Name of the Community:
Latrobe City Safe Communities
Country: Australia
Number of inhabitants: 71,000
Program started year: 1992
"WHO- designation" year: 1996
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The program covers the following safety promotion activities:
The program covers the following safety promotion activities:
For the age group
Children (0-14 years): Yes
Youth (15-24 years): Yes
Adults (25-64 years): Yes
Elderly (65+): Yes
At the following environments:
Home: Yes
Traffic: With Central Gippsland Community Road Safety Council
(RoadSafe).
Occupational: With Industry Partnerships & Gippsland Network of
Health and Safety Professionals, small business safety project – Victorian WorkSafe
(WorkCover Authority).
Schools: Range of school based youth programs – safety audits,
curriculum materials, alcohol and drugs, Personal Safety, sports, keys please, drive safe.
Sports/Recreation: GoodSports (in partnership with Australian Drug
Foundation/VicHealth & Gippsland Sports Assembly network) see
www.adf.org.au/goodsports.
Leisure: Watersafety, PartySafe.
Other: Alcohol and Public Places, Violence, Farms, Annual Community
Safety Month – see www.communitysafetymonth.com
"Accidents" (non-intentional injuries) in the following injury areas: all
environments
Violence prevention: with Victoria Police through Local Safety
Committee, Family Violence Network, Agencies and Schools.
Suicide prevention: with local action group in central Gippsland
Programs aiming at "High risk-groups":
Non English Speaking background with Gippsland Migrant Resource Council and Aboriginal
Communities, Aged Falls Prevention.
Surveillance of injuries:
Latrobe Regional Hospital & some General Medical Practitioners.
Numbers per year: approx. 15,000
Population base: 70,000 plus neighbouring municipalities.
Started year: detailed 1991-1996, now via electronic system. see below.
Publications:
Day,L. Cassell, E. McGrath, A. & Ozanne-Smith,J. (Authors.) "Latrobe
Valley Better Health Project: Evaluation of the Injury Prevention Program 1992-1996"
Monash University Accident Research Centre, Clayton Vic. Australia 1997
Harberts, H. "Community Cooperation toward a safer future" project report of
Latrobe Valley Better Health Injury Prevention Program 1992-1996 funded by VicHealth,
Monash University Centre for Rural Health 1997 ISBN: 0 7326 0930 5
Day, Cassell & Lough, Latrobe Safe Communities: Evaluation of a Local Level Injury
Prevention Program - 1996-2000 – Report 190, Monash University Accident Research
Centre Jan. 2002
www.general.monash.edu au/muarc/pub2002.htm
International commitments:
Study visits:
Stockholm 1994, South Africa 1997, Suwon, Korea & Hong Kong 2000.
Participation in Safe Community conferences:
Norway, 1994; Canada, 1995; Australia, 1996; South Africa, 1997; New Zealand, 1999;
Korea 2002.
Hosting Safe Community Conferences:
SafeComm 5 - Hume/La Trobe; Feb. 1996.
Hosting "Travelling Seminars":
Travelling Seminar in Victoria April 2000.
Notices from mini-travelling Seminar visiting three already accredited Safe Communities!
(City of Melbourne, City of Hume and City of Latrobe) and two communities seeking
accreditation.
Other: Victorian Safe Communities Network
Staff:
Number: 1 plus part-time staff and volunteers.
Professions: Manager, Community Safety Promotion, Full-time:
yes
Permanent: yes
Temporary: currently 3
Organization: Latrobe City (400 plus)
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Advisory Committee to Council
also acts as Local Safety Committee of Victoria Police (15).
General public health/health promotion group: Community Reference
Forums (eg Road safety, Violence, ) and various working parties (sports, older persons
safety, children’s safety).
For further information contact:
Henk Harberts
Manager – Community Safety Promotion
Latrobe City Council
PO Box 345
3844 TRARALGON, Victoria
AUSTRALIA
Phone:+61 3 51 731 506
Fax:+61 3 51 731 558
henkha@latrobe.vic.gov.au
Copyright © 1999-2000 Dept. of Public Health Sciences.
Updated by 
Moa
Sundström, 2002-10-29 14:39.
