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- Making the Case for Prevention: Return on Investment and Local Benefits
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- This August Recess, Share Prevention Successes with Your US Congresspeople
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- Shocked but Not Surprised—Yet Another U.S. Massacre
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- Framing Prevention: Making the Human and Economic Case
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- Redefining Health Care: Community Prevention as a human right
- Setting a New Academic Standard: Getting Junk Food Out of Schools
- PreventConnect 2012 Web Conferences: Connect for Success: Enhancing impact through innovative partnerships
- Bright Paint or Bright Kids?
- Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly and Senate Committees on Health: Prevention for a Healthier California
- Prevention Institute's statement on President Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal
- Creeps and Weirdos: the auto industry agenda for keeping you on four wheels
- Reporters can do better: Media coverage of Sandusky trial amplifies shame/silence of sexual abuse
- 12 for 2012: Prevention Institute’s most popular resources
- Congratulations—Youth Violence Prevention funding partially restored
- House Payroll Tax Vote Compromises Health
- Docs won’t benefit from prevention cuts
- Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Stopping Sexual Abuse in Sports and Every Institution
- Standing Up for Community Prevention: Op-Ed Roundup
- New Resources For Moving Health Equity Forward
- Prevention for the 99%: Prevention Institute supports the Occupy Movement
- We're Not Buying It: Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids
- Prevention, Population Health and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
- Connecting the Dots: Community Safety and Latino Child Nutrition
- For Want of a Crosswalk, a Life was Lost
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- Food Industry: Walk the Talk to Protect Our Kids' Health
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- Gary Yates: A Career of Transformative Grantmaking
- Prevention: Saving seniors, Medicare - and a trillion dollars
- Prevention Works: Affordable Care Act Is Already Building Health Where You Live
- From Vision to Reality: Prevention and the Affordable Care Act Anniversary
- Senseless Violence in Tucson
- When it comes to health reform, Dr Tom Coburn: First, do no harm
- No Cookies 2 my Kid. Community Prevention 4evR
- An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Repeal
- Building Health in All Policies
- AAA: Their Policies should be as Good as their Service. A conversation between Larry Cohen and Dick Jackson
- Celebrating the Life and Work of Beverly Coleman-Miller, M.D.
- 180 Days of Prevention and Health Reform: evidence of early success
- The Johanns Amendment is Making Us Sick
- Prevention and Public Health Fund: Good for our health, good for small business
- What Role can Health Impact Assessment Play in the National Health Reform Initiative?
- Moving from Them to Us: Preventing violence in the aftermath of Oscar Grant's death
- As American as Apple Pie: Policies that Protect Health
- Not in Sickness; in Health: How Health Reform could Start a Real Revolution
- There's no such thing as an accident: a prevention approach to the Gulf oil spill
- Prevention Invests in Physical and Fiscal Health
- "Let's Move" Task Force Breaks New Ground
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- Lunch with the Governor (and the Coke Salesman)
- Minneapolis Earns National Recognition
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- Web Convening: "Moving from Them to Us: Challenges in Reframing Violence among Youth"
- Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth: UNITY Announcements: November 2009
- Prevention Institute Turns Twelve!
