PI Perspectives
Our take on important issues affecting the prevention community.
As community safety leaders cultivate healing and care in their communities, who – or what – heals these healers? In June, SYNC Safety partners discussed what it means to care for themselves and their teams as they navigate the demands of the work. This blog by Grace Guerrero Ramirez reflects this conversation.
Prevention Institute urges OMB to withdraw proposed changes to federal grantmaking rules, warning they would weaken evidence-informed public health investments, reduce accountability, and limit support for communities with the greatest need. Read our public comment and learn how to submit your own.
Newly released county-level data show that California's Medi-Cal managed care plans are expected to reinvest $186 million into the communities they serve in 2026. This blog explores what these new data mean, why community engagement is essential to the success of Community Reinvestment, and how the Catalyst for Community-led Reinvestment project is supporting communities across California.
In response to Governor Newsom’s May Revision, Prevention Institute joins advocates and partners across California in urging the Governor and the Legislature to protect and preserve critical community health and health equity investments in the state's final 2026–27 budget.
Blog post by Prevention Institute partner Jeremy Cantor on California’s new Community Reinvestment requirement for Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans and the opportunity to advance health equity through community-led investment, accountability, and partnership.
In this piece, Kalia Pannell reflects on growing up in El Paso and how dominant narratives about communities along our border often miss what matters most: relationships, resilience, and lived experience.
In today’s fast-paced news cycle, it’s easy to get swept up in striking statistics: percentages about government cuts, projections for the future, or data points tied to policy outcomes. But numbers alone rarely tell the full story. They don’t always reflect how changes are felt in communities, what people on the ground are saying, or who is stepping up to challenge inequitable policies and institutions. What we deem to be credible and valuable evidence has the power to shape what is possible for our communities. Narratives, built from collections of stories repeated over time, are central to
View this email in your browser With our hearts full, we congratulate Sheila Savannah on her upcoming retirement Prevention Institute began partnering with Sheila Savannah around 2007 when she was in a leadership role at the Houston Health Department. She had joined as Houston’s representative to our UNITY City Network, a group of health departments and mayors’ offices representing the largest cities in the U.S. that were advancing a public health approach to community safety and gun violence prevention. Immediately, we benefitted from Sheila’s unwavering commitment to systemic impact and
