For the fundamentals on Local, State & National Policy, we invite you to begin with these publications:

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May 2009

Funding Prevention in California: Lessons from Past Efforts to Raise Revenues

This report, co-written by Prevention Institute and Berkeley Media Studies Group, explores past efforts to levy taxes and fees, and to identify and analyze future funding streams for prevention in...

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June 2001

Cultivating Peace in Salinas: A Framework for Violence Prevention

In an effort to improve health outcomes for children, youth, and families, the City of Salinas joined together with the Violent Injury Prevention Coalition (VIPC) and their foundation, Partners...

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June 2002

First Steps: Taking Action Early to Prevent Violence

The First Steps report, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and done in collaboration with Action Alliance for Children and Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, synthesizes a...

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March 2003

What Works in Reducing Impaired Driving

This is a version of an article prepared for the University of California Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter that discusses current trends and issues related to impaired driving prevention...

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January 2005

Before It Occurs: The Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

Produced for The Physician's Guide to Preventing Intimate Partner Violence, Prevention Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention co-authored this chapter on...

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July 2005

A Lifetime Commitment to Violence Prevention: The Alameda County Blueprint

The Prevention Institute authored this Blueprint and facilitated a development process that included input from a diverse group of stakeholders from across Alameda County.

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October 1993

A Public Health Approach to the Violence Epidemic in the United States

This paper appeared in Environment and Urbanization, and describes the root causes of America's violence problem and proposes a community-based public health approach to violence prevention.

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May 1993

Poised for Prevention: Advancing Promising Approaches to Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

This document serves to build momentum for a national primary prevention strategy to prevent intimate partner violence.

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May 2009

Transforming Communities to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: A Primary Prevention Approach

This policy brief presents the distilled research and critical thinking of a diverse group of local and national experts in the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Prevention Institute...

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