Offers a framework for creating food and activity environments in neighborhoods and institutions that will motivate and support families to adopt healthy behaviors.

Though this brief primarily views the built environment through a public health lens, it also describes built environment issues from the perspective of environmental justice, sustainable food systems, economic development, equity, and climate change.

This brief from the Convergence Partnership delineates crosscutting strategies that have the potential to engage diverse constituencies and address a diversity of issues that impact healthy eating and active living.

Published in The Fourth R, this article is designed to foster the relationship between conflict resolution and violence prevention.

This paper delineates how intentional and unintentional injury prevention practitioners can more effectively collaborate to promote safer environments and further reduce incidence of injury.

This policy brief presents the distilled research and critical thinking of a diverse group of local and national experts in the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Prevention Institute assembled this team and coordinated their efforts with the generous funding and support of the Ms. Foundation for Women. This brief focuses on strategies that hold the greatest promise for transforming communities and preventing child abuse and exploitation.

The UNITY RoadMap is a resource for cities to prevent violence before it occurs by mapping out solutions to effectively and sustainably prevent violence. The UNITY RoadMap 1) helps cities understand the current status of their efforts (starting point), 2) describes the core elements necessary to prevent violence before it occurs (milestones), and 3) provides information, resources, and examples to support cities in planning, implementation, and evaluation. As a framework, the UNITY RoadMap is most effective when tailored to the needs of a particular city. Browse the online version of the UNITY

An article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlighting Prevention Institute's collaborative six-part satellite training series on preventing youth violence.

Prevention Institute collaborated with the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation to develop this plan, which addresses the need to reduce the societal demand for commercial and individual exploitation of children.