Criteria and Process for Re-application as a Safe Community of the WHO Safe Community Network.
SCFNZ is a certifying centre for the Safe Communities Network and on behalf of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion can support your re-application process. If you wish to re-apply through the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion visit www.phs.ki.se/csp/who_safe_communities_member_en.htm
In order to be re-designated as a Safe Community of the WHO Safe Community Network, communities are required to meet the following six criteria:
- An infrastructure based on partnership and collaborations, governed by a cross-sectional group that is responsible for safety promotion in their community.
- Long-term, sustainable programmes covering both genders and all ages, environments, and situations.
- Programmes that target high-risk groups and environments, and programmes that promote safety for vulnerable groups.
- Programmes that document the frequency and causes of injuries.
- Evaluation measures to assess programmes, processes and effects of changes.
- Ongoing participation in national and international Safe Communities networks.
- For additional information on the criteria see www.safecommunities.org.nz/becoming/accred/view
Process: Safe Community re-designation
The application for continued membership to become a Safe Community has to be within five years of the previous designation. A community should contact SCFNZ 2-6 months before this to indicate their committment to apply for re-designation. The process for re-designation requires an application report from the Safe Community, and a site visit. The re-application report should include:
- Application fee ($3000 NZ dollars+ GST) paid to SCFNZ. The application fee covers travel and accomodation costs associated with site visits, and designation ceremony (including the provision of a flag and plaque) and the international peer review process.
- A report describing the safety promotion/injury prevention activities in the “community” organised around each of the six criteria. Applicants need to describe/define the “communities” they are working with, in the context of their own environment. No universal definition is implied by the use of the word “community” within the criteria, but mostly it has been applied to a geographical area. SCFNZ is available to support communities as they develop this application.
- The application for continued membership to become a Safe Community has to be lodged at least one month before a site visit can be arranged. A shorter text for inclusion in both the WHO Collaborating Centre on community safety and SCFNZ webpage is also required. Please note that your application will be available for international peer review through SCFNZ and the Karolinska website. For instructions and additional information on the format for the text to be included on the website see, www.safecommunities.org.nz/becoming/wtr
Send five hard copies including all appendices of which one is to be unbound and one electronic copy (including appendices) of the application to:
Dr Carolyn Coggan, Director
Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand
Box 331399, Takapuna
North Shore 0740, New Zealand
.coggan@scfnz.org.Applications should be addressed to:
Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand, Certifying Centre of the WHO Safe Community Network
Site visit: A representative from SCFNZ will make the on-site visit to review your programme and application. Emphasis is given to how your community has achieved each of the six criteria and needs to include:
- a meeting with the cross-sectional group that is responsible for the safety promotion/injury prevention programme in your community; and
- a field visit with community groups/agencies that are responsible for initiatives and other relevant activities relating to injury prevention and safety promotion in your community. arranged at a time and place suitable to both your community and the WHO representative.
Once all the above have been satisfactorily completed, a designation ceremony is arranged at a time and place suitable to both your community and WHO representative. In addition to the requirement specified by the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety the group also needs to agree to: make an announcement celebrating their designation; and after receiving designation, work with SCFNZ staff as part of their ongoing commitment to international and national safe communities network.