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Analysis of Governor Newsom’s 2025–26 California Budget Proposal, highlighting impacts on community safety, healthy environments, health equity, and key funding gaps affecting community wellbeing.
Prevention Institute’s work centers on health equity and racial justice. With support from the Kellogg Foundation, we engaged organizations improving community health to share insights, strengthen partnerships, and inform practices that advance equitable systems.
“For public health researchers and practitioners, preventing displacement may be the single greatest challenge and the most important task in our collective efforts to create healthy communities for all.” – Healthy Development Without Displacement: Realizing the Vision of Healthy Communities for All (Prevention Institute) Stable and affordable housing plays a critical role in the health of communities and individuals, allowing for continued connection to social support as well as proximity to jobs and education. All too often, low- and middle-income communities and communities of color must
In this piece, Grace Guerrero Ramirez shares how SHINE collaboratives cultivate leadership through mentorship, advocacy, and outreach—creating inclusive, supportive spaces where women and youth feel empowered to lead change in their communities.
Policy Priorities & Commitments Prevention Institute works in partnership with health equity, civil rights, social and racial justice, and public health advocates to champion and support an interconnected portfolio of federal policies, practices, and investments that strengthen community-centered health, safety, and wellbeing. Our overarching advocacy goals are grounded in: Advancing A System of Prevention for Health Equity and Racial Justice. We define A System of Prevention for Health Equity and Racial Justice as the outcomes resulting from collective efforts to champion community-driven
This past June, Prevention Institute, We-Collab, and our partners convened the inaugural meeting of the SYNC Safety learning community. SYNC (Strategies for Youth and Neighborhood Centered Safety) is a CDC-supported project to increase the capacity of Black- and Brown-led community-based organizations to take a public health and health equity-focused approach to preventing violence. Please join us for this look at the convening!