Learn how communities across the country are using PI’s signature tool in their work.

• The Wellmark Foundation:
  • Used the Spectrum to shape their 2008 funding agenda (PDF), including planning grants, community-based program implementation, organizational capacity-building, and health policy advancement.

• A Program Manual for Child Death Review: Strategies to Better Understand Why Children Die and Taking Action to Prevent Child Deaths (PDF)
  • In this comprehensive manual, the National Center for Child Death Review offers the Spectrum as a tool to aid Child Death Review (CDR) Teams develop comprehensive approaches to predicting, understanding, and preventing injuries to children.

• Building Peace: Overcoming Violence in Communities
  • A book published in December 2004 by the World Council of Churches (WCC) as part of their Risk Series for use in the Decade to Overcoming Violence, adapted the Spectrum to peace-building activities and used it as a base for organizing community efforts.

• Bridging the Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention: A Framework to Inform Decision Making
  • The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies discusses the Spectrum as an approach to supporting healthy eating and active living environments.

• ICAN-NCFR California Death Review Curriculum and Training Manual (PDF)
  • The Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN) and the National Center  on Child Fatality Review (NCFR) use the Spectrum in their Curriculum and Training Manual, Child Death Review in California, a living document dedicated to those who have devoted themselves to the understanding and prevention of child death and serious injury.

• Pacific Islander Health Careers Pipeline Program Report (PDF)
  • The Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance uses the Spectrum in devising policy recommendations to create career opportunities in health professions for Pacific Islanders.

• RCP’s Role in Primary Smoking Prevention Programs

A 2002 article published in RT Magazine, uses the Spectrum as a guide for developing smoking prevention programs and discusses actions that respiratory care practitioners (RCPs) can take to prevent respiratory disease.

• Teen Driving Safety Initiative Solution Matrix (PDF)
  • The city of Grand Junction, Colorado utilized the Spectrum as a framework for their matrix.

• Transitioning to Obesity Prevention: Harnessing WIC’s Success to Promote Healthy Eating and Active Living (PDF)
  • In collaboration with California’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Su pplemental  Nutrition Program, Prevention Institute facilitated a six month policy development process intended to shape California WIC’s direction and priorities for obesity prevention in the coming decade.  Transitioning to Obesity Prevention explores how the WIC community can make the broad environmental changes necessary to support the ability of WIC participants to make healthy choices for themselves and their families, while also considering possible new or strengthened partnerships and collaborations.

• Parent-Child Connectedness in Our Communities (PDF)
  • Released during Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, this report, by Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, emphasizes the power of Parent-Child Connectedness (PCC) to protect against teen pregnancy, among many other adverse adolescent health outcomes.  It suggests that we might better foster connectedness within all families by strengthening environmental supports for parents.  In addition, the report empowers parents with tools to use right now to connect with their children.

• Yakima County's Nurse Family Partnership Plan for Sustainability (PDF)
  • The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), a national nonprofit organization committed to producing enduring improvements in the health and well being of low-income, first-time parents and their children, used the Spectrum as a framework for developing an effective and sustainable evidence-based program of home visiting by registered nurses in Yakima County, Washington.