Letters from the Convergence Partnership, Prevention Institute, Policylink, Trust for America's Health and Public Health Institute to Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius make recommendations for health reform's Prevention and Wellness Fund.

Join us Friday afternoon for a webforum on the Affordable Care Act, the Prevention and Public Health Fund, recent disbursement, and strategies to ensure that community-based prevention is fully funded and supported in federal health policy.

Prevention Institute and Policylink, on behalf of Convergence Partnership, sent a letter to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee stressing the need for the child nutrition reauthorization legislation--the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.

Our new brief finds that we must work to prevent violence to realize real success in preventing chronic disease. Read the paper, and see the pilot projects working to put the recommendations into action.