Please join us on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET. No registration is required – use this link to join.
How do you ensure that your public health, prevention, and/or child safety strategies are effective, efficient, and meet the needs of your community? Quality Improvement (QI) is a structured, data-driven process used to systematically enhance services, programs, and systems to better meet your goals and have a bigger impact.
In this STAW, you will learn how to build your own QI toolbox through a step-by-step process that incorporates valuable tools and a clear framework. We will provide examples of how this process can be applied to specific goals and strategies, and what it looks like in action. You will also have the opportunity to hear from a participant from our current cohort in the Child Safety Learning Collaborative (CSLC), who will share their story of how they made use of the QI process to identify drivers, test ideas, and make changes (small and large) to improve their process and outcomes.
Presenter:
Jenny Stern-Carusone
Associate Director, Children’s Safety Network
Jenny Stern-Carusone has over 20 years experience as a prevention professional, designing and providing technical assistance to state agencies, tribal governments, community-based organizations, schools and juvenile justice departments to improve prevention strategies and service delivery by customizing approaches to address clientele’s unique needs.
As Associate Director at the Children’s Safety Network, Ms. Stern-Carusone builds the capacity of states and jurisdictions to use data and evidence-based strategies to reduce injury-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits. She leads a quality improvement learning collaborative to improve child safety through rapid cycle tests of change and sustainably spreading evidence-based practices. Ms. Stern-Carusone has presented at national conferences on child and adolescent injury prevention, systems improvement, youth mentoring and juvenile justice reform. Additional expertise includes online event design and implementation, including adult learning principles and webinar production in multiple platforms.
She holds an MSW from Portland State University, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Oregon.