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This blog post is an expanded exploration of ideas discussed during a Children’s Mental Health Network webinar on July 14th, 2020. The webinar, which was moderated by Prevention Institute, highlighted the work of mental health advocates in Kankakee, IL, New Orleans, LA, and Native communities across Oklahoma.
The time is right for the public health and prevention field—including governmental public health and all the others who are engaged in and care about this area—to take a fresh look at what we do and how we do it. The innovative steps that communities and practitioners have taken to advance health must be deliberately integrated into a comprehensive new way of promoting the health of the public. To be as effective as we need to be, we must take into account the 21st-century health, equity, and safety needs that communities face. So what will it take to leverage more opportunities that move in
Welcome to our media digest for the week ending November 13, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.
Welcome to our media digest for the week ending December 4, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.
More than ever before, people understand violence as a preventable public health issue. This publication sheds light on how UNITY helped shift the paradigm around community violence and what cities can do about it. Since UNITY started in 2005, for example, a sample of large U.S. cities report: Increased public health involvement in efforts to address violence affecting youth. Improved collaboration and engagement across sectors and with communities most impacted by violence. Enhanced city-wide strategic planning to address violence. More attention to preventing violence before it occurs, i.e