KCBS Radio: June 28, 2019
Carrie Hodousek of KCBS Radio interviews PI's Sana Chehimi about how the e-cigarette maker, Juul, is trying to get on the November ballot to block San Francisco's ban of e-cigarettes. “They’re doing exactly what we would expect big tobacco to do. This is really a case of corporate profit versus public health."
Jackson Hole News & Guide: June 27, 2019
In honor of Men’s Health Awareness Month, which is June, Deidre Ashley writes that although men make up 80% of suicides in the United States, and men are just as likely to face mental heallth issues as women, men are far less likely to seek out help. She explains how traditional masculline norms for men leave them feeling isolated and unable to ask for help. She emphasizes the importance of initiatives working to change norms around masculinity, citing Prevention Institute's Making Connections community of practice.
Media Entertainment Arts Worldwide (MEAWW): June 11, 2019
In response to the Santa Fe High School shooting of 2018, two weeks ago Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a "school safety bill" into law. The law is meant to intensify school security, and one of its measures allows "as many armed teachers in schools and classrooms as local officials see fit." In this article in MEAWW, Priyam Chhetri explores the repurcussions of the law, citing PI's Alisha Somji: "To actually prevent these incidents and put a stop to youth gun violence, they need to dig much deeper, Putting guns in the hands of teachers does not align with our approach. In taking a...
Medium: May 29, 2019
In this Medium article by Laura Choi of the SF Federal Reserve, Choi writes about how historical policies like redlining have frayed social connections and other social determinants that protect against poverty and support mental health. She writes, "community development efforts can be designed to strengthen the mental health and well-being of the populations it serves," linking to PI's work on the pillars of wellbeing.
Chiming In: May 28, 2019
This piece by PI's Christine Williams and Wil Crary, featured in Mental Health America's blog, describes how KVIBE, an instructional bike exchange in Honolulu, supports the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys by addressing community needs like social cohesion, a sense of belonging, and physical activity.
The Post: May 22, 2019
The Hogg Foundation announces that it will fund a five-year, $11.5 million initiative that supports collaborative approaches to wellbeing in the greater Houston Metropolitan Area, with a focus on children and youth of color and their families. Its goal is to strengthen efforts to transform the environments where people live, learn, work, play, and pray to support resilience, mental health, and wellbeing. Prevention Institute will coordinate the initiative.
ACEs Connection: May 21, 2019
This article describes the Hogg Foundation's Communities of Care initiative that supports collaborative approaches to well-being in the Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prevention Institute will coordinate the initiative.
Houston Chronicle: May 13, 2019
This article describes the Communities of Care initiative, a five-year, $11.5 million initiative that supports collaborative approaches to wellbeing in the greater Houston Metropolitan Area, with a focus on children and youth of color and their families. Its goal is to strengthen efforts to transform the environments where people live, learn, work, play, and pray to support resilience, mental health, and wellbeing. Communities of Care is funded by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Prevention Institute coordinates the initiative,
Health Promotion Practice Journal: May 12, 2019
Among public health and health care practitioners, there is growing understanding that individuals make choices about their health not in a vacuum but based on the social, physical, and economic environments surrounding them and the resources available to them. Furthermore, we know that as a society, we have designed these environments and resource allocation processes and that those in turn can produce better or worse health outcomes. In recognition of this, some practitioners are turning toward systems thinking as a way of understanding the many sectors and factors that influence health, and as a strategy for influencing broad and sustained health interventions. In this commentary, PI's Juliet Sims and Manal J. Aboelata, describe Prevention Institute’s framework for a systems approach to population health that can achieve health equity.
Public Health Law News: May 1, 2019
Prevention Institute's Director of Health Equity, Elva Yañez, talks with the CDC's Public Health Law News about the importance of parks for health and wellbeing, and how communities can achieve park equity. She says, "PI’s approach to improving park access reflects our belief that equitable community transformation comes from investing in and building community-based capacity, leadership, and organizational infrastructure required for policy, systems, and environmental change."
