Experts in injury prevention across Canada recognized that one of the major obstacles to having the injury issue recognized is the lack of a critical mass of knowledgeable practitioners. To address this in a consistent way the Canadian Collaborative Centres for Injury Prevention and Control (CCCIPC) partnered to develop a national injury prevention and control curriculum. Between September 1999 and September 2003 the development and piloting of the bilingual resource, the Canadian Injury Prevention and Control Curriculum (CIPCC), was carried out with funding from Health Canada's Population Health Fund.

In October of 2007 the Canadian Collaborative Centres for Injury Prevention and Control (CCCIPC) decided to change their name to the Canadian Collaborating Centres for Injury Prevention (CCCIP).   Around the same time, and as the course progressed and the facilitators gained field experience, there arose a need to review the content of the curriculum in order to reflect the valuable insights that had been learned.  The CCCIP designated a few of its members as the Revisions Committee to ensure continuous applicability and relevance of the curriculum to the field of injury prevention.

In June 2009, the Revisions Committee produced the 2^nd edition of the curriculum.  The present revised edition has also tightened its focus and reduced the number of lessons from ten to six by integrating the core issues of the last four lessons into the main body, thus allowing the course to be efficiently taught in two days time.  New case scenarios, case studies and a social marketing piece have also been added as well as an expanded section of appendices.