In the News

In the wake of Parkland, Doug Wilks of Deseret News reports on how students across the country are advocating for policy change and community-driven solutions to protect communities from gun violence. "They are turning their terror into anger, and action, something lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and perhaps adults in general, have chosen not to do." He highlights the importance of approaching the gun violence epidemic with different lenses, citing Prevention Institute as an organization that views gun violence as a public health crisis.

In the Houston Chronicle, Jen Para writes about Houston's Episcopal Health Foundation's new initiative to invest in 13 clinics in greater Houston and Austin, as well as Texas cities Waco and Tyler. The program, called the Texas Community Centered Health Homes, is one of the most recent CCHH initiatives, first developed by Prevention Institute in 2011.

In her POLITICO article, "A prescription for...resiliency?" Chelsea Conaboy highlights the importance of forging strong parental or alternative caregiver bonds in early childhood, citing Prevention Institute's work with Honolulu's Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange and Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services. Loving early childhood relationships, she maintains, likely protect against chronic mental health and physical conditions that often appear in adults who suffered trauma in their early years. Kokua Kalihi Valley is part of Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys, a national initiative administered by PI and funded by The Movember Foundation.

PI's Lisa Fujie Parks joined Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Rising Up with Sonali to discuss building on the success of #MeToo to emphasize preventing sexual harassment and violence in the first place.