Direct experience as well as exposure to multiple forms of violence can have a compounding negative impact on children’s development. Despite the strong relationship, the fields of practice...

Adverse community experiences – such as concentrated poverty, segregation from opportunity, and community violence – contribute to community trauma, which can exacerbate adverse childhood...

Community violence interferes with young children’s attainment of key competencies — cognitive, sensory, muscular, emotional, social and behavioral — and compromises the capabilities of caregivers...

In recognition of the dramatically shifting national landscape, and with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit, nearly 25 leaders in community...

Prevention Institute has produced a video that explores the intersection of land use and violence prevention. This video came out of our...

Prevention Institute is helping the Annie E. Casey Foundation develop a community safety framework that is aligned with the foundation’s principles, priorities, and existing efforts to strengthen families, build stronger communities, and ensure access to opportunity.

Time and again, we are heartbroken by the news of another mass shooting. Part of our healing must be the conviction that we will do everything in our power to keep these tragedies from happening...

For more than 10 years, PI and ValorUS have brought together this community of practice to strengthen primary prevention of sexual and domestic violence.

Every day, people working across a wide range of sectors make decisions that shape how land is used, by whom, and for what purposes—and these decisions help determine whether communities will be safe or unsafe.