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Help us spread the word:
Thanks for standing up for community prevention.
Here are more ways you can take action:
- Tell Congress to support community prevention: Send a letter directly, sign on to our letter, or call your congressperson and ask them to support the Prevention and Public Health Fund in order to ensure that millions of Americans stay healthy, in the first place (talking points available here and here). Send a letter to your friends, family and colleagues and ask them to contact Congress, too.
- Preventing Violence Advocacy - Get Involved: 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.
- Monitor the conversation on prevention: Stay up-to-date with our hand-picked examples of current op-eds and letters that make the case for community prevention. Sign up for our Health Reform Rapid Response and become a community prevention media advocate with letter-to-the-editor, op-ed and advocacy opportunities, delivered weekly to your inbox.
- Explore our Media Advocacy Toolkit for tips on elevating your community's prevention successes to complement your outreach activities.
- Read the National Prevention Strategy, the nation's first comprehensive, coordinated plan to improve the health of Americans through prevention. The strategy was developed by the National Prevention Council, which is composed of 17 federal agencies who consulted with outside experts and stakeholders.
- Read examples of community prevention success in action.
- Sign on to the 'Principles for Quality Prevention in Health Reform,' a shared set of principles that aims to ensure the highest quality in our national prevention efforts.
Upcoming Webinar Information and Materials:
- Join us for an upcoming webforum, Taking Action to Support the Prevention and Public Health Fund on January 18th, 11:30 a.m. PST (2:30 p.m. EST). Please register now.
Send a letter to urge your Congressperson to oppose efforts to reduce, eliminate, or divert the Prevention and Public Health Fund as a pay-for for doc fix, the payroll tax extension, or the unemployment benefits extension.
- Protecting Prevention in the Affordable Care Act: Sharing the Evidence, Putting Leadership and Resources into Action. Access resources, presentations, and listen to our webinar discussing the latest from Capitol Hill, and share legislative outreach tools and messages to use during the August recess to educate leaders and decision makers.
- Putting the "Transformation" in Community Transformation Grants: Building Momentum for Equity and Prevention Access resources, presentations, and listen to our webinar on strategies for leveraging Community Transformation Grants to achieve meaningful, and sustainable community transformations.
- Educating Elected Officials: Effective Strategies for Prevention and Public Health: Access resources, presentations, and listen to our webinar discussing how to effectively educate elected officials about the value of prevention and public health-related programs with an emphasis on outcomes and results, as well as updates on the Super Committee and deficit reduction plans.
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Browse through Communities Taking Action, a collection of profiles developed by Prevention Institute that showcase successful community initiatives aimed at improving health equity. These profiles are meant to demonstrate key steps to creating healthy, equitable environments and inspire similar action in other communities and locales.
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denotes a project funded through Communities Putting Prevention to Work.
It is critical that prevention funding move forward as promised, and that the popularity, and cost-savings, associated with the prevention elements of the bill are heard.
There is strong support for prevention in Congress and our federal administration—they know that prevention works. Our elected officials have already stood up for prevention funding, and they are absolutely committed to keeping it in place.
These renewed conversations on health reform are an opportunity to bolster the existing support for prevention, and bring the message that prevention works to an even broader audience.
