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March 2020
Equitable housing is key to health
Stable, safe, and affordable housing is critical to health. But across the state of California, more and more people are being displaced, particularly low income communities and communities of color... -
April 2018
Safety in All Policies - A Brief on Engaging the Housing and Community Development Sector in Preventing Violence in California
Safety in All Policies: A Brief on Engaging the Education Sector in Preventing Violence in California focuses on the education sector and describes eight recommended actions at the local level and... -
January 2018
Making Connections Overview
Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys is leveraging the power of communities and connection to shift policies, practices, and norms to create greater opportunities for... -
November 2017
Mental Health – A Path Forward
New infographic explains how improving community conditions can enhance wellbeing as well as social, behavioral, and physical health.New infographic explains how improving community conditions can... -
October 2017
Reducing Children's Exposure to Violence: Maximizing Outcomes through Multi-sector Engagement
When sectors work together to address violence, not only can they fulfill their particular mandates, but they can also better serve communities and improve outcomes for children and youth. Prevention... -
October 2017
A Good Solution Solves Multiple Problems: Exploring Prevention Strategies that Address Multiple Forms of Violence
Prevention Institute and Futures Without Violence partnered to develop this paper to inform the Defending Childhood Initiative, a first of its kind initiative to address children’s exposure to... -
October 2017
Back to our Roots - Community Determinants and Pillars of Wellbeing Advance Resilience and Healing
Mental health is at the heart of many of the challenges we face, including trauma and adverse childhood experiences, social isolation, institutionalized bias and discrimination, and ‘diseases of... -
October 2017
Overview of the Making Connections Initiative (4 pages)
Making Connections is a national initiative in which a diverse range of communities across the U.S. are transforming conditions that affect the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys. This... -
December 2016
Video: Why Men and Boys?
In this short video, Making Connections partners talk about the importance of focusing on the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys. -
September 2016
Video: Making Connections
This two-minute video, created with our Making Connections partners in Los Angeles, provides an overview of the initiative and a glimpse at our collaborators across the U.S. -
June 2016
Movember Radio interview with Niiobli Armah
PI’s Niiobli Armah talks about early learnings in the Making Connections initiative, offering insights on the benefits of taking an upstream approach, tapping community assets, and re-envisioning... -
February 2016
Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma
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... -
October 2014
Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing among Men and Boys in the U.S.
This report was developed by Prevention Institute for the Movember Foundation to help shape its strategic direction and resource allocation for its mental health focus in the U.S. The report... -
September 2010
Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Wellbeing
Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention... -
October 2009
A Primary Prevention Framework for Substance Abuse and Mental Health
A framework created to promote the emotional, psychological, and physical wellbeing of San Mateo County. Includes strategies to promote policy and organizational practice changes and... -
December 2008
Bystanders can deter bullying
Prevention Institute's Annie Lyles is interviewed on the role of bystanders in preventing violence. -
September 2003
Health for All: California’s Strategic Approach to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
This report delineates how the resources of diverse governmental and private institutions can be marshaled to work with communities to make significant progress towards eliminating health disparities... -
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 decade...