To provide optimal trauma care and services to the people in North Carolina by:

• Facilitating injury prevention activities; enhancing knowledge of and education about the trauma system

• Monitoring and improving quality of care

• Identifying resources to meet system needs

• Facilitating research that enhances evidence-based practice

• Ensuring that quality trauma care is available for under-served and special needs populations through expansion of and equitable utilization of existing resources

• Collaborating with agencies with similar interests.