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We provide tools that drive impactful change and elevate the field of prevention in general.
The opportunity to be healthy is not afforded to everyone in America. As a result, many preventable illnesses occur in higher frequency, earlier, and with greater severity among people living in concentrated poverty and in communities of color. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Prevention Institute analyzed what has contributed to these inequities to determine a pathway forward to produce health equity.
October 24, 2012 Join the movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food system! Take part in this push for a stronger, more united food movement by signing up to organize or attend Food Day events in your community. Learn more here.
May 9, 2012 The First National Bike to School Day builds upon the momentum achieved through International Walk to School Day, a global event that involves communities from more than 40 countries walking and biking to school on the same day. Click here to register your event and learn more.
Presented by the Center for Science in the Public Interest June 7-8, 2012 Washington, D.C. During the event, researchers, government officials, state and local legislators, health professionals, low-income and minority advocates, youth activists, consumer groups, faith-based organizations, health insurers, and business leaders, will strategize to improve health by reversing the dramatic increase in sugary-drink consumption over the past decades. Learn more here.
Prevention Institute's diagnostic scale helps organizations, communities, and collaboratives assess the progress of their prevention efforts and prioritize program elements. This tool can be used as an ongoing resource to help identify strengths and weaknesses of strategy and to increase the scope and effectiveness of prevention work.
The Community-Centered Health Homes model, first presented by Prevention Institute in 2011, provides a concrete framework for healthcare organizations to systematically address the community conditions that impact their patients. It combines years of prevention experience about how to keep people from getting sick or injured, with insight gained from interviewing healthcare organizations around the country who were inspired to improve their patients’ health and the health of the communities around them. We are seeing a rapid transformation in healthcare delivery and there is tremendous
This first-of-its-kind framework explores trauma at a community level. It explains how trauma is produced not only by experiencing interpersonal violence but also by experiencing structural violence – the harm that individuals, families, and communities experience from the economic and social structure; social institutions; and social relations of power, privilege and inequity that inhibit them from meeting their basic needs.