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* Safe Communities is not a program in and of itself. Rather it is a process or a model for communities to use to address it’s injury programs. It’s designed to be flexible to allow communities to focus on their most pressing injury problems and come up with strategies and programs to reduce those problems. The Safe Communities model works best when the process is conducted by a broad based community coalition that looks closely at local injury data to define prevention interventions. In most communities, data shows that motor vehicle crashes are a leading injury prevention issue. * The Safe Communities approach looks at both reducing the number of injuries, as well as reducing the costs of injuries to the community and its residents. By tracking the money saved when injuries are reduced, coalitions can clearly show health providers, local leaders, businesses, and the public that resources given to injury prevention produce a profitable return on investment to the community. Coalitions can forge potent alliances with a wide variety of organizations, resulting in increased resources and a growing number of profitable public/private partnerships. Safe Communities can be set up to target a neighborhood, a school district, a community, a county or a region where residents are actively involved in addressing their own local injury problems and in implementing effective programs. * The Safe Communities model was first used by the World Health Organization as a means to address injury reduction in 1989. In the mid 1990s, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration adopted and adapted the model as a means to assist communities in addressing their transportation- related injury problems at the local level. The approach has grown from a handful of coalitions in 1996 to nearly 1,000 Safe Communities actively working on motor vehicle injury prevention across the U.S. * For over a century, we disguised the way we thought of traffic crashes and the resulting i