The Child Fatality Prevention Act establishes the Colorado Child Fatality Prevention System (CFPS), a statement, multidisciplinary, multi-agency effort to prevent child deaths.
CFPS is housed at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) in the Violence and Injury Prevention – Mental Health Promotion Branch of the Prevention Services Division. The CFPS is based on a public health approach to the prevention of injury and violence-related fatalities of children ages 0-17 that occur in the state of Colorado.
Through individual case-specific reviews of these deaths, specific risk and protective factors are identified that can be mitigated or enhanced through best practices and evidence-based interventions to prevent infant, child, and youth deaths. State and local partners implement and evaluate these interventions to prevent future fatalities from occurring in Colorado.
Please contact Lina Stanchev at lstanchev@adamscountyco.gov or at 303.378.7703 with any questions.
