Promoting Health Equity and Racial Justice

We believe that every person deserves an equal opportunity to be healthy and safe. Health equity guides all of our work.

Advancing Prevention

We work with communities, organizations, government, and philanthropy to design comprehensive primary prevention strategies in several Focus Areas.

Our Tools and Services help strengthen community environments, so all people can be healthy and safe.

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New $7M Funding Opportunity: People, Parks, and Power

New blog: How Community Organizations and Health Departments Can Partner to Advance Health Justice

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Prevention Institute is hiring a communications director!

New report: How California’s Community-Based Organizations Filled the Gaps for Underserved Communities

Congratulations to the 2021 Healthline and PI Stronger Scholarship winners!

New paper: Changing the Landscape: People, Parks, and Power

New report: A Health Equity Approach to Preventing Sexual Violence

Upcoming Event: Young Minds Matter Virtual Conference

New video: Building Socially Connected Communities

July 28 webinar: People, Parks, and Power

New framework: Community Safety Realized

Blog: We are still in the fight for “absolute equality.”

Join PI at the 2021 APHA annual meeting, "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Strengthening Social Connectedness"

Analysis of CA Gov. Newsom's Revised 2021-2022 Budget Proposal

Webinar recording: Community Safety Realized

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BLOG October 19, 2021

How Community Organizations and Health Departments Can Partner to Advance Health Justice

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its f… t.co/CFRBtjD2TA

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less importan… t.co/nQlqsUvV3n

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin #HowWeHeal

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as th… t.co/T8K4RcdqvR

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” bell hooks #HowWeHeal

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - James Baldwin #HowWeHeal

“Pain disproportionately felt, without space for respite or relief, without accountability or acknowledgement, crea… t.co/vNUHqGbcYr

“Healing generational trauma requires an end to what continues to traumatize us: police violence, the violence of g… t.co/PsJks9DFN6