Award
• The ICCWA Volunteer Awards

Paraplegic Benefit Fund (PBF) Australia wins

 

Highly Commended:  Living Longer Living Stronger – Council on the Ageing WA

Nadia Clarke accepted this award on behalf of COTA (WA).  This successful program has been running for over 4 years and aims to increase participation in strength based training in those aged over 50 years. The program seeks to maximize opportunities for people to engage in affordable, high quality strength training programs over the long term whilst optimising conditions for social engagement of participants.

Highly Commended: Esme Bowen – Volunteer

Esme Bowen accepting her certificate

Esme works with a wide range of organisations working in a collaborative and community based manner to build partnerships and sustainable strategies for injury prevention. Esme is a kind and caring person who is always willing to lend a hand or an ear. She continually promotes road safety and works with those who have been traumatised by road crashes.
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ICCWA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Injury Prevention
Two winners for this category

Gary Butcher, Choose Respect International

Gary Butcher accepting his award

Gary is the creator of the Choose Respect Initiative, which provides a code of behaviour at an individual level and also provides a framework and common language for whole communities to work together to foster a culture of respect. Choose Respect has been used in the Shire of Boddington over the last two years with significant results. Formal evaluation has shown that levels of mutual respect between teachers, students, parents, police and the general community have risen and incidences of unacceptable behaviour have reduced. Choose Respect is now also being implemented in the City of Bunbury and towns like Morawa, Mullewa, Wagin, Darkan and more recently Carnarvon.

Janelle Leiper, Population Health – WA Country Health Service South West

Janelle Leiper accepting her award

Over the last 14 years, Janelle has demonstrated her professionalism and commitment to injury prevention. Her leadership in this area within the South West and more recently at a State level shows her willingness to promote and engage in a wide range of injury prevention activities. Janelle has worked across a broad range of areas including falls prevention, suicide prevention, road safety, childhood injuries, farm injuries, alcohol and other drugs, epidemiology, research and Safe Communities. She has also been directly involved with implementing key initiatives such as SOYFWA® and the Understanding and Building Resilience in the South West project. Janelle has shown a solid determination and commitment to see injury prevention high on the agenda for government, nongovernment agencies and the general community.
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The Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University  wins the
The ICCWA Award for Excellence in Injury Prevention Research

Dr Debora Brown accepting on behalf of CHPRC

Over the last 7 years the Centre has undertaken extensive research with the aim of preventing intentional harm and injury caused through bullying, harassment and aggression. The research conducted by the team at the Centre has been disseminated extensively and resulted in significant policy and practice changes within WA schools. Additionally, the work is now being recognised both nationally and internationally. This research has played a crucial role in raising awareness about the issues of harassment, bullying and aggression to better prevent harm imposed by children on their peers leading to severe mental, social and physical injury. The research conducted by the Centre has shown that ‘whole of school’ approaches can have a significant impact on reducing these harmful behaviours.
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Highly Commended: Nicholas Waldron, Armadale Health Service

Nicholas Waldren accepting his award

Dr Nicholas Waldron’s well regarded research entitled “Falls prevention for older patients presenting at Emergency Department” has produced a means of measuring the delivery of evidence based falls prevention care, via the development of meaningful indicators.
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Marnie McKimmie and Keryn McKinnon, from The West Australian win the ICCWA Media Award for Excellence in Injury Prevention Reporting

Marnie McKimmie accepting her award

Both Marnie and Keryn have undertaken some excellent reporting of injury and community safety issues
through the Health and Medicine Supplement of the West Australian. Marnie has demonstrated outstanding journalism in the way she approached the difficult and complex issue of suicide. Marnie is to be commended on the thoroughness of her approach to this challenging topic, the care she took in following the national media guidelines and her professionalism in checking the accuracy of her nformation. The feature was informative, accurate and very accessible to the general community and resulted Injury Prevention Awards WA Excellence in in a significant increase in the number of calls to the Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention for information. Marnie and Keryn jointly demonstrated their professionalism in the way they reported issues relating to alcohol related harm in our community. The Health and Medicine edition that covered these controversial issues was a high quality piece of journalism highlighting research evidence in relation to alcohol use, associated problems and policy in an informative and accurate way. The Health and Medicine team are to be commended for their efforts and for enhancing public debate around this highly topical and important area.
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Youth Work Students at SW TAFE win the ICCWA Student Award

Dr Beth Jackson accepts the award on behalf of the SW TAFE Students

The Certificate III & IV Youth Work Students have participated in a number of activities relating to the
Understanding and Building Resilience in the South West Project. They have been very willing to undertake deep personal reflection on their values and habits and to experiment with changing how they relate to themselves, their families, their peers and other community service workers. The students have actively participated in a variety of workshops relating to injury prevention and community safety such as: sexuality, diversity & inclusion, coping skills, selfharm, depression, suicide intervention, goal setting and referral pathways. The authentic and sincere manner in which the students have engaged in their learning has allowed them to build support networks and increased their capacity to act together within a fabric of increased resilience. Congratulations to Course Coordinator Steve McKinney and students.
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Highly Commended: Adrian Koh – University of Western Australia

Adrian Koh accepts his award

Adrian is a final year Bachelor of Health Science student from UWA who has been on practicum with ICCWA for the last 3 months. Adrian has been involved in a number of ICCWA projects which have included advocacy, research, a funding application and project work. Adrian is an exceptional team player and has approached his placement with a high level of professionalism.