This resource guide for public health departments and coalitions outlines the steps involved in forging successful community prevention partnerships with local businesses.

In this essay, UNITY Co-Chair Deborah Prothrow-Stith calls on criminal justice to partner with public health and work together to prevent violence before it occurs. Part of The Sentencing Project's 25th anniversary compilation, Deborah's essay calls for a different approach to public safety and shares recommendations that could improve the criminal justice system.

The circumstances of where and how you are born, grow up, live, work and grow old shape your health. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's issue brief, Exploring the Social Determinates of Health-Violence, Social Disadvantage and Health, documents the way in which the environments we live in work to influence our learning of violence. The article highlights the Prevention Institute's UNITY Policy Platform as an example of a promising strategy to prevent violence by addressing the social factors that make some communities more susceptible to violence than others. Also highlighted is Prevention

Listen to Prevention Institute's Linda Shak, Program Manager, as she discusses prevention models currently working in the state of California on a Government Action Communications Institute podcast. A growing number of California communities are already focused on community prevention - directing their efforts to keep people healthy in the first place. Research increasingly shows that the places where people live, work, learn, and play, influence and shape the health and safety of residents. Listen to more related podcasts here.

Listen to Prevention Institute's Ann Whidden, Program Manager, on a Government Action and Communications Institute podcast, as she talks about the benefits of community prevention: prevention saves lives, money, helps business, and builds health equity. Download the file, and find more related podcasts here.

The "Social and Economic Costs of Violence-Workshop Summary" released by the Institute of Medicine presents a comprehensive framework for thinking about the impact of violence, exploring costs beyond the direct economic effects of violence. In the Institute of Medicine publication, Rachel Davis, Project Director for UNITY, makes the case for violence prevention as the single most effective way to promote economic development. In addition, UNITY Co-Chair Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith highlights the importance of understanding the definition of violence within its cultural context in performing

NPT Reports: Children's Health Crisis - Prevention explores what will it take to improve the health of all children in Tennessee. Through conversations with health care professionals, parents and policy makers, the documentary explores a view of health that extends beyond medical care; where healthy lifestyle choices are accessible, affordable and a part of every day life. Prevention Institute's Executive Director Larry Cohen is featured.

Proponents of community health are constantly being asked to make the case, for example, for increasing access to safe parks, improving air quality, or creating a community program to prevent violence. Our Prevention Playing Cards include frameworks, images, and quotes to help increase your understanding of prevention, community health, and health equity—and prepare you to articulate a primary prevention approach when talking with friends and coworkers, or presenting to community leaders and policy makers. This is a full set of standard playing cards. . Get started using the cards Download the

This memo, prepared by Prevention Institute and The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, provides background information on prevention as effective strategy for reducing health and safety inequities, as well as recommendations for next steps.