Join your colleagues for the most important prevention science conference of the year! The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 21st Annual Meeting will take place in San Francisco, CA at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, May 28-31, 2013.

The Society for Prevention Research envisions a wellness-oriented society in which evidenced-based programs and policies are continuously applied to improve the health and well-being of its citizens, fostering positive human development and citizens who lead productive lives, in caring relationships with others.

The SPR Annual Meeting provides a unique opportunity to advance this vision by providing a centrally integrated forum for the exchange of new concepts, methods, and results from prevention research and related public health fields; and by providing a forum for the communication between scientists, public policy leaders and practitioners concerning the implementation of evidence-based preventive interventions in all areas of public health.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet and network with more than 800 researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad at the premiere meeting for prevention science!Join your colleagues for the most important prevention science conference of the year! The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 21st Annual Meeting will take place in San Francisco, CA at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, May 28-31, 2013.

The Society for Prevention Research envisions a wellness-oriented society in which evidenced-based programs and policies are continuously applied to improve the health and well-being of its citizens, fostering positive human development and citizens who lead productive lives, in caring relationships with others.

The SPR Annual Meeting provides a unique opportunity to advance this vision by providing a centrally integrated forum for the exchange of new concepts, methods, and results from prevention research and related public health fields; and by providing a forum for the communication between scientists, public policy leaders and practitioners concerning the implementation of evidence-based preventive interventions in all areas of public health.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet and network with more than 800 researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad at the premiere meeting for prevention science!

Register here.

Don't miss PI's Sana Chehimi present on "We're Not Buying It: Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids" on Thursday, May 30, 2013: 1:15 PM-2:45 PM at the Grand Ballroom A (Hyatt Regency San Francisco).

Participation in the Peer Learning Forum is restricted to state and territorial RPE grantees and their local subgrantees, state DELTA FOCUS grantees and their local grantees, state/territorial sexual violence coalitions and state/territorial domestic violence coalitions.

Peer Learning Forums are PreventConnect's newest online forum for sexual violence and domestic violence prevention practitioners to learn from each other to strengthen their prevention work. The Peer Learning Forum is designed to go deeper into prevention topics in a series of three web conferences with a targeted audience. Peer Learning Forums will include use of online resources such as podcasts and eLearning units.

There is growing understanding of the value of implementing population-level strategies to prevent sexual and domestic violence. Many preventionists find themselves in favor of implementing more population-based strategies that shift whole community norms, but without a guide on how to make that shift in their work and in their agency. All too often the field's infrastructures and expertise have been built with a focus on individually-based strategies and there is little space to explore the benefit of work at the community level.
The first Peer Learning Forum will focus on opportunities to use the current infrastructure to build up to more community-level impact. We will also examine what we can learn from other fields and how to make the case for this shift. Together we can raise ideas, critique them and ask each other how we can go further. Join us as we expand the collective wisdom on promising approaches and pitfalls. Participants will engage in a candid conversation with peers and national experts to build capacity for going beyond curriculum.

Hosts: David Lee and Ashley Maier, PreventConnect, CALCASA
Presenters: Annie Lyles and Menaka Mohan, Prevention Institute

Peer Learning Forum Session 1
Bringing Work to Scale: How do we jump from selected to universal?
Tuesday, May 28
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Peer Learning Forum Session 2
Increasing Skills and Capacities for Community Level Work
Thursday, June 13
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Peer Learning Forum Session 3
Integrating Community Will and Engagement Strategies
Thursday, June 27
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Objectives:
By the end of the series, participants will
Have engaged in a candid discussion about the challenges and opportunities of community prevention strategies.
Be able to provide examples of effective approaches and share useful tools from various communities.
Be able to identify potential indicators for measuring the impact of population-based prevention strategies.

What is a Peer Learning Forum?
Peer Learning Forums are PreventConnect's newest online forum for sexual violence and domestic violence prevention practitioners to learn from each other to strengthen their prevention work. The Peer Learning Forum is designed to go deeper into prevention topics in a series of three web conferences with a targeted audience. During each Peer Learning Forum series, participants will use other online resources (such as podcasts or eLearning units) to discuss during subsequent sessions.

What is a Web Conference?
A web conference is an opportunity to attend an online workshop by watching a presentation on your computer screen (using your internet connection) and hearing presenters through your telephone. PreventConnect web conferences feature an opportunity to participate in online question & answer sessions and live text chat between participants. If for some reason you are unable to join on your computer, you can download the presentation slides from our website and listen on your phone.

