Next Tuesday, April 14th, PI's Lisa Fujie Parks will participate in a panel discussion hosted by Cities United: "Community Violence & #COVID19: Confronting 2 Public Health Crises.”

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Please join Prevention Institute on this webinar to learn more about the Built Environment Policy Advocacy Fund (BEPAF), a program funded by First 5 LA. Through the BEPAF, Prevention Institute will award one-year grants to community based organizations, policy advocacy networks, and coalitions working in First 5 LA’s Best Start geographic areas to advocate for parks and open space, transportation and mobility, and food security.

Join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 4 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities.

On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 we will convene a diverse set of professionals to explore opportunities, actions and strategies that can be utilized to Uplift Men and Boys of Color (MBOC) and accomplish My Brothers Keeper (MBK) objectives in California. Speakers include public health and mental health practitioners, non-profit organizations, health departments, policy-makers, funders, artists, community advocates, law enforcement and probation, researchers, school personnel, local elected officials and youth.

On Monday, October 7, 2019, we are convening a diverse set of professionals to explore opportunities, actions and strategies that can be utilized to Uplift Women and Girls of Color in California. Speakers include public health and mental health practitioners, film-makers, non-profit organizations, health departments, policy-makers, funders, artists, community advocates, law enforcement and probation, researchers, school personnel, local elected officials and youth.

Please join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 3 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities. Part 3 will explore what it takes to ensure high-quality, equitable community engagement in land use and infrastructure-related efforts.

Please join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 2 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities. Part 2 will explore crucial but overlooked challenges facing small cities and under-resourced communities, like the need to compete against larger and wealthier cities for grant dollars, the lack of sustained funding for community-based organizations to facilitate engagement and monitor highly-technical implementation processes, and a system that often favors “shovel-ready” projects over investing in long-term community capacity. Speakers will also reflect on what’s working well and how together we can build capacity in under-resourced communities across LA County and beyond.

Please join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 1 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities.

Recently, the LA County Board of Supervisors voted to officially establish and fund the Office of Violence Prevention. In May 2018, the LA County Department of Public Health engaged Prevention Institute to plan and host a series of community engagement activities along with a set of subject matter expert interviews designed to find out the current state of violence prevention efforts across LA County. At the end of these activities and interviews, PI prepared a Stakeholder Perspectives Report with key findings and recommendations.

To honor MLK Jr’s dream of racial justice and social equity, the Greenlining Institute, Prevention Institute, Community Intelligence, members of the Greenlining Coalition and members the Healthy, Active, Equitable, Land Use Network are joining forces to present an MLK Jr. Day workshop.