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- Fatty Foods Pushed More On Latino Kids Amid Childhood Obesity Epidemic, Study Says (5.8.13)
- A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence (12.21.12)
- Violence and Bullying Prevention in the Community (11.13.12)
- Policy Makes it Possible (10.30.12)
- Fighting for Accurate Food Labels (10.17.12)
- Beyond Bars (9.12)
- Obesity on the Rise (KQED, 9.20.12)
- Prevention Institute Leads Training for Long Beach Youth (6.13.12)
- Should Berkeley Join Richmond in Cola Wars? (6.4.12)
- Kids Living in Combat Zones...in U.S. Cities (5.4.12)
- The Clementi case and the desperate need for a criminal justice paradigm shift (4.30.12)
- CDC Project Tackles Youth Violence from a Public Health Perspective (4.27.12)
- Putting health ahead of politics: what do we really want to save? (4.24.12)
- California's Health: County by County Rankings (4.3.12)
- PI’s “Addressing The Intersection: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Eating and Active Living” highlighted in “The Nation’s Health”
- Big Gulps for Little Leagues: Hear What Soft Drink Companies Say, Show What They Do (3.19.12)
- Don't Let Food Labels Fool You (3.21.12)
- “Lightly Salted? How to Decode Food Packaging” (3.14.12)
- "Rosenblum: Push to encourage healthy behavior will pay off in time" (3.15.12)
- "Lack of primary and preventive care sends thousands to hospitals" (2.20.12)
- "Money for Prevention Is First to Go in 'Doc Fix'" (2/16/12)
- "If We Build It, Will People Be More Healthy?" (1.31.12)
- "US guidelines on food marketing to kids stalls" (1.27.12)
- "Why Low-Income Kids Miss Out On Play" (1.10.12)
- "Soda Tax: What Can a Penny Do?" (1.9.12)
- "$2 million in grants will focus on violence, jobs training, child development and care for elderly" (12.14.11)
- "Food giants fight proposed nutrition guidelines" (12.12.11)
- Opinion: "From graffiti to corn" (11.18.11)
- "What’s in a food policy?" (11.3.11)
- "Federal budget must prioritize opportunities, not arrests, for our young people" (10.19.11)
- "California shut out of shocking new farm scheme" (10.26.11)
- "Reaching to the stars in an effort to reduce obesity" (10.24.11)
- "Proposed new food labels would rate nutrition" (10.21.11)
- "The Candification of Our Food: The Case of the Fruit-Less Fruit Snack" (10.20.11)
- "Youth Violence: Prevention Loses Out to Incarceration As Stryve Grant and CDC Funds Axed; Advocates say Senate Appropriations committee has its priorities wrong" (9.29.11)
- "Senate bill would hurt youth violence prevention programs" (9.26.11)
- "After another senseless death, listen to youth speak in art" (9.21.11)
- "Senate vote could undercut funding for new Multnomah County youth violence-prevention program" (9.22.11)
- Oakland celebrates the update and rerelease of influential book 'Helping Teens Stop Violence'" (9.1.11)
- "Strategic Alliance joins Center for Science in the Public Interest to launch Food Day 2011" (8.25.11)
- "Is prevention a smart investment? You bet" (8.5.11)
- "National health policy leaders converge in Keystone" (7.31.11)
- "Natural & Organic Hot Dogs Not As Healthy As They Claim" (7.15.11)
- Strategic Alliance included in Marion Nestle's "Food Advocacy: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Involved"
- Letter to the Editor: Health and the government: Larry Cohen in the Los Angeles Times
- "MyPlate Replaces the Food Pyramid - and Bay Area Nutritionists Celebrate" (6.2.11)
- Letter to the Editor: "Beyond the Food Labels" PI's Juliet Sims in the New York Times
- "Putting Real Fruit in the Loops" (4.29.11)
- "Nashville healthy living campaign draws national praise" (4.9.11)
- "Save Money! Stay Healthy!" (4.8.11)
- PI's Larry Cohen featured on "NPT Reports: Children's Health Crisis - Prevention"
- PI's Leslie Mikkelsen in the San Francisco Chronicle
- PI's Larry Cohen in the Bay Area Citizen (2.8.11)
- "Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children's Food" in the News
- "U.S. plan aims to make school meals more healthful" (1.14.11)
- "School lunch program likely to be overhauled" (12.2.10)
- "Health is on the Move: Transportation Policies and Physical Activity" (11.10.10)
- "New edition of book makes the case for community prevention" (11.1.10)
- "Some not happy about schools' Happy Meal fundraisers" (10.14.10)
- Letter to the Editor: "Believe in kids? Don't buy it" (9.30.10)
- PI coordinates plan to prevent violence in Reading, PA
- "Amendment to Repeal Health Bill Tax Provision Fails; Prevention Fans Cheer" (9.15.10)
- "Repeal of Health Bill’s 1099 Provision Could Take Funds from Prevention" (9.13.10)
- "Attacking obesity by making parks safer" (9.7.10)
- "For Men of Color, Health Problems Are Linked to Place, Not Race" (7.22.10)
- "Arrests are not the solution for the violence problem" (7.11.10)
