The 2015 UNITY City Network convening event was the largest yet, with 70 representatives of 23 cities coming together to develop new skills and renew connections. Participants learned to use the Collaboration Multiplier tool to prevent violence and visited the REACH Ashland Youth Center to see multi-sector collaboration in action. Read this summary for event highlights and an overview of multi-sector strategies in UNITY cities. Mayor Libby Schaaf welcomed the UNITY City Network to Oakland.

This workbook draws on the experiences and lessons of numerous communities working to advance place-based prevention efforts. It is designed to guide community health practitioners who want to learn more about the role of community culture in environmental change efforts.

The places where we live, work, learn and play affect our health, but not all communities support healthy outcomes, equally. Decisions about the built environment - such as land use, zoning, and community design - have implications for neighborhood access to healthy food, safe places for physical activity and resident experiences of real and perceived violence. In the book Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability (edited by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J. Jackson), chapter contributors Manal J. Aboelata, Leah Ersoylu, Larry

Prevention Institute's Community Prevention Readiness Self-Assessment is a tool that allows groups to be proactive and conduct a candid evaluation of their current capacity to engage in environmental change. Key elements of the assessment include: taking a comprehensive approach, building a strong collaboration, fostering strong interdisciplinary partnerships, identifying core leadership, advancing health equity, and building capacity among staff and partners.

Illuminates the opportunities and barriers transportation policy creates for building healthy communities.

This document highlights neighborhood-level changes to the built environment that can have a positive influence on the health of community residents, especially in low-income communities. The profiles demonstrate how health practitioners, community members and many others can work together to improve community well-being by making changes to the built environment.

Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention practice through a range of social and health issues, including chronic disease, HIV, violence, and mental health.

This publication provides effective primary prevention activities to reduce the incidence of sexual violence, emphasizing the importance of changing social norms.

This publication summarizes the efforts of 11 organizations advocating for improvements in food and activity environments within predominantly low-income neighborhoods and with African American and Latino residents.

Produced for The Physician's Guide to Preventing Intimate Partner Violence, Prevention Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention co-authored this chapter on primary prevention of intimate partner violence.