This article highlights PI's work helping the City of Milwaukee to create a plan meant to serve as a compass to guide practice, policy and investment to prevent violence. The Wisconsin Law Journal ran the same Associated Press story.
The United Women of East Africa, an organization originally created to serve refugee mothers and their children in San Diego, reached out to other groups in their close-knit community and forged a partnership to address concerns facing young men as part of the Making Connections initiative.
The Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles (VPC) is one of 16 community partnerships across the U.S. selected to participate in Making Connections for Mental Wellbeing Among Men and Boys. The VPC Making Connections initiative focuses on addressing the impact of gang culture and gang violence on mental health and community wellbeing.
PI's Juliet Sims was featured in this article about how to pack a healthy school lunch at an affordable price. Sims notes, "Foods that have the highest profit margin tend to be the ones grocers put at eye level. Often those are the products you want to avoid" since they can be high in sugar, fat and calories."
PI Board Member Howard Pinderhughes is featured in this NBC Bay Area TV segment about the growing opportunity gap in different parts of Oakland. The piece concludes by saying the City is taking a "public health approach to violence."
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