- Addressing Violence, Boosting Community Health (6.02.10)
- PI's Larry Cohen and CA state controller John Chiang: "Budget reforms should start with better health planning" op-ed in San Jose Mercury (5.14.10)
- "Group strives to treat symptoms of violence as preventative measure" (5.12.10)
- Prevention Institute and UNITY in Contra Costa News: "U.S. attorney general visits East Bay youth center seen as possible model for nation" (5.11.10)
- "Upending Twisted Norms" profiles CeaseFire Chicago (New York Times: 5.10.10)
- "Groups Vie for $15 Billion In Prevention Money," Prevention Institute says prevention money in health reform should go to community prevention (5.06.10)
- "Kudos for first lady's anti-obesity campaign," Marion Nestle references Prevention Institute's 'Setting the Record Straight' (4.02.10)
- Health Plans Can Do Well by Doing Good
- Letters to the Editor: Leslie Mikkelsen and Shakirah Simley in the Sacramento Bee (03.05.10)
- "WWII Program Enlisted for War on Childhood Obesity" (02.08.10)
- Letter to the Editor: "Innovative Policies Need Time To Work" (Health Affairs: 01.10)
- Letter to the Editor: Larry Cohen on "Cells and Texting Cause 28 Percent of Traffic Crashes" (San Francisco Chronicle: 01.15.10)
- “Cost-saving prisons aren’t the California dream—prevention is.” Op-ed by Rachel Davis, published in San Francisco Chronicle (01.12.10)
- "Poverty, Poor Education Shave Years Off the Life Span," Prevention Institute listed as a resource (Business Week 1.4.10)
- The Sacramento Bee interviews Executive Director Larry Cohen, "Better habits can help trim bloated health care system" (01.02.10)
- "A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy" published in The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (09)
- Bay Area Dietetics Association interviews Managing Director Leslie Mikkelsen on "Setting the Record Straight: Nutrition and Health Professionals Define Healthful Food" (11.09)
- Prevention Institute and UNITY in The Denver Post (11.15.09)
- Prevention Institute Featured in the Nürnberger Zeitung (2.12.09)
- Letter To The Editor: Rachel Davis on "Focus in Chicago: Students at Risk of Violence" (New York Times: 10.7.09)
- Letter To The Editor: Rachel Davis on "Seeking Safe Passage: Curing a Public Epidemic" (Chicago Tribune: 10.7.09)
- Letter to the Editor: Janani Srikantharajah on "Roads Must be Safer for Everyone" (The Oakland Tribune: 03.18.09)
- "What's Healthy?" Prevention Institute's 'Setting the Record Straight' featured in the Atlantic and Mark Bittman's New York Times Blog (03.26.09)
- "Bystanders can deter bullying," AZCentral interviews Prevention Institute's Annie Lyles (12.08)
- Leslie Mikkelsen interviewed by ABC news in "Will Rising Food Costs Make you Fat?" (03.18.08)
- "California Launches New Public Health Department,"
- Resources for Reporters
- Press Releases
- Food and Beverage Companies Can, and Should, Do Better By Our Kids
- A Victory for Health--Prevention Institute's Statement on Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act Decision
- Prevention Institute’s Executive Director Larry Cohen’s on House Vote to Repeal Prevention and Public Health Fund
- Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Embodied in Launch of New Initiative for Community Peace and Thriving Youth
- Media Advisory: April 4th Revisited: Saving Lives, Building Dreams!
- New Institute of Medicine recommendations will help parents identify truly healthy foods for kids (10.20.11)
- “Help Our Children Eat Better--Don't Make it Harder" (10.12.11)
- National Health Leaders Laud Prevention Institute’s "We’re Not Buying It:" Video reveals deceptive food industry practices
- “We’re Not Buying It”: Leading Advocates Launch Campaign, Video Asking President Obama to Protect Children from Junk Food Marketing
- Senate Appropriations Bill Eliminates All CDC Youth Violence Prevention Funds; Prevention Institute calls cuts an "unacceptable step backward"
- ACA Anniversary Press Conference, Thursday
- Food Industry responds to PI front-of-pack labeling study
- Package Labels that Market Children's Food Products Hide Truth
- Defeat of Johanns Amendment is Victory for Prevention
- CDC awards Prevention Institute major grant to lead national efforts to prevent violence
- Prevention Institute receives Heritage Property Designation
- A Major Milestone in Preventing Violence
- "Our kids didn't do this to themselves"
- America’s Agenda and Prevention Institute Applaud Harkin HELP Leadership Appointment (09.09)
- Leading National Foundations and Health-Care Organizations Make Unprecedented Call for Investment in Prevention (08.09)
- Prominent Prevention Organization Endorses Public Plan Option (07.09)
- Leading Health Advocate Applauds Respondents in Recent Poll for Putting Prevention First (07.09)
