Prevention Institute

12/10/2024

Racial justice is a public health issue and the driver for social and structural transformation.



https://youtu.be/FrB4w1vmAnM

11/20/2024

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives lost to violence and discrimination and reflect on the ongoing struggles faced by transgender and nonbinary communities. The public health field must center health equity and racial justice in our work—ensuring all trans and gender-nonconforming folks, especially those of color, have access to safety and care.

Together, let’s commit to healing, solidarity, and building a future where every life can thrive.

11/18/2024

We will continue to center our work in community practice and community-driven solutions.

We will continue to uplift contextual and experiential evidence from communities that disproportionately experience the biggest burden of illness and injury.

We will continue to push for health equity, including by fighting for racial justice.

We draw great comfort in knowing that all our partners share the same convictions to remain true to their vision, values, and purpose.

🔗https://www.preventioninstitute.org/timeline-of-resistance

11/11/2024

Starting in childhood and throughout our lives, we hear stories that teach us how to live and what we are told we can and cannot do. These stories are entrenched with powerful ideas and themes.

These stories create narratives.

Narratives define what we imagine is possible and why, what we aspire to become and how, and whether we feel we have power with or over others—or none at all.

Learn more about resources, tools, and case examples to apply the racial justice principles to violence prevention narrative change, framing, and communications: https://preventioninstitute.org/health-equity-practice/module-2-narrative-change-framing-and-communications

11/05/2024

There's a reason why access to arts & culture is an essential factor in our THRIVE Model for fostering healthy communities. It's not just about well-being; it's about resilience and connection. We invite you to pause for a moment and explore our Timeline of Resistance playlist.

Engage with the transformative power of art and reflect on its role in building stronger, more equitable communities ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3CAGF2SHzJ3sBdBBiANXst?si=7fe295006bf64d61

10/30/2024

Our Intersections partners in South OC, led by Providence Mission Hospital, focused on creating community-driven collaborative structures to advance equity.

Watch to learn more about their work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3NgAgfRF4I

This video highlights the work of the Intersections partnership in South OC (San Juan Capistrano), California. The partners in South OC, led by Providence Mi...

10/28/2024

Translating theory into practical approaches can be challenging, especially for health equity and racial justice.

But we're here to help! Our comprehensive tools, like the Health Equity in Practice modules, include effective prevention strategies to promote safety, health, and wellbeing. Together, let's bridge the gap between theory and practice for a healthier, more equitable future!

Learn more: https://preventioninstitute.org/health-equity-in-practice

10/24/2024

Our partners in the High Desert, led by Providence St. Mary Medical Center and Global Institute for Public Strategies, focused on re-envisioning a revitalized High Desert by building partnerships to advance housing, education, and economic development policy priorities.

Watch to learn more about their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTNuPXrRjvc

This video highlights the work of the Intersections partnership in the High Desert (Victorville/Adelanto), California. The partners in the High Desert, led b...

10/17/2024

Learn how our partners in Eureka, led by Westside Community Improvement Association, are handling critical issues of housing availability and affordability.

By integrating workforce development with innovative local planning policies, they are not just enhancing access to safe and stable housing but also promoting overall community health.

Join us in supporting initiatives that create healthier, more equitable environments for all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUwG-gTIZCs

This video highlights the work of the Intersections partnership in Eureka, California. The partners in Eureka, led by Westside Community Improvement Associat...

10/17/2024

🍿🎬 Join us and partners on Thursday, October 24, 6 pm ET, for a virtual film screening and discussion of "Warrior Women."

The film highlights the efforts of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, where activists fought for Native liberation with pride in their heritage. It focuses on Madonna Thunder Hawk, an AIM leader who, along with her daughter Marcy, created the "We Will Remember" Survival School, offering a Native alternative to government-run education.

Register today: cf060d8a-e131-41fe-8bc2-48db0dec7137@7b326d24-41ad-4f57-bc60-89e4a6ac721b" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cf060d8a-e131-41fe-8bc2-48db0dec7137@7b326d24-41ad-4f57-bc60-89e4a6ac721b

10/14/2024

Over the past three years, we have worked to strengthen the relevance and effectiveness of public health strategies to advance racial justice and health equity within the field.

