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Watch how PI partners with communities from Honolulu to Milwaukee; learn what Medellin can teach us about healthy and equitable land use
We’re pleased to share our latest multimedia creations with you that touch on topics ranging from preventing violence to promoting men’s mental health to spending opioid settlement funds on primary prevention. What cuts across all of these pieces is PI’s approach to creating health, safety, and wellbeing. We focus on community, prevention, and equity.

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Video: Prevention Institute: Partnering to achieve thriving, equitable communities (6:01)
Prevention Institute created this video to tell the story of our equity-driven, upstream, community-level approach to public health, and we were excited to see it broadcast on TV screens throughout the #APHA2019 conference this week. It focuses on two communities we collaborated with that brought together community members, government agencies, grassroots nonprofits, and health organizations to improve the community conditions that shape health. In Honolulu, through the Making Connections initiative, a community health center and its partners are helping boys of color heal and thrive by incorporating the community’s rich cultural traditions into leadership training and multi-generational mentoring at a local bicycle exchange. In Milwaukee, the Office of Violence Prevention developed the Milwaukee Blueprint for Peace, a comprehensive violence-prevention plan that’s coincided with a three-year decline in Milwaukee homicides and non-fatal shootings. Look out for interviews with PI board members Howard Pinderhughes and Reggie Moore. This video was made possible with support from The Kresge Foundation, The Movember Foundation, and others.

Podcast: What Medellín can teach use about healthy and equitable land use (28:19)
PI’s deputy executive director, Manal J. Aboelata, talks about her recent trip to Medellín, Colombia to learn about their innovative improvements to the city’s infrastructure. She explains how this city that was not long ago called “one of the most dangerous cities on earth” has transformed itself through public health investments, and what we in the United States can learn from its example. This podcast was made possible with support from the Durfee Foundation.

NACCHO Voice op-ed: Opioid Settlement Funds Must Go Where They’re Needed Most—Treatment and Prevention
As thousands of cities and counties hard-hit by the opioid crisis move closer to settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors, it’s time to talk about how communities can use these funds to meet urgent needs for treatment and invest in what it will truly take to stop this epidemic: preventing people from becoming addicted to opioids in the first place. Often, people use the word prevention to refer to efforts like distributing naloxone to stop opioid overdoses and deaths—and that’s urgent and important. But more attention is needed toward “primary” prevention—preventing opioid and other substance use and misuse from the start by addressing the community conditions that put people at risk.

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