Real-Time Captioning Available:
Instructions for accessing captioning during this web conference will be provided with your registration confirmation.

Compatibility:
The iLinc web conference software used by Prevent Connect is compatible with both Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® Macintosh® computers. Click here for detailed system requirements.
Conference registrants will receive important information by email about how to access the web conference session. To try to avoid this important message from being blocked by your SPAM filter, please add "emailservice@ilinc.com" to your email address book or allowed-senders list. If you have access to your network firewall, you can also add "ilinc.com" and "calcasa.org" to your allowed-domains list.

CNU is where designers, developers, planners, architects, and advocates of walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods meet. Members come from around the world to discuss development practices and public policies, learn from recent innovative work, and advance new initiatives to transform our communities. For more information and to register, click here.

Note: event time is listed in PST.

The Prevention Fund continues to get targeted for cuts: learn the latest developments from DC, and new ways to illustrate the importance of prevention in all our lives. From survey results to field polls, focus groups to messaging, we'll be discussing how to leverage the groundswell of popular opinion and support for prevention efforts, and how you can achieve maximum impact in your policy and communications efforts. Join us -- register now.

During the Web Forum, presenters will:

• Discuss new prevention messaging including focus groups and survey research conducted for the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;
• Provide an update regarding the Prevention and Public Health Fund; and
• Share findings from California's field poll, and discuss how data and poll findings can be incorporated into legislative outreach and education efforts.

Sponsored by Prevention Institute, the Public Health Institute, and Trust for America's Health.

Presenters

• Laura Segal, MA, Director of Public Affairs, Trust for America's Health
• Richard Hamburg, MPA, Deputy Director, Trust for America's Health
• Ann Whidden, MPH, Director of Communications, Public Health Institute
• Robert Berger, MSJ, Director of CA4Health, Public Health Institute
• Rob Waters, Chief Communications Officer, Prevention Institute

Moderator
Matthew Marsom, Vice President, Public Health Policy and Advocacy, Public Health Institute

Featuring Prevention Institute's Larry Cohen

Upstream Innovations in an Era of Health Reform
In Spring 2013, we are on the precipice of dramatic, disruptive change in the health field that offers an unprecedented opportunity and challenge to transform health care and population health.

We know that traditional public health approaches along with more and better health care are not enough to improve health outcomes, equity, and cost. We must also:

• implement sustainable, fundamental "upstream" changes that address the root causes of disease and disability; and
• transform the way we deliver health care to ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all.

An Upstream Metaphor
People are drowning in a river. Rescue workers are pulling them out but soon realize that no matter how hard they work, there are always more people floating downstream. Someone finally decides to take a walk upstream to see why people are falling into the river in the first place.

"Place-based," "health in all policies," and other initiatives that address the social and environmental determinants of health - the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age - like air quality and access to healthy food, crime and economic opportunity - are focusing on health improvement through upstream interventions.

Initiatives like "medical homes," clinical integration, and care coordination supported by technological advances can complement upstream interventions by transforming the value and quality of health care services and providing a key link back to population health efforts.

Public health, health care, and economic/community development organizations are all striving to develop and implement new ways to partner across sectors and with the community to achieve improved population health, reduce cost, and improve patient experience (the triple aim).

While working upstream and transforming care delivery are compelling needs, they are not easy to achieve. Innovative relationships, strategies and collaborations are required - as is a different kind of leadership - in order to sustain these innovative interventions.

Our 2013 CHL Leadership Conference will focus on: a call to action, skills and vision for focusing on upstream innovation and care transformation.

Please join us in this critical conversation! Visit the Agenda and the Speakers Bios to learn more about this event, or register here.

Note: event time is listed in PST.

This PolicyLink webinar will provide an overview of the "Find Money" section of the Healthy Food Retail Portal and provide examples of specific federal, state, and local resources that can be tapped to create or expand healthy food retail opportunities in underserved communities.

Presenters Include:

• Pamela Porter, Executive Vice President, Strategic Consulting, Opportunity Finance Network
• Christine Fry, Senior Policy Analyst and Program Director, ChangeLab Solutions
• Khanh Nguyen, Portfolio Director - Healthy Living, The Colorado Health Foundation
• Patricia Smith, Senior Policy Advisor, The Reinvestment Fund

Register here.

