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We are intentional with our word choices and we use language to advance comprehensive solutions that support communities in achieving health, safety, and wellbeing. We don’t start with problems because that often conjures up a default understanding that individualized treatment or response are the only options. Instead, we start with community-wide solutions to emphasize that prevention is possible, and that systems and structures are accountable for our collective health, safety, and wellbeing. Here are some examples: Environments for healthy eating and active living: We use language focused

Health, safety, and wellbeing: We expand the notion of health beyond access to healthcare or the absence of illness and injury to understanding it as the physical, mental, and spiritual condition—inclusive of safety and wellbeing—that allows people to thrive and live fulfilling lives. Health equity and racial justice: We focus on ensuring that communities rooted in place and/or identity have a fair and just opportunity to achieve health by addressing root causes—like structural racism, poverty, and disinvestment—and centering community-defined priorities and solutions. Community transformation

Established in 1997, Prevention Institute began with humble beginnings, starting with two people and one small contract, working from a private home. But our vision was big. We were committed to advancing primary prevention as a strategy to save lives and money, reduce individual suffering, and improve community well-being. In our first two decades, we drew on lessons from community practice and past successes in public health and other fields to develop a systematic methodology for primary prevention, applicable to almost any issue undermining health, safety, and wellbeing. One of our