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Projects & Initiatives Related to Safety

  • August 2021

    Strengthening Community Safety in California

    As part of a statewide movement, Prevention Institute is strengthening community safety in California through strategies that promote health equity and racial justice.
  • April 2021

    Community Safety Through Racial Justice and Health Equity

    Through partnerships with national gun violence prevention networks, Black-, Indigenous-, and People of Color-led organizations, public health departments and associations, and networks of young...
  • October 2020

    Cross-Department Alignment for Addressing Violence in Multnomah County

    Over the course of 2018 and 2019, an internal “Violence Intersections” workgroup was convened in Multnomah County, requested by Commissioner Stegmann, to analyze how the county prevents and...
  • 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 2018

    Elevating a public health approach to preventing violence (2018-2020)

    With support from The Langeloth Foundation, Prevention Institute (PI) is partnering with local communities and national networks to amplify support for a public health approach to preventing violence...
  • July 2017

    Sectors Acting For Equity (SAFE): Communities Preventing Intimate Partner Violence

    With support from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, Prevention Institute’s SAFE initiative engages leaders in California to envision and design innovative, multisector, health equity...
  • June 2017

    Developing a Community Safety Framework for Annie E. Casey Foundation

    Prevention Institute is helping the Annie E. Casey Foundation develop a community safety framework that is aligned with the foundation’s principles, priorities, and existing efforts to strengthen...
  • 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...
  • January 2017

    PreventConnect: Primary Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence

    For more than 10 years, PI and ValorUS have brought together this community of practice to strengthen primary prevention of sexual and domestic violence.  
  • June 2016

    WHO Global Violence Prevention Alliance

    Prevention Institute is a member of the WHO’s global Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), a network of WHO Member States, international agencies and civil society organizations working to prevent...
  • April 2016

    Health Equity in Violence Prevention

    Advancing health equity is a central piece of our work in preventing violence, as we aim to address the underlying systems and conditions of inequity that create and perpetuate violence in the first...
  • 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...
  • November 2015

    Partnerships for Preventing Violence Satellite Training Model

  • October 2015

    Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence

    Prevention Institute staff recognizes the links among multiple forms of violence and also has deep expertise in preventing specific types. This selection of projects illustrates our breadth in...
  • October 2015

    Exploring Interconnections

    Links among Multiple Forms of Violence
  • October 2015

    Advancing a Multi-Sector Approach

    Community Determinants of Domestic Violence
  • October 2015

    Promoting Community-Level Strategies

    Community Trauma and Resilience
  • October 2015

    Tailored Guidance for Cities and Counties

    Through intensive collaboration with local groups, Prevention Institute has directly shaped how cities and counties approach the issue of violence and has improved prevention practice broadly.
  • October 2015

    OJJDP Training and Technical Assistance Project

    Prevention Institute provided training and technical assistance to the signature violence prevention initiatives funded by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP),...
  • October 2015

    UNITY, Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth

    Since 2005, Prevention Institute has supported dozens of large U.S. cities to prevent urban violence through the UNITY initiative. UNITY advances a public health approach and works closely with the...
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