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We're Not Buying It

Watch "We're Not Buying It," our video on deceptive food marketing to children. Join us and tell the President and the IWG they need to protect kids and families by ensuring the IWG's sensible, science-based recommendations move forward. Our kids' health can't wait.

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Congratulations—Youth Violence Prevention partially restored

Youth violence prevention advocates won a major victory, as youth violence prevention funding through the CDC was re-funded in the congressional appropriations bill. Join us in thanking Congress and the Senate for restoring prevention funding.

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Endorse "All Communities Deserve Safe Places to Play and be Active"

Together, we can forge solutions to transform neighborhoods into safe, healthy communities where all children and adults have access to safe places to play and be active. Find out what you can do.

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Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Wellbeing

Read our landmark textbook, and learn best-practices, concrete prevention tools, and strategies to strengthen prevention and community efforts. Download the first chapter and order the full text.

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UNITY Fact Sheets: Links Between Violence and Chronic Diseases, Mental Illness and Poor Learning

Read the latest fact sheets from PI's Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY) on how violence affects other health problems and community concerns, such as chronic diseases, mental illness and poor learning. More

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Community-Centered Health Homes: Bridging the gap between health services and community prevention

Prevention Institute outlines an approach that community health centers can take to promote community health even as they deliver high quality medical services to individuals. More

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Prevention Tools

Creating Effective Strategies: Develop multi-faceted strategies to impact community health with our signature Spectrum of Prevention. See All
Building Cross-sector Collaboration: Multi-disciplinary efforts become stronger and build on skills with the Collaboration Multiplier. See All
Strengthening Communities: Explore successful community prevention efforts with Communities Taking Action: Profiles of Health Equity. See All

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Now Hiring: Graduate Interns
Prevention Institute is looking for Graduate Interns who are committed to improving health and safety and reducing inequities through a focus on prevention.
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Reporters can do better: Media coverage of Sandusky trial amplifies shame/silence of sexual abuse
Berkeley Media Studies Group's new release, Breaking news on child sexual abuse: Early coverage of Penn State offers analysis and suggestions for how journalists can better report on child sexual abuse. Read our Huffington Post column about the study.
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12 for 2012: Prevention Institute’s most popular resources
In the last year, Prevention Institute has continued to build our library of free, online publications, tools and resources designed to help you put prevention and equity at the center of community wellbeing. We invite you to start 2012 by reading, watching and sharing our 12 most popular resources of 2011.
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