Note: event time is listed in PST.

To register, please follow this link: http://bwjp.ilinc.com/register/xjhykjm

Description: Healthcare providers play an important role in protecting the safety of their patients by preventing gun violence. This webinar will review the impact of gun violence on families in the United States and discuss evidence-based approaches to gun violence prevention.

Featured Speakers:

• Denise Dowd, MD, MPH, PEM, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Children's Mercy Hospital
• Patrick Tolan, PhD, Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia; Director, Youth-Nex: The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
• Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, Professor of Health Policy and Management; Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
• Moderator: Susan McCormick Hadley, MPH, Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Family Practice and Community Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify policy strategies for reducing gun violence.
2. Identify evidence-based approaches to youth and family violence prevention.
3. Describe ways in which health care providers can engage in active firearm violence prevention in practice.

Free CEU/CMEs are available. Please visit the NHCVA website for more information.

Questions? Please contact Vedalyn DeGuzman.

This webinar is sponsored by the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse

Peer Learning Forums are PreventConnect's newest online forum for sexual violence and domestic violence prevention practitioners to learn from each other to strengthen their prevention work. The Peer Learning Forum is designed to go deeper into prevention topics in a series of three web conferences with a targeted audience. Peer Learning Forums will include use of online resources such as podcasts and eLearning units.

There is growing understanding of the value of implementing population-level strategies to prevent sexual and domestic violence. Many preventionists find themselves in favor of implementing more population-based strategies that shift whole community norms, but without a guide on how to make that shift in their work and in their agency. All too often the field's infrastructures and expertise have been built with a focus on individually-based strategies and there is little space to explore the benefit of work at the community level.
The first Peer Learning Forum will focus on opportunities to use the current infrastructure to build up to more community-level impact. We will also examine what we can learn from other fields and how to make the case for this shift. Together we can raise ideas, critique them and ask each other how we can go further. Join us as we expand the collective wisdom on promising approaches and pitfalls. Participants will engage in a candid conversation with peers and national experts to build capacity for going beyond curriculum.

 

Building support for community prevention: Going beyond curriculum

 

Hosts: David Lee and Ashley Maier, PreventConnect, CALCASA
Presenters: Annie Lyles and Menaka Mohan, Prevention Institute

Peer Learning Forum Session 1
Bringing Work to Scale: How do we jump from selected to universal?
Tuesday, May 28
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Peer Learning Forum Session 2
Increasing Skills and Capacities for Community Level Work
Thursday, June 13
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Peer Learning Forum Session 3
Integrating Community Will and Engagement Strategies
Thursday, June 27
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Objectives:
By the end of the series, participants will
Have engaged in a candid discussion about the challenges and opportunities of community prevention strategies.
Be able to provide examples of effective approaches and share useful tools from various communities.
Be able to identify potential indicators for measuring the impact of population-based prevention strategies.

What is a Peer Learning Forum?
Peer Learning Forums are PreventConnect's newest online forum for sexual violence and domestic violence prevention practitioners to learn from each other to strengthen their prevention work. The Peer Learning Forum is designed to go deeper into prevention topics in a series of three web conferences with a targeted audience. During each Peer Learning Forum series, participants will use other online resources (such as podcasts or eLearning units) to discuss during subsequent sessions.

What is a Web Conference?
A web conference is an opportunity to attend an online workshop by watching a presentation on your computer screen (using your internet connection) and hearing presenters through your telephone. PreventConnect web conferences feature an opportunity to participate in online question & answer sessions and live text chat between participants. If for some reason you are unable to join on your computer, you can download the presentation slides from our website and listen on your phone.

Real-Time Captioning Available:
Instructions for accessing captioning during this web conference will be provided with your registration confirmation.

Compatibility:
The iLinc web conference software used by Prevent Connect is compatible with both Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® Macintosh® computers. Click here for detailed system requirements.
Conference registrants will receive important information by email about how to access the web conference session. To try to avoid this important message from being blocked by your SPAM filter, please add "emailservice@ilinc.com" to your email address book or allowed-senders list. If you have access to your network firewall, you can also add "ilinc.com" and "calcasa.org" to your allowed-domains list.

Note: event time is listed in EST.

This webinar will discuss how Safe Routes to School advocates can support municipal transportation departments and practitioners in identifying ways to safely get children active commuting to school. Register now.

