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Framing Community Safety is a guide for nonprofits, community-based organizations, public agencies, and others who want to communicate more effectively with the public about community-led efforts to...
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Sexual harassment, abuse, and assault can have short- and long-term physical, emotional, and psychological effects on a person’s wellbeing and impact an entire community, from the culture and...
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With support from the Violence Prevention Alliance and Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Prevention Institute developed this resource to offer PI’s Collaboration Multiplier as a...
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This collection includes a range of Prevention Institute publications on preventing multiple forms of violence and trauma.
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Through the leadership of coalitions like the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (the Partnership) and the California Work and Family Coalition, momentum is already building to promote...
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Prevention Institute participated in the California IPV and Health Policy Leadership Cohort and explored policy and practice changes to move upstream and address community-level factors contributing...
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With support from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, and in partnership with representatives from multiple sectors, including domestic violence prevention advocates, and researchers,...
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Safety in All Policies: A Brief on Engaging the Education Sector in Preventing Violence in California focuses on the education sector and describes eight recommended actions at the local level and...
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Since the initial development of the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience Framework in 2016, multiple networks and communities have shared it, as well as adopted, adapted and/or implemented...
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This report summarizes the 2017 PreventConnect web conference series and represents directions for the field of sexual and domestic violence prevention. It draws together high-level themes that unify...
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Fathers and father figures are essential members of families and communities who play many roles, including raising children and fostering safety in the community. As part of the national project,...
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As part of the national project, Cradle to Community: A Focus on Community Safety and Healthy Child Development funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this brief shares key findings and...
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This report by Prevention Institute and the Center for the Study of Social Policy makes the case for action and delineates opportunities for systems, policy, and practice change at the intersection...
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What? Why? How? Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience Framework builds off of core concepts in the Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience...
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The 2016 Cradle to Community convening was the first opportunity to bring together two national networks: Prevention Institute’s UNITY City Network and the Center for the Study of Social Policy’s...
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Milwaukee Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention engaged Prevention Institute to help facilitate the development of the Blueprint grounded in PI’s Adverse Community Experiences and...
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When sectors work together to address violence, not only can they fulfill their particular mandates, but they can also better serve communities and improve outcomes for children and youth. Prevention...
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Prevention Institute and Futures Without Violence partnered to develop this paper to inform the Defending Childhood Initiative, a first of its kind initiative to address children’s exposure to...
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Direct experience as well as exposure to multiple forms of violence can have a compounding negative impact on children’s development. Despite the strong relationship, the fields of practice...
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Adverse community experiences – such as concentrated poverty, segregation from opportunity, and community violence – contribute to community trauma, which can exacerbate adverse childhood experiences...
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Community violence interferes with young children’s attainment of key competencies — cognitive, sensory, muscular, emotional, social and behavioral — and compromises the capabilities of caregivers to...
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In recognition of the dramatically shifting national landscape, and with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit, nearly 25 leaders in community...
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This report offers research, analysis, frameworks, and practitioner wisdom to understand the factors in the community environment that support safe relationships and a reduction in domestic violence...
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This PI-authored article published in the Journal of Public Health Policy’s special issue on Violence and Health: Merging Evidence and Implementation details how comprehensive strategies to improve...
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The community development sector invests over $200 billion per year in neighborhoods across the U.S. with low and moderate average household incomes.
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Decisions about how land is used, by whom, and for what purposes hold immense potential to prevent violence before it occurs, but land use decisions are rarely made with violence prevention in mind....
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Prevention Institute developed a Safety in All Policies framework and actionable recommendations to advance community safety and violence prevention in California through a multi-sector public health...
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Working with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Prevention Institute developed five profiles that highlight the importance of...
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To clarify the relationships among eight forms of violence, Prevention Institute developed Connecting the Dots with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to build a case for...
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There is growing recognition that preventing violence means engaging many sectors, but collaboration can be difficult.
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UNITY has enhanced and built capacity of U.S. cities to prevent violence using the public health approach since 2005, and more than 70 percent of national partners see UNITY as a viable model for...
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Young people are powerfully affected by the environments they grow up in, and this has implications for preventing violence. In many neighborhoods across the U.S., entire communities experience...
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Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith was one of the first people to describe violence as a public health issue, and this publication shares her valuable insights for practitioners to prevent violence in the...
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The Boston Public Health Commission's Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (VIP) is grounded in community engagement, an essential element of preventing violence.
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Part of the City Voices and Perspectives series, this publication describes the advantages of a coordinated out-of-school-time system and includes recommendations for overcoming implementation...
