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This report summarizes the 2017 PreventConnect web conference series and represents directions for the field of sexual and domestic violence prevention. It draws together high-level themes that unify the series as a whole, and provides key findings from each of the eight web conferences, allowing the ideas, examples, and resources from the web conferences to live on in written form.

Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys is leveraging the power of communities and connection to shift policies, practices, and norms to create greater opportunities for health and resilience. This four-page overview provides details on the partners, strategies, and aims of the initiative.

Recognizing positive early childhood development as an important component of a comprehensive violence prevention strategy, the New Orleans Health Department is working to bridge their community safety and early childhood efforts. Chris Gunther presented on New Orleans’s violence prevention and early childhood work as part of a Cradle to Community panel at the 2016 American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. This narrative is excerpted from his remarks.

Due to the tireless work of a broad based coalition, from 2000 - 2008, the number of lead poisoned children in Monroe County was reduced by 72% from 1,293 to 363. Monroe County is well on the way to becoming one of the first and few communities in the nation to eliminate lead hazard.