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We provide tools that drive impactful change and elevate the field of prevention in general.
Chapter in the text book "The New World of Health Promotion: New Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation," presents a detailed framework for strategically applying prevention to reduce health and safety inequities.
This framing brief explores how violence affecting youth has been portrayed in the news, how the issue of race complicates depictions of youth and violence, and how public attitudes about government shape popular support for violence prevention. Written by Berkeley Media Studies Group and commissioned by Prevention Institute and UNITY.
This Rapid Response Framing Brief shows how framing can help or hinder people's ability to see the ways environments shape health.
The UNITY RoadMap is a resource for cities to prevent violence before it occurs by mapping out solutions to effectively and sustainably prevent violence. The UNITY RoadMap 1) helps cities understand the current status of their efforts (starting point), 2) describes the core elements necessary to prevent violence before it occurs (milestones), and 3) provides information, resources, and examples to support cities in planning, implementation, and evaluation. As a framework, the UNITY RoadMap is most effective when tailored to the needs of a particular city. Browse the online version of the UNITY
This report focuses on indicators associated with community factors and how indicator reports and report cards can support community efforts to improve health.
Published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion, this article sheds light on the five unintended consequences of "obesity," and provides strategies to remove us from a focus on the "O" word and from blaming the individual for their condition.
This paper describes how a community-environmental approach could reduce health disparities in California.