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Projects & Initiatives Related to Mental Health & Wellbeing

  • December 2021

    Creating Common Ground: Advancing Equity in Mental Health Outcomes through Upstream Community Prevention in California

    COVID-19 has disproportionately harmed people of color and communities with lower income with regard to employment, worker protections, and social isolation. Given the adverse impacts that COVID-19...
  • January 2021

    Strengthening Intergenerational Partnerships

    Prevention Institute is researching and planning how to integrate intergenerational partnerships into our health equity efforts. For example, we are collaborating with community-based partners to...
  • August 2020

    Updating the CDC Suicide Prevention Technical Package for Application During Catastrophic Events

    Through a cooperative agreement with the CDC, PI has partnered with RTI International and CLASP to update the technical package content and develop modules that provide a foundation for activities ...
  • August 2020

    Adverse Childhood Experiences and Suicide Prevention Rapid Response Training & Technical Assistance Tools

    COVID-19 and the national outcry for racial justice has illuminated a need for coordinated, culturally-specific and proactive ACEs and suicide prevention efforts. Through a cooperative agreement with...
  • May 2019

    Communities of Care

    Communities of Care is an initiative that supports collaborative approaches to wellbeing in the greater Houston Metropolitan Area, with a focus on children and youth of color and their families. Its...
  • May 2017

    Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: Understanding, Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma

    Until now, there has been no basis for understanding how community trauma undermines resilience and mental wellbeing, especially in communities highly impacted by violence, and what can be done about...
  • March 2016

    Cradle to Community: A Focus on Community Safety and Healthy Child Development

    Prevention Institute and the Center for the Study of Social Policy collaborated to identify the strategic policy, practice, systems, and norms change levers to make communities safer, so that all...
  • October 2015

    Promoting Effectiveness and Sustainability Among Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs

    Prevention Institute provided training to build the capacity of mental health practitioners to promote effectiveness and sustainability among mental health early intervention and prevention programs...
  • October 2015

    California Campaign to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

    The Health for All report identifies nine priority health disparity issues, and delineates institutional, governmental, and community strategies to improve healthcare and the environments in which...
  • May 2015

    Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys

    Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys is a national initiative to transform community conditions that influence mental wellbeing. Thirteen communities across the U.S....
  • December 2009

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Prevention/Early Intervention Mental Health Training

    Prevention Institute provided consultation to Prevention/Early Intervention grantees in the areas of effectiveness and sustainability and has captured community successes through a series of profiles...
  • July 2009

    Developing a Prevention Framework for San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services

    This report provides the framework created to promote the emotional, psychological, and physical well-being of San Mateo County. Includes strategies to promote policy and organizational practice...
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