Presenter Profile
Sarah Beth Abbott, BS, EMT-LP
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
Sarah.Abbott@memorialhermann.org
Sarah Beth Abbott, BS, EMT-LP is the Pediatric Injury Prevention and Outreach Education Coordinator at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, TX. She has experience delivering health education to stakeholders within the local community and has extensive background in program planning, team building and regulatory experience. She received her Bachelor of Science with a focus on Health Education from the University of Houston. She has been appointed to the Injury Prevention and Public Education Committee of the Texas Governor's EMS-Trauma Advisory Council (GETAC) for a three-year term, ending in December 2027. She is the program coordinator for the Injury Free Coalition for Kids – The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – McGovern Medical School (UTH) and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (CMHH).
Presentations
Making your Dollar Stretch in Injury Prevention Programming
Melissa Kwan, MD, FAAP
Sandra McKay, MD, FAAP
Sarah Beth Abbott, BS, EMT-LP
Marisol Nieves, LMSW, CPST
Funding is a challenge for any project, and recently, it seems to have gotten even more complicated with current cuts to budgets that were once considered consistent. For younger faculty and injury prevention professionals, finding funding is even harder as they are developing their experience and contacts. Despite these obstacles, the need for injury prevention outreach continues. Through this workshop, we’d like to take participants through planning and developing resource ideas for a new project or a program that has been in development.
The first part of the workshop is establishing a topic and framework for a specific project by establishing goals, stakeholders, a target audience, timelines, and outcome measures. We will also share common pitfalls and learning opportunities so that others can avoid these same mistakes. Through group discussion, we will also explore ensuring that program development is as equitable as possible and considers as many unintentional consequences as possible.
The second part of the workshop will focus on exploring funding opportunities through traditional and non-traditional avenues. We will also work on drafting initial communications with potential sponsors and discuss possible institutional restrictions and challenges. The focus will be on smaller capital and deliverable resources for pilot projects with the goal of developing them into long-term or recurrent projects with results that can then be used in future proposals for continued support with larger agencies.
1. Construct the framework for a pilot injury prevention program
2. Determine priorities and potential challenges for a pilot injury prevention program
3. Explore funding and resource opportunities for a pilot injury prevention program