Partner with us to advance health, safety, and wellbeing, strengthen health equity and racial justice, and drive community transformation through upstream prevention. 

Since our founding in 1997, we have helped partners move from vision to action—aligning efforts, building capacity, and driving policy and systems change.

Our services support:

• Community-based organizations and community collaboratives
• Public agencies, including public health agencies and health departments at the local, state, and national levels
• Municipalities and local government leaders
• Healthcare institutions and health systems
• Philanthropic organizations and funders

Our approach centers community leadership and lived experience. We focus on community-defined solutions, strengthen conditions across social, economic, and built environments, and contribute to sustained prevention and shifts in power to communities. We work with partners to design and implement strategies through planning, capacity building, and cross-sector coordination that lead to sustained, community-level change.

Our topical expertise spans creating healthy communities, advancing systems of prevention and health equity, bridging health equity and racial justice, building power with community, addressing adverse community experiences and resilience, shaping land use and the built environment, promoting safety, mental health and wellbeing, and preventing substance misuse.

How We Can Support Your Work

Develop Strategy & Advance Policy and Systems Change

We support partners to move from insight to aligned strategy through translation of community priorities and data into clear direction for policy and systems change. 

• Landscape scans, needs assessments, research, and synthesis to inform strategy and decision-making
• Stakeholder engagement, listening sessions, and cross-sector planning processes
• Strategic planning and cross-sector alignment at city, county, state, and national levels
• Policy analysis and systems change strategies
• Narrative strategy development to advance affirmative narratives, shape how issues and solutions are understood, and counter harmful narratives
• Development of tools, frameworks, and practical resources to guide strategy, decision-making, and action

Build Capacity & Support Implementation

We provide coaching, facilitation, and technical assistance to put strategies into practice.

• Coaching, advisory support, and technical assistance for leaders, teams, and initiatives
• Capacity building to put prevention and health equity and racial justice into practice
• Coaching and technical assistance to develop and apply narrative strategies in practice
• Application of tools, frameworks, and resources in planning and implementation
• Community engagement and leadership development
• Facilitation and support of collaboratives, peer learning networks, and communities of practice

Strengthen Partnerships & Align Efforts

We support partnership and coalition development, relationship building, alignment, governance, and coordination to advance shared priorities.

• Building and supporting coalitions, collaboratives, and cross-sector partnerships
• Aligning priorities, strategies, and roles across organizations and systems
• Assessing partnership effectiveness and designing structures to strengthen collaboration and advance shared priorities
• Supporting backbone functions and shared governance approaches
• Narrative strategy development and communications to support shared direction and collective action

Train, Convene & Build Shared Learning

We provide training, convening, and facilitation to build knowledge, skills, and shared understanding that strengthen practice and collaboration.

• Trainings and workshops across our core strategies and areas of focus 
• Narrative strategy and framing workshops
• Keynotes and conference sessions for public health and cross-sector audiences 
• Learning communities, peer exchange, and convening design and facilitation to support collaboration, shared learning, and collective action
• Training and facilitation to support use of PI tools and frameworks in practice 

Let’s Connect

We’d welcome a conversation about your goals and how we can support your work. Start a conversation with us at consult [at] preventioninstitute.org (consult[at]preventioninstitute[dot]org).