Please join us on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET. No registration is required – use this link to join.
Promoting the safety and wellbeing of children is, of course, a public health concern - but it isn’t ONLY in the domain of state health departments! The work that all of us are doing to prevent injury, promote mental health, and build systems that protect the most vulnerable doesn’t always live neatly within the borders of the public agency where we are employed. Often, cross-agency collaboration is essential to collecting key data, building capacity, and implementing strategies that are impactful and well-received.
In this State Technical Assistance Webinar (STAW) we will learn about the Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center (SPTAC)’s “Levels of Collaboration” framework1, which is part of the Prevention Collaboration in Action Toolkit. Next, we will hear from Children’s Safety Network’s Child Safety Learning Collaborative (CSLC) members who understand the necessity of partnering with other state agencies and have incorporated cross-agency collaboration into their data collection, communication, and programmatic strategies. CSLC state teams will describe why they have decided to partner with other state agencies, what the collaboration process looks like, and how this benefits the landscape of injury prevention, health promotion, and safety for children and adolescents in their states.
1. Prevention Collaboration in Action was developed under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies task order. Reference #HHSS283201200024I/HHSS28342002T.
Presenter:
Clare Grace Jones
Senior Training and Technical Assistance Associate
CSLC Co-Manager, Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention
Clare Grace Jones, technical assistance associate, is a public health and safety expert specializing in capacity building, instructional design, training, quality improvement, project support, and virtual engagement. As a community prevention specialist, she has 17 years of experience promoting public health, with a focus on substance misuse prevention and the Strategic Prevention Framework.
Jones advances health, behavioral health, safety, and injury and violence prevention initiatives through her roles with the Children’s Safety Network, as the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention Topic Lead and through her work with the Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center and the Collaborative for Promoting Healthy Out-of-School Time. Previously, she worked for EDC’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technology.
Before joining EDC, Jones held positions in state and community health agencies including state and regional training and TA provider, direct service provider, director of prevention services, state-level capacity coach, and project manager.
She holds an MEd in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a BA in Elementary and Deaf Education from Flagler College.