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  • Media digest: New reporting and studies look at life for immigrants under Trump admin, lead paint companies' appeal to avoid $409M fine fails

    October 19, 2018

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending October 19, 2018! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • PI's Weekly Media Digest: Amnesty Intl releases new report on family separation, IPCC on how to limit global warming to 1.5C

    October 12, 2018

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending October 12, 2018! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • PI's Weekly Media Digest: IG reports on family separation policy, new study links sexual assault and harassment to depression, anxiety, and other health issues later in life

    October 5, 2018

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending October 5, 2018! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • We build our community, and then it builds us.

    October 4, 2018

    The following piece appeared in Mental Health America's blog, Chiming In, on October 4, 2018. 

    We need an “upstream” approach to mental health—by zooming out to assess and improve entire neighborhoods, we can prevent many potential mental health crises before they occur, and we can do this for every individual in the community.

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  • PI's Weekly Media digest: Changes to "public charge" rule threaten immigrants' health, Violence Against Women Act temporarily extended but not yet updated and reauthorized

    September 28, 2018

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending September 28, 2018! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • It’s not too late to stop changes to the ‘public charge’ rule that would undermine health and wellbeing of immigrant families

    September 27, 2018

    Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed sweeping changes to the so-called “public charge” rule that would block many immigrants to enter or gain permanent residency in the United States.

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  • Fostering Resilience to Address and Prevent Community Trauma

    August 29, 2018

    PI's Rachel Davis and Board Member Howard Pinderhughes, have written a chapter in Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Children, a two volume textbook edited by Joy D. Osofsky and Betsy McAlister Groves, entitled “From Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adverse Community Experiences: Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma.”

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  • PI's Weekly Media Digest: Illegal housing discrimination on social media, and how childhood trauma makes reentry difficult

    August 24, 2018

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending August 24, 2018! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • Bold Moves to End Sexual Violence: Finding Effective and Efficient Solutions to Intersecting Problems

    August 22, 2018

    The following piece appeared in Ms. Magazine Blog on August 22, 2018.

    Sexual violence, domestic violence, child maltreatment and community violence are often experienced together, and exposure to one form increases risk of experiencing or engaging in another

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  • PI's Weekly Media Digest: Drug overdoses killed 72,000 people in 2017; Pennsylvania grand jury reports on 70 years of child sexual abuse within Catholic Church

    August 17, 2018

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending August 17, 2018! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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