A renewed dedication to equity and prevention and a new Prevention Institute website to support the effort.
As 2010 begins, prevention and equity need increased visibility and additional resources to solidify the important gains we made in the last year. To help us do that, we've launched our new website, preventioninstitute.org, to better highlight our commitment, perspective and resources, and to serve as a focal point for bringing communities, policy makers, funders and advocates together.
Our new site is intended as a resource for the prevention community, and we would appreciate it if you would send us any thoughts and feedback you have -- and how we can make it more useful to you.
At this critical time, we've designed the new preventioninstitute.org to function as a hub for cross-sector efforts to keep prevention and equity center stage now and in the decade to come. It also makes it easier than ever to make the case for quality prevention, with features and publications that:
- Continue to build momentum and buy-in for quality prevention in health care reform with tools, advocacy opportunities and evidence dedicated to Reforming our Health System and the most recent strategies as they emerge;
- Demonstrate the economic value of prevention, showing how prevention saves money along with saving lives. Reports like Prevention for a Healthier America offer concrete data reflecting the 5-to-1 return on investment of quality prevention efforts;
- Emphasize health, safety and equity in all sectors and policies. Transportation Prescription delineates a new way to think of the nation's investment in getting around. Collaboration Multiplier uses an interactive framework to strengthen and enhance collaborative efforts; and
- Connect outcomes and strategies of successful prevention approaches to new challenges, including violence prevention, health reform, healthy eating and more: from our signature Spectrum of Prevention to a video Larry recently made, From Kools to Cancer Sticks, that shows how the same approaches I used in shaping tobacco prevention policies can be applied to today's pressing health and equity issues.
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We look forward to continued conversation and collaboration with you.