Prevention Institute has deep roots in California, with offices in Oakland and Los Angeles. We collaborate with partners up and down the state, weaving together our core organizational focus areas to advance a shared vision of a healthier, safer and more equitable California. In our experience, strategies that take root here often point the way towards effective approaches to advancing community health nationwide. By building a multi-sector network of prevention partners, we work to capture learnings from one community, health condition, or issue to ensure that successful methods and models for transformation are understood and implemented broadly. Our projects span from consultation with local collaboratives, foundations, and health departments to embed prevention into community initiatives to state-level research and advocacy to ensure health is central to California policy decisions.
Prevention Institute has produced a video that explores the intersection of land use and violence prevention. This video came out of our 2015 Community Safety by Design paper, our 2016 HEALU Network summit in Los Angeles on land use and violence prevention, and a continued exploration of these intersectional issues.
We engage a growing network of multi-sector partners from across the state to act together to change policy and institute organizational practices that make health, safety, and equity a reality in all California communities.
Watch our video chronicling our annual advocacy day in Sacramento where residents from across the state share a powerful message with legislators about why health, safety, and equity policy matters to their community.
This brief outlines four key strategies to move Los Angeles to a healthier, more equitable land use system, and highlights a selection of policy examples and key opportunities.
We provide training, consultation, and strategy development to state and local health departments, public health professionals, community-based organizations, and community members to build capacity to change policies, systems, and environments.
We have a vision for a healthy, safe and equitable California. Watch this two-minute video to learn more about our policy platform, and how you can get involved.
Prevention Institute developed a Safety in All Policies framework and actionable recommendations to advance community safety and violence prevention in California through a multi-sector public health approach. This work builds on the growing base of research and practice evidence and growing attention to Health in All Policies.
HEALU was formed in response to structural barriers to equity in Los Angeles’ land use arena, and in an effort to strategically and collaboratively promote systems change. HEALU augments the role of health in the land use sphere through training, capacity building, convening and proactively advancing key strategies to ensure a healthier, more equitable land use system.
Learn more about Los Angeles County's work to improve community safety, incorporate health into the city of Los Angeles' general plan, improve breastfeeding outcomes, adopt healthy food procurement standards, and partner with local restaurants to promote healthier food.
This publication showcases the nine priority strategies recommended by the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative in California to make communities safer, such as economic opportunity and community cohesion.
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