This report - originally commissioned by the County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services - provides strategies to improve nutrition and child development in Los Angeles County.

In an effort to improve health outcomes for children, youth, and families, the City of Salinas joined together with the Violent Injury Prevention Coalition (VIPC) and their foundation, Partners for Peace, to launch a community collaborative planning process.

The First Steps report, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and done in collaboration with Action Alliance for Children and Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, synthesizes a decade's worth of research on violence prevention, and presents best practices, as well as a comprehensive strategy to start effective violence prevention efforts at an early age.

This paper delineates the accomplishments of a state interdisciplinary partnership to support local violence prevention efforts.

This is a version of an article prepared for the University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter that discusses current trends and issues related to impaired driving prevention.

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.

This paper appeared in Environment and Urbanization, and describes the root causes of America's violence problem and proposes a community-based public health approach to violence prevention.

This document serves to build momentum for a national primary prevention strategy to prevent intimate partner violence.

This policy brief presents the distilled research and critical thinking of a diverse group of local and national experts in the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Prevention Institute assembled this team and coordinated their efforts with the generous funding and support of the Ms. Foundation for Women. This brief focuses on strategies that hold the greatest promise for transforming communities and preventing child abuse and exploitation.