Listen to our podcast episode hosted by PI Director Ruben Cantu as he talks with PI staff members La’Quana Williams (Associate Program Director) and Alberto Espiricueta (Program Assistant) on their journey to accomplish this goal.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/advancing-a-system-of-prevention-for-racial/id1457110871?i=1000664061653

This episode was made possible with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Podcast Episode · Moving Upstream · 08/01/2024 · 31m

10/11/2024

This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we know that safety and healing are possible.

Safety and Healing in Networks of Equity (SHINE) is a California-based project, supported by the Blue Shield of California Foundation and co-created with a Learning Community of five collaboratives. The collaboratives have been building community leadership and power for safety through advocacy for housing and economic justice, holistic youth and family support, and community-based intergenerational healing.

Learn more about how these groups are transforming community environments so that populations harmed by structural inequities and domestic violence have equitable access to conditions for safety and healing. https://preventioninstitute.org/projects/safety-and-healing-networks-equity-shine

10/10/2024

Happy ! We believe every person and community should THRIVE. Our THRIVE Model assesses the status of community conditions and prioritizes them for action to improve health, safety, and health equity.



Learn more about the tool:

THRIVE enables communities to determine how to improve health and safety, and promote health equity. It is a framework for understanding how structural drivers, such as racism, play out at the community level in terms of the social-cultural, physical/built, and economic/ educational environments. We...

10/08/2024

This summer, the Strategies for Youth and Neighborhood Centered (SYNC) Safety project team gathered in Houston to discuss promising strategies for safer communities!

SYNC is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-supported project focused on increasing the capacity of Black- and Brown-led community-based organizations to take a public health and health equity-focused approach to preventing violence.

Watch the recap video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YSQrkcGH3o

This past June, Prevention Institute, We-Collab , and our partners convened the inaugural meeting of the SYNC Safety learning community. SYNC (Strategies for...

10/02/2024

We thank Governor Newsom for signing AB 3089 (Jones-Sawyer) into law, formally acknowledging and apologizing for the State of California’s role in upholding chattel slavery and its impact, particularly on Black Californians. An apology is only a start to reconciliation and repair for Black Californians.

While we are pleased by Governor Newsom’s historic action to advance reparations in California, we are disappointed in his veto of SB 1050 (Bradford), which would have provided redress for people who had their property unjustly taken from them via racially-motived uses of eminent domain.

We urge California’s leaders to champion antiracist solutions that truly support health equity, redress past racist policy, and carry out the state’s official commitment to restoration and repair. Prevention Institute remains steadfast in our commitment to join Black-led organizations in efforts to advance repair, racial justice, and health equity.

Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/12006819/california-to-issue-apology-for-slavery-as-newsom-signs-reparations-bills

Advocates say California's first-year reparations plan for Black residents fell short of expectations, but voters will decide its future in November.

09/24/2024

There's still time to join us next Tuesday, October 1, 12 pm ET, to learn about the Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRCN).

The TRCN Commissioning initiative will help community leaders in North America and worldwide learn how to organize a TRCN, facilitate and strengthen its operations, and develop and continually improve strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience.

Register today: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0EdXduwt0CzhyJYGoMEP2Uy__tUBhUOTgvtDmlBhE9pRejA/viewform

09/18/2024

From record heat waves, storms, wildfires, droughts, floods, and other disasters, to increasing disruptions to the ecological, social, and economic systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs, incomes, health, and other basic needs, the global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity (C-E-B) crisis is rapidly escalating. The crisis is an unprecedented public health emergency that will produce radically more and different types of mental health and psychosocial problems than society has ever experienced.

Individualized mental health services cannot address the pervasive traumas speeding our way. A public health approach must be used in neighborhoods and communities to strengthen everyone’s capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities.

Join us for a webinar on October 1, 12:00 pm ET to learn about the "Race to Resilience" campaign and how you can engage your community in strengthening its response to climate-related mental health issues.

Register today: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0EdXduwt0CzhyJYGoMEP2Uy__tUBhUOTgvtDmlBhE9pRejA/viewform

09/12/2024

Learn how agencies and organizations address social isolation and loneliness with a focus on priority populations who faced isolation even before the pandemic and groups at higher risk for su***de and trauma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_c6FokE_i8

From COVID-19 to social and racial injustices to hurricanes and flooding, our communities have experienced a series of traumas that have strained our mental ...