Prevention Institute worked with CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention on Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence (UCEE) to illustrate the value and importance of contextual and experiential evidence alongside best available research evidence.

Prevention Institute’s staff participated on multiple advisory committees and working groups at the local, state, and national levels. In these roles, our staff provided guidance across topics like health equity, mental health, and community violence prevention to various national nonprofits, state governments, and policy advocacy groups. Through this work, we help to advance policy and systems change that is rooted in health equity and prevention.

Such groups include:

Prevention Institute staff shared our work and approach with practitioner audiences at conferences and webinars, including the Association of Black Foundation Executives Annual Conference, the National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Meeting, and with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. PI also hosted a virtual teach-in, which launched PI’s new tool, The Timeline of Resistance.

In 2024, Prevention Institute further grounded our efforts in an affirmative long-term vision of the world we want to inhabit and strengthened our capacity to develop policy and narrative strategies that ask for what communities want and deserve.

Prevention Institute completed the inaugural phase of the People, Parks, and Power (P3) initiative, which brought together 14 community-rooted, power-building organizations to address deep-seated park and green space inequities in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities across the country over two years.