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We provide tools that drive impactful change and elevate the field of prevention in general.
Our free, interactive online primer helps practitioners build primary prevention and equity into community health.
Provides a set of tools for city leaders to improve violence prevention strategies through effective, ongoing evaluation. Also provides information on available data sources.
This framing brief explores how violence affecting youth has been portrayed in the news, how the issue of race complicates depictions of youth and violence, and how public attitudes about government shape popular support for violence prevention. Written by Berkeley Media Studies Group and commissioned by Prevention Institute and UNITY.
Writing and framing community prevention success stories Keep it local. One of the national conversations has to do with local control and decision making-people worry about someone making decisions for them, or taking their ability to make decisions away. It's critical to emphasize that community prevention is local. No one is telling anyone what to do: community prevention is about helping neighborhoods to work together with local businesses, community groups and local health departments to figure out the best ways to build health where they live-whether that's putting more fruits and
Utilizing The Spectrum of Prevention, this checklist provides a list of actions for the business sector to complete in aiding violence prevention efforts.
Prevention Institute's Larry Cohen is quoted multiple times in this article in the August 2005 issue of The Nation's Health on highway safety.
This Q&A on violence as a public health issue addresses key questions, including: Why is violence a public health issue? Is violence preventable? What is a public health approach to preventing violence? What does public health bring to solving our nation's violence problem? What is the role of public health in efforts to prevent violence? Where can I get more information about advancing a public health approach?