Year of Action for Injury Prevention
National Injury Prevention Day just ended — what comes next?
As injury prevention advocates, our momentum must continue forward. This toolkit empowers you to keep the energy of National Injury Prevention Day going all year long. Whether you're looking to connect with others in the field, find and share trusted resources, spotlight effective programs, or start planning for next year's NIPD, this guide offers simple, low-lift ideas to keep the conversation going. Each quarter includes a theme and suggested activities that make it easy to stay visible, foster peer connection, and continue elevating the importance of injury prevention in your community and beyond.
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Goals — Encourage people and organizations to:
- Get/stay connected
- Raise awareness
- Continue advocating for injury prevention
These activities are meant to:
- Be easy + flexible
- Focus on connection and visibility
- Be useful for individuals, teams, and coalitions
- Help build confidence and relationships
- Highlight and spread the research being done in injury prevention
- Encourage you to jump in whenever, and however, you can. Every action helps move the field forward.
Sample Contents
Connection
Timeline: December 2025 – February 2026
Goal: Strengthen connections and celebrate what's working.
Connection has always been a strength of the injury prevention field but right now, it's more important than ever. As funding shrinks and programs shift, some professionals may feel isolated or unsure where to turn for support, resources, or collaboration. Taking time to reconnect helps us share what's working, amplify each other's voices, and remind ourselves that we're part of something bigger. Building and sustaining relationships across organizations, sectors, and communities strengthens the field and keeps injury prevention visible, supported, and resilient.
Suggested Activities
- General: Sign the Year of Action for Injury Prevention Pledge
- Advocacy: Sign up for Advocacy Action Alerts through the Keep America Safe Coalition
- Start Planning for NIPD 2026: Put National Injury Prevention Day 2026 (Nov 18th) on your calendar now and block time to start planning
- Social Media & Communications: Update your LinkedIn profile, join injury prevention groups, engage with others in the field
- Personal Connections: Reach out to 3 other people or organizations who participated in NIPD
More ideas and detailed activities are included in the complete toolkit.
Discovery & Sharing
Timeline: March 2026 – May 2026
Goal: Discover and share the people, programs, and resources that are making a difference so we can lift up each other, strengthen the field, and grow the visibility of injury prevention together.
In Quarter 1, we focused on connection by reaching out, finding our people, and starting conversations. In Quarter 2, we build on that while we shift to discovery and sharing. There's powerful work happening across the injury prevention field—innovative programs, valuable tools, and passionate people—but we don't always know where to find them or how to amplify their efforts.
Suggested Activities
- Resource Discovery & Curation: Gather 3–5 key resources and organize them in a shared folder with your team
- Social Media & Communication: Highlight new tools, share quotes from webinars, feature partner resources
- Outreach & Advocacy: Share insights with community partners or policymakers, reach out to lawmakers
- Planning for NIPD 2026: Create or update a folder of NIPD assets you may want to use again
More ideas and detailed activities are included in the complete toolkit.
Invite & Expand
Timeline: June 2026 – August 2026
Goal: Bring new people into the conversation and help amplify the work of others across the injury prevention field.
By this point in the year, you've been building connections and sharing resources within your existing network. In Quarter 3, we turn outward: it's time to invite new people into the work, especially those outside of traditional injury prevention roles, and to intentionally amplify others in the field.
Suggested Activities
- Connection & Outreach: Invite partners from outside traditional injury prevention spaces to collaborate
- Storytelling & Visibility: Spotlight someone in the field, share reflections, reshare stories from others
- Policy & Advocacy: Invite lawmakers to visit your site, prep explanations of your funding impact
- Planning for NIPD 2026: Identify and invite new partners, host brainstorming sessions, start reaching out for green lighting requests
More ideas and detailed activities are included in the complete toolkit.
Elevate & Activate
Timeline: September 2026 – November 2026
Goal: Show up, speak out, and help make National Injury Prevention Day visible and powerful.
Throughout the year, you've been building relationships, sharing resources, and expanding awareness of injury prevention. Now, it's time to put that work into action and help make National Injury Prevention Day (NIPD) on November 18 a moment of collective visibility and impact.
Suggested Activities
- Communications & Visibility: Share teaser posts, schedule social media posts, update profile banners, create videos
- Partner Coordination: Finalize your NIPD plan with partners, check in with collaborators
- Internal Readiness: Organize toolkits and graphics, draft your story, meet with your team
More ideas and detailed activities are included in the complete toolkit.