The HEALU Network presents a summit on Creating Safe and Healthy Communities:  Healthy Land Use Planning, Community Engagement, and Zoning this Thursday, September 13^th  at The California Endowment in Los Angeles.

Igniting Change from the Ground Up: Uplifting Best Practices for Community Organizing and Leadership Engagement will focus on tools and resources communities have utilized to build a strong base of support and mobilize leaders around efforts that advance health and equity. Presenters will highlight best practices from both urban and rural communities around the country. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about engagement techniques for cultivating leadership, approaches for fostering community ownership, and action-oriented strategies that support policy and systems change rooted in partnership. 

Part II - Cultivating Our Roots: Leveraging a Gendered and Cultured Lens to Advance Community Strategies to Improve Population Wide Mental Health and Wellbeing

Part I - Back to Our Roots: Exploring the History of Community Mental Health and Identifying Strategies to Advance Population Wide Mental Health and Wellbeing

The UC Berkeley Schools of Public Health and Social Welfare invite you to join Prevention Institute Founder Larry Cohen on Tuesday, November 28, for an evening of refreshments, great conversation and selected readings from Prevention Diaries: The Practice and Pursuit of Health for All.

Join PI’s Rachel Bennett for a Webinar: Tackling Gentrification and Displacement in Creating Vibrant Communities on November 15, 2017 at 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific

This HJA webinar will feature representatives from the Prevention Institute, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and YouthAlive! as we unpack state and local level strategies to systematize the health approach to violence prevention. 

Prevention Institute (PI) looks forward to seeing colleagues new and old at the annual APHA conference in in Atlanta Nov 4 to Nov 8, 2017. 

IN THE FIRST PLACE – PREVENTION MATTERS by Larry Cohen, founder of Prevention Institute, Oakland, California. Author of Prevention Diaries: The Pursuit of Health for All The author will share strategies and tools for achieving health, safety, and equity in the first place, and excerpts from his book which describes the daily life that shapes our health, and amplifies the critical need to shift our focus in health from after-the-fact to community-level true prevention.

Please consider attending the 2017 Community Intelligence Making Connections Conference at the California Endowment on Monday 10/9/2017. This year's theme is My Brother’s Keeper Initiatives: Uplifting Men and Boys & Women and Girls of Color in California.