• SVCnews.com: March 7, 2018

    Supes Call for Closer Look at ‘Nuisance’ Tobacco Shops

    The LA County Board of Supervisors voted to examine tobacco shops in unincorporated areas of LA County to assess their impact on community health and safety. Among other subject matter experts, the press release quoted PI's Robert Baird: “Without reliable enforcement, the over-concentration of alcohol retail outlets in communities of color a generation ago can easily repeat itself with tobacco shops retailing cannabis. In reality, this process appears to be well underway and with similar impacts for addiction, public safety and disinvestment.”

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  • MASSLIVE: March 3, 2018

    'Ounce of Prevention' conference focuses on healthier communities

    Anne-Gerard Flynn of MASSLIVE promotes the "Ounce of Prevention" conference, the state Department of Public Health's annual event advocating for healthier communities through professional development, on March 27 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the DCU Center, 50 Foster St. PI's Founder Larry Cohen will delver the keynote address.

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  • USA Today: February 27, 2018

    Advocates see opening for tougher gun control laws for those guilty of domestic violence

    USA Today's Jayne O'Donnell writes about the potential for stronger laws to protect victims of gun violence, quoting PI's Lisa Fujie Parks:

    "Increased activism on the part of young people affected by school shootings is coming at a critical time in the gun safety movement, says Prevention Institute associate program manager Lisa Fujie Parks. 

    'What gives me a lot of hope is that never before have we had such a strong research base to know what kinds of policies will be effective,' says Parks. 'And we’re reaching that tipping point when it comes to both policy changes and...

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  • AlterNet: February 26, 2018

    How Two Local Communities Are Fighting Back Against the Trauma of Global Climate Change

    PI's Ruben Cantu's latest blog featured in AlterNet, "Building community resilience to weather climate change," explores how climate change is even more destructive to communities that already face adverse experiences:

    "While we all share the same warming planet, the effects of climate change aren’t experienced evenly across societies. Climate change poses a disproportionate threat to communities that already face multiple challenges, including economic disinvestment, higher rates of violence, and exposure to other environmental hazards."

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  • February 17, 2018

    Inside the newsroom: Students have the loudest voices in school shooting

     

    In the wake of Parkland, Doug Wilks of Deseret News reports on how students across the country are advocating for policy change and community-driven solutions to protect communities from gun violence. "They are turning their terror into anger, and action, something lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and perhaps adults in general, have chosen not to do." He highlights the importance of approaching the gun violence epidemic with different lenses, citing Prevention Institute as an organization that views gun violence as a public health crisis.

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  • High Desert Daily Press: February 7, 2018

    St. Joseph Health brings community groups together to work on solving High Desert problems

    High Desert Daily Press covers how folks in High Desert are looking to the St. Joseph Health  Community Partnership Fund's  Intersections Initiative for a community prevention approach to issues like homelessness, crime, and housing. PI's Sandra Vierra is quoted: “We need to be part of the policy-making process so we can turn things around,” Vierra said. “Our call to action, or opportunity, is to move upstream and get to the root of the problem.”

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  • Houston Business Journal: February 5, 2018

    Houston foundation launches $10M initiative to improve community health

    In the Houston Chronicle, Jen Para writes about Houston's Episcopal Health Foundation's new initiative to invest in 13 clinics in greater Houston and Austin, as well as Texas cities Waco and Tyler. The program, called the Texas Community Centered Health Homes, is one of the most recent CCHH initiatives, first developed by Prevention Institute in 2011.

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  • POLITICO: January 16, 2018

    A prescription for ... resiliency?

    In her POLITICO article, "A prescription for...resiliency?" Chelsea Conaboy highlights the importance of forging strong parental or alternative caregiver bonds in early childhood, citing Prevention Institute's work with Honolulu's Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange and Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services. Loving early childhood relationships, she maintains, likely protect against chronic mental health and physical conditions that often appear in adults who suffered trauma in their early years. Kokua Kalihi Valley is part of Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys, a national initiative administered by PI and funded by The Movember Foundation.

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  • Moving Healthcare Upstream: January 11, 2018

    A community prevention approach to mental health can improve physical health outcomes as well

    PI's blog, "A community prevention approach to mental health can improve physical health outcomes as well," was published on the Moving Healthcare Upstream website. A summary of our recent paper, "Back to Our Roots," the blog explores how health leaders can, and should, go upstream and use community prevention knowledge to influence mental health outcomes.

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