Join PI at the 2020 American Public Health Association meeting

• Reducing Community Violence: A Public Health Imperative.
  In this featured session moderated by PI advisor Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Rachel A. Davis will present Community-driven solutions to equitably advance safety and PI Board Member Reggie Moore will present Reducing Community Violence using Public Health. 

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM PT

• Poster Session
  Katie Miller will present The intersections initiative: Healthcare’s key role in partnerships to advance equity.

12:00 - 1:30 PM PT

• Opportunities for Collective Action to Prevent Violence Impacting Youth During COVID-19
  Lisa Fujie Parks will present Youth safety and wellbeing during the pandemics of COVID, gun violence, and racial injustice.

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PT

• Safer Communities through Racial Justice: Coordinated Virtual Action
  Join us to take action in support of local and national campaigns that are creating community safety by advocating for divestment from mass punishment and incarceration and investment in thriving communities and racial justice. Sponsored by Prevention Institute, APHA’s Community Health Planning and Policy Development section, Community Justice Action Fund, the Brotherhood of Elders Network, Human Impact Partners, and others.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PT

• A community trauma and resilience approach to the triple pandemic: COVID 19, racial violence, and the economic downturn
  Ruben Cantu and several of PI's valued community partners will present A community trauma and resilience approach to the triple pandemic: COVID 19, racial violence, and the economic downturn.

Tuesday, October 27
 
7:00 – 9:00 AM

• Actualizing the Legacy of Helen Rodríguez-Trías: Building Intersectional Health Equity and Justice
  PI board member Lisa Cacari Stone will participate in this collaborative panel. 

9:30 AM – 11 AM PT

• Communications for Culture Change: Communications Strategies That Create Space for New Approaches to Preventing Violence
  Andrea Buffa will moderate this panel, which is sponsored by the Blue Shield of California Foundation.

11 AM – 11:30 AM PT

• Innovative Partnered Approaches to Address Violence
  Alisha Somji and Lisa Fujie Parks will present Safety through connection: Engaging multisector collaboratives in promoting safe relationships. 

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT

• Sustainability of Violence Prevention: Anchoring Efforts within Existing Community Assets
  Alisha Somji will present Investing in community voice, leadership and organizing: Local efforts to democratize decision-making about violence and safety and Lisa Fujie Parks will present Culturally rooted, community-driven strategies to prevent intimate partner violence: Lessons from leveraging multisector collaboratives in California.

Wednesday, October 28
 
10:00 AM PT

• APHA Film Festival
  Screening of Christine Williams’ short film MC: ID How we’re staying connected, which features the work of PI partners in Albuquerque's International District that are part of the Making Connections initiative.

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PT

• Exploring Offices of Violence Prevention in California - a Leverage Point for Advancing a Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention
  La'Quana Williams will present Understanding the potential of OVPs to advance a community-rooted approach to preventing violence in the first place.