- Highlights
- Nationwide Instant Recess Honors Toni Yancey, Public Health Champion
- Study Finds Nearly All Food Products Advertised on Spanish-Language Kids Shows Are Junk
- Get Up and Move to Honor Toni Yancey: Nationwide Instant Recess
- How Can We Pay for a Healthy Population? (PI Webinar Recording)
- 25 States funded to redesign health system: Important opportunity for prevention
- How Can We Pay For a Healthier Population? New Answers From Around the Country
- Prevention Institute on TedMed
- CDC Injury Center Honors Injury Prevention Leaders, including PI's Larry Cohen
- Surgeon General to Release the National Prevention Council Action Plan
- PI's Larry Cohen receives Alex Kelter Vision Award
- UNITY Partners with The Martin Luther King III Institute for Community Peace and Thriving Youth
- Upcoming UNITY Webinar (3/22 10-11:30am, PST)
- Join Prevention Institute at APHA 2011
- Food Day Builds Momentum for Healthy Food
- New UNITY Fact Sheet Links Health Equity and Violence
- Community Transformation Grants Awarded: Building Momentum for New Approaches to Health
- Senate Appropriations Bill Eliminates All CDC Youth Violence Prevention Funds: Act Now
- Proposed Cuts to Prevention Fund are Unacceptable
- Industry Misses Opportunities to Promote Healthful Diets
- Join Prevention Institute at 2011 National Summit on Your City's Families
- Upcoming Webinar: Diversifying Leadership: Building the Voice and Vision to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence
- Book Signing and Reception: Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community and Stand for Justice
- Protecting Prevention in the Affordable Care Act: Sharing the Evidence, Putting Leadership & Resources into Action
- Strategic Alliance Webpages serve as hub for healthy food and active living advocates
- Federal Prevention Announcement on Thursday, June 16th
- UNITY Fact Sheets: Links Between Violence and Chronic Diseases, Mental Illness and Poor Learning
- $102 million funding available through Community Transformation Grants
- Prevention Institute honored to receive CDC Injury Prevention and Control Health Impact Award
- President Obama to protect Prevention Funding
- Community Centered Health Homes: Bridging the gap between health services and community prevention
- Teaching Prevention Webinar: Strategies for Bringing Prevention to the Classroom
- A Time for Action: Taking a Stand for Prevention and Protecting the Affordable Care Act
- New study finds front-of-package labels misleading
- Beltway connects safety to chronic disease
- Congressional Briefing: "Addressing the Intersection: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Eating and Active Living"
- NNPHI and Prevention Institute Partner to Address Social Determinants of Health
- Health Reform IS Working: A Webinar discussion on next steps for community prevention in the Affordable Care Act
- Join Us: Webinar on Food Environments
- Join Prevention Institute at APHA
- Join HHS, CDC for Community Prevention Dialogue
- Fostering Physical Activity for Children and Youth: Opportunities for a Lifetime of Health
- Just-released: Prevention is Primary, Second Edition
- An Overview of Outcomes, Findings & Recommendations from the First 5 Years of UNITY
- Defeat of Johanns, Victory for Prevention
- Protect Prevention and Public Health: Johanns vote tomorrow, what you can do today.
- Taking Action for Community Prevention: Protecting the Prevention and Public Health Fund
- Principles For Quality Prevention In Health Reform
- Next Steps for Health Reform
- Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Principles for Prevention
- Convergence Partnership Comments to Senate Committee on Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act
- Addressing the Intersection: preventing violence and promoting healthy eating and active living
- Recipes for Change released
- Health Reform: Prevention starts now
- ARRA releases Communities Putting Prevention to Work funding
- Bi-partisan Emphasis on Prevention: Yesterday, California; Today, the US
- Moving from Vision to Reality: Priority Actions to Advance Equitable Opportunities for Healthy Eating and Activity in California
- Historic Funding of Prevention and Wellness: Sebelius releases Recovery Act Grants for Community Prevention and Wellness
- A New Resource for Equity
- Welcome to Our New Website!
- Are Cost-Saving Prisons the California Dream?
- Landmark Investment in Prevention: HHS Announces ARRA Prevention and Wellness Fund
- Preventing Violence Quick Links
- Leading National Foundations and Health-Care Organizations Make Unprecedented Call for Investment in Prevention
- Strengthening What Works: Critical Provisions for Prevention and Public Health in Health Reform Legislation
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