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Cities are recognizing that violence is a preventable public health issue and are working to reimagine community safety. How can cities and communities work across sectors to invest in public health strategies and shift from an over-reliance on the criminal legal system to reimagining and finally realizing community safety? And what unique roles can health departments play to help cities work toward their community safety goals? Speakers - Chrissie Juliano, MPP, Executive Director, Big Cities Health Coalition - Rachel Davis, Executive Director, Prevention Institute - Sasha Cotton, Director
Slides from the June 8, 2021 Community Safety Realized webinar.
We're pleased to share our summary and analysis of Governor Gavin Newsom’s California Budget Proposal for 2021-2022. This summary highlights elements of the budget proposal that advance equity and justice through health, safety, and wellbeing, and is organized by our three overarching policy priorities.
Prevention Institute will facilitate a three-part bi-monthly learning series for local health jurisdictions and their community and government partners on applying racial justice principles and practices to build community safety. This series will support participants in understanding and applying racial justice principles and practices described in the papers, Building Bridges: The Strategic Imperative for Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice and Community Safety Realized: Public Health Pathways to Preventing Violence. It will also build on the momentum of local health jurisdictions and
Supporting Decision Makers Using Opioid Settlement Funds: What's in it for the People? A Conversation on Engagement With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Institute and its partners–Big Cities Health Coalition, ChangeLab Solutions, SheRay’s and Associates, and RTI International– are working collectively to increase an understanding of the evidence-base for preventing substance use, misuse, and overdose; build the capacity of decision makers to make choices informed by science, contextual, and lived experience to reduce overdose in their jurisdictions; and