Elevated community-centered narratives in our policy strategies and practices.
In 2024, Prevention Institute further grounded our efforts in an affirmative long-term vision of the world we want to inhabit and strengthened our capacity to develop policy and narrative strategies that ask for what communities want and deserve.
An affirmative policy agenda describes a positive vision and hope for the future; focuses on long-term transformational change even while working through a challenging policy context; views policy passage as a starting point, not the end, by also emphasizing equitable policy implementation and evaluation; and seeks to grow, shift, and share power and resources with communities through the policy process.
To complement our policy priorities—and because we believe that how we show up as advocates and partners matters as much as the policy actions we take—we also formalized and released a companion brief describing the core commitments that guide our advocacy approach:
- Amplifying community-centered solutions and leadership
- Championing health equity and racial justice
- Upholding the values of connection, dignity, and interdependence
- Weaving multiple forms of evidence
- Elevating community-centered narratives
- Expanding and redefining our policy partnerships
- “Showing our work” for greater accountability and transparency
Prevention Institute relies only on unrestricted funds to support our grassroots and direct lobbying efforts. Non-lobbying support focused on integrating narrative strategy and advocacy was provided by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
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