Hosted by The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP) and facilitated by Prevention Institute, the Health Equity Summit will obtain input from a diverse group of approximately 40 to 50 national, state, and local experts, public health practitioners, tobacco control partners, and stakeholders. The purpose of the Summit is to create a statewide strategy that: 1) identifies achievable, population-specific outcome measures, 2) describes strategic directions that guide tobacco control and other chronic disease efforts in California to achieve tobacco-related health equity, and 3) strengthens partnerships and encourages interagency collaboration that support an integrated approach to addressing tobacco-related health inequities in California.

This event is invitation only.

Peer Learning Forums are PreventConnect's newest online forum for sexual violence and domestic violence prevention practitioners to learn from each other to strengthen their prevention work. The Peer Learning Forum is designed to go deeper into prevention topics in a series of three web conferences with a targeted audience. Peer Learning Forums will include use of online resources such as podcasts and eLearning units.

There is growing understanding of the value of implementing population-level strategies to prevent sexual and domestic violence. Many preventionists find themselves in favor of implementing more population-based strategies that shift whole community norms, but without a guide on how to make that shift in their work and in their agency. All too often the field's infrastructures and expertise have been built with a focus on individually-based strategies and there is little space to explore the benefit of work at the community level.
The first Peer Learning Forum will focus on opportunities to use the current infrastructure to build up to more community-level impact. We will also examine what we can learn from other fields and how to make the case for this shift. Together we can raise ideas, critique them and ask each other how we can go further. Join us as we expand the collective wisdom on promising approaches and pitfalls. Participants will engage in a candid conversation with peers and national experts to build capacity for going beyond curriculum.

 

Building support for community prevention: Going beyond curriculum

 

Hosts: David Lee and Ashley Maier, PreventConnect, CALCASA
Presenters: Annie Lyles and Menaka Mohan, Prevention Institute

Peer Learning Forum Session 1
Bringing Work to Scale: How do we jump from selected to universal?
Tuesday, May 28
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Peer Learning Forum Session 2
Increasing Skills and Capacities for Community Level Work
Thursday, June 13
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Peer Learning Forum Session 3
Integrating Community Will and Engagement Strategies
Thursday, June 27
2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (11 AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time)

Objectives:
By the end of the series, participants will
Have engaged in a candid discussion about the challenges and opportunities of community prevention strategies.
Be able to provide examples of effective approaches and share useful tools from various communities.
Be able to identify potential indicators for measuring the impact of population-based prevention strategies.

What is a Peer Learning Forum?
Peer Learning Forums are PreventConnect's newest online forum for sexual violence and domestic violence prevention practitioners to learn from each other to strengthen their prevention work. The Peer Learning Forum is designed to go deeper into prevention topics in a series of three web conferences with a targeted audience. During each Peer Learning Forum series, participants will use other online resources (such as podcasts or eLearning units) to discuss during subsequent sessions.

What is a Web Conference?
A web conference is an opportunity to attend an online workshop by watching a presentation on your computer screen (using your internet connection) and hearing presenters through your telephone. PreventConnect web conferences feature an opportunity to participate in online question & answer sessions and live text chat between participants. If for some reason you are unable to join on your computer, you can download the presentation slides from our website and listen on your phone.

Real-Time Captioning Available:
Instructions for accessing captioning during this web conference will be provided with your registration confirmation.

Compatibility:
The iLinc web conference software used by Prevent Connect is compatible with both Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® Macintosh® computers. Click here for detailed system requirements.
Conference registrants will receive important information by email about how to access the web conference session. To try to avoid this important message from being blocked by your SPAM filter, please add "emailservice@ilinc.com" to your email address book or allowed-senders list. If you have access to your network firewall, you can also add "ilinc.com" and "calcasa.org" to your allowed-domains list.

Hosted by the Local Government Commission
Co-presented by the National Center for Safe Routes to School & the Safe Routes to School National Partnership

The Safe Routes to School National Conference heads to Sacramento this year--recognizing California's key role and leadership in the Safe Routes to School movement. In fact, California was the first state to enact SRTS legislation all the way back in 1999. Come learn about the latest in SRTS strategies and join the parents, volunteers, public health practitioners, and active living afficianados that make the Safe Routes to School movement so great!

Call for Session Proposals open until February 15, 2013.

Registration to open in early May 2013.