Prevention Institute's Community Prevention Readiness Self-Assessment is a tool that allows groups to be proactive and conduct a candid evaluation of their current capacity to engage in environmental change. Key elements of the assessment include: taking a comprehensive approach, building a strong collaboration, fostering strong interdisciplinary partnerships, identifying core leadership, advancing health equity, and building capacity among staff and partners.

The original Community Centered Health Homes paper, released in 2011, describes the importance of integrating community prevention and clinical care in today’s healthcare environment, and introduces the CCHH model as a strategy for healthcare organizations interested improving community conditions.

Prevention Institute's Founder Larry Cohen chronicles the history of anti-smoking efforts, and how he helped guide a new approach that has resulted in policy and legislative changes. See how prevention efforts, like banning smoking in public places, promoting healthy eating and preventing violence, can result in healthier, happier communities.

Prevention Institute chapter, Traffic Injury Prevention: A 21st Century Approach, published in Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research, describes opportunities in the authorization of the federal transportation bill to promote safety for all travelers.

Illuminates the opportunities and barriers transportation policy creates for building healthy communities.

This document highlights neighborhood-level changes to the built environment that can have a positive influence on the health of community residents, especially in low-income communities. The profiles demonstrate how health practitioners, community members and many others can work together to improve community well-being by making changes to the built environment.

Read our recommendations for swift action and investments that will improve health and safety for all Californians. In this platform, we propose investments that promote equity, a healthy environment, and healthy people, and make the case that stimulus dollars should lift up communities that need it the most: communities of color and low-income communities with high rates of chronic illness, limited access to healthy food, disproportionately fewer opportunities for physical activity, and unequal access to safe parks, schools, and health resources. Download the document below for our full

What clinicians need to know (and do) to prevent intimate partner violence from occurring in the first place.

Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention practice through a range of social and health issues, including chronic disease, HIV, violence, and mental health.

This report delineates opportunities for creating a synergistic movement between health and sustainable agriculture, in order to strenthen the momentum for a just, sustainable health-promoting foood system.