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Compiled by Prevention Institute (with support from the Kresge Foundation), the following eight profiles demonstrate how states are moving beyond silos to partner within and outside of state...
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R.T. Rybak
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Looking to prevent violence and not just react after the fact?
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The "Social and Economic Costs of Violence-Workshop Summary" released by the Institute of Medicine presents a comprehensive framework for thinking about the impact of violence, exploring costs beyond...
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Part of UNITY's City Voices and Perspectives series, Blueprint for Action-Preventing Violence in Minneapolis demonstrates how developing and implementing a strategic plan grounded in prevention is...
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In this City Voices and Perspectives publication, Denver City Councilman Paul D.
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Partnerships are a key for ensuring that all children in Chicago are safe, healthy and educated, says Christopher Mallette, formerly of the Office of the Mayor.
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Violence has far-reaching consequences for young people, families and neighborhoods, beyond serious physical injury and death. These fact sheets describe how violence affects other health problems...
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Navigating the politics of evaluation is one component of Policy Priorities for Preventing Violence.
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Kamala Harris, the California attorney general, detailed her Smart on Crime approach during a UNITY webinar in 2010 when she was San Francisco's district attorney.
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The Spectrum of Prevention provides a valuable framework for preventing sexual violence at all levels--by changing organizational practices, influencing policy and building coalitions, in addition to...
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Across the country, healthy food and activity leaders have identified violence and the fear of violence as major roadblocks to the success of chronic disease prevention strategies. This PI report...
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Violence is among the most serious health threats in the nation today, jeopardizing the health and safety of the public. Recognizing that law enforcement alone cannot solve the problem of violence,...
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This Q&A on violence as a public health issue addresses key questions, including:
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This framing brief explores how violence affecting youth has been portrayed in the news, how the issue of race complicates depictions of youth and violence, and how public attitudes about government...
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This policy brief presents the distilled research and critical thinking of a diverse group of local and national experts in the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Prevention Institute...
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Read our recommendations for swift action and investments that will improve health and safety for all Californians.
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Discusses strategies and opportunities for collaboration through the creation of safe spaces, fostering social cohesion and promoting community development and employment.
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A set of recommendations for the new administration to improve outcomes for young people, our cities, and our economic recovery and growth.
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Prevention Institute's Annie Lyles is interviewed on the role of bystanders in preventing violence.
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Prevention Institute collaborated with the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Exploitation to develop this plan, which addresses the need to reduce the societal demand for commercial and...
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Connie Rice’s presentation to the UNITY National Corsortium make the case for incorporating a public health approach into violence prevention efforts.
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This slide deck describes a public health approach to violence prevention.
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Provides a set of tools for city leaders to improve violence prevention strategies through effective, ongoing evaluation. Also provides information on available data sources.
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An article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlighting Prevention Institute's collaborative six-part satellite training series on preventing youth violence.
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This publication provides effective primary prevention activities to reduce the incidence of sexual violence, emphasizing the importance of changing social norms.
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This report provides an overview of promising violence prevention initiatives across the nation, with special focus on the primary prevention of violence affecting youth and adult intimate partner...
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What clinicians need to know (and do) to prevent intimate partner violence from occurring in the first place.
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The Prevention Institute authored this Blueprint and facilitated a development process that included input from a diverse group of stakeholders from across Alameda County.
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Produced for The Physician's Guide to Preventing Intimate Partner Violence, Prevention Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention co-authored this chapter on primary prevention...
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Utilizing The Spectrum of Prevention, this checklist provides a list of actions for the business sector to complete in aiding violence prevention efforts.
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This brief article gives an introduction to the primary prevention of child abuse and includes 15 specific recommendations, along with case studies and suggested activities at the individual, family...
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This paper delineates how intentional and unintentional injury prevention practitioners can more effectively collaborate to promote safer environments and further reduce incidence of injury.
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This paper delineates the accomplishments of a state interdisciplinary partnership to support local violence prevention efforts.
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The First Steps report, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and done in collaboration with Action Alliance for Children and Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, synthesizes a decade...
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With support from Children's Safety Network, Prevention Institute developed a set of school violence prevention fact sheets in September 2001.
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In an effort to improve health outcomes for children, youth, and families, the City of Salinas joined together with the Violent Injury Prevention Coalition (VIPC) and their foundation, Partners for...
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This paper appeared in Environment and Urbanization, and describes the root causes of America's violence problem and proposes a community-based public health approach to violence prevention.
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This document serves to build momentum for a national primary prevention strategy to prevent intimate partner violence.
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Time and again, we are heartbroken by the news of another mass shooting. Part of our healing must be the conviction that we will do everything in our power to keep these tragedies from happening in a...
