The Center for Health and Safety Culture completed a research project sponsored by the Traffic Safety Culture Pooled Fund to understand factors associated with multiple risky driving behaviors and develop and test a brief intervention to reduce these multiple risky driving behaviors and improve overall driving safety.
ParentingMontana.org
ParentingMontana.org strengthens social and emotional skills of parents and their children contributing to healthy, successful lives and reductions in risky behaviors.
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- Child Wellbeing
- Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health
- Problem Gambling
- Social Norms Marketing
- Substance Misuse
- Traffic Safety
- Violence
Preventing and Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) with NACCHO and Local Health Departments
Project summary: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a range of disabilities that can occur when a baby is exposed to alcohol before birth. People with FASDs can have lifelong effects, including problems with behavior and learning as well as physical problems. FASDs are common and estimated to affect up to 1 in 20 U.S. […]
Resources and Tools to Improve Pedestrian Safety
Project summary: Pedestrian fatalities are increasing and account for a growing percentage of all roadway fatalities. This highlights the urgent need for effective interventions. Transportation stakeholders are uniquely positioned to lead efforts to improve pedestrian safety. Stakeholder beliefs and values influence safety (e.g., Prioritizing traffic flow over pedestrian safety can hinder the effective implementation of […]
Understanding Aggressive Driving And Ways to Reduce It Phase 2 – TSC Pooled Fund Project
Status: Ongoing PI: Bridget Hanson Aggressive driving is a topic of interest to most states because it increases crash risk and there is evidence suggesting aggressive driving has been increasing, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic (Office of Behavioral Safety Research, 2021). Aggressive driving is an umbrella term often used to describe a variety of risky […]
Understanding Aggressive Driving and Ways to Reduce It Phase 1 – TSC Pooled Fund Project
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will conduct a literature review to define aggressive driving, formulate a contextual model to explain its occurrence, and develop and implement a survey of road users to identify and differentiate clusters of driving behaviors that are perceived as “aggressive.” This research project is a part of the Traffic Safety Culture Pooled Fund Program. […]
A Review of Methods to Change Beliefs – TSC Pooled Fund Project
Status: Completed This project of the Traffic Safety Culture Transporation Pooled Fund (TSC-TPF) Program and the Center for Health and Safety Culture sought to better understand how beliefs are formed and changed to inform and develop more effective traffic safety culture strategies that seek to change behaviors. The TSC-TPF has been a leader in advancing […]
Traffic Safety Culture Transportation Pooled Fund Program
A cooperative effort of up to 19 state DOTs to increase awareness, understanding, and prioritization of traffic safety culture thereby transforming the culture in pursuit of the Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) vision. A range of projects supporting TZD strategies are funded by this pooled fund. […]
Resources and Tools to Improve Pedestrian Safety – TSC Pooled Fund Project
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will seek to develop resources to assess and grow beliefs among stakeholders to support the deployment of effective strategies to improve pedestrian safety. The project will result in the creation of tools to increase beliefs supportive of pedestrian safety strategies. […]
Montana Marijuana Messaging
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will help MT DPHHS increase awareness of risk factors about the use of marijuana and other addictive substances (nicotine, alcohol, other illicit drugs) among universal, selective, and indicated populations including youth, young adults, and other high-risk populations. […]
ParentingMontana.org
ParentingMontana.org strengthens social and emotional skills of parents and their children contributing to healthy, successful lives and reductions in risky behaviors. […]
Together for Life Utah
A seat belt project applied across the social ecology in nine rural counties in Utah. A positive and hopeful approach to getting people to always wear their seat belt. […]
Washakie County Social Norms Marketing Campaign
A social norms marketing campaign for reducing underage drinking among high school students in Washakie County, WY. A brand, logo, and multi-media tools were created for this campaign, and the brand is extendable to other future community health and safety efforts. […]
The Role of Research in the Developement of Effective Strategies
We develop strategies that transform culture to improve health and safety in organizations and communities. The development of these strategies is based on scientific research to ensure they are valid and effective.
Given the diversity of communities, there are rarely existing solutions that fit the unique culture of a community. Instead, efforts to improve health and safety in a community need to begin with research to understand the local culture and analyze its effect on behavior.
Our research is designed in partnership with the communities we serve to ensure we are addressing the social issues that are most important to them. Such partnerships ensure that the strategies we propose from this research are relevant and supported by these communities.