Prevention Institute
Programs
Health Equity and Community Wellbeing
Health: Our vision is that all people experience their full potential for health, safety, and wellbeing across the life course through thriving, equitable communities. Health is more than the absence of illness and injury. It is a physical, mental, and spiritual condition that allows people to thrive and live fulfilling lives. Our approach to ensuring that all people experience health across the lifespan emphasizes equity and racial justice, community and upstream prevention. Accomplishments include: Completed an Equity Analysis of Washington State Recreation and Conservation granting programs; launched a new community of practice to increase equitable access to parks and open space; partnered with the Big Cities Health Coalition to center racial justice in public health efforts; produced Investing in Equity: Designing and Implementing Public Funding Programs for a Just Recovery in California to ensure the inclusion of equity and racial justice in public funding programs and infrastructure investments; amplified learnings and accomplishments from two community of practice-based initiatives, deepening our support of community power-building; and supported The California Endowment's Social Bond process.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesOct 1, 2021 – Sep 30, 2022Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$3.9MMental Health and Community Support
Wellbeing: At Prevention Institute, our vision is that all people experience the levels of hope and aspiration, belonging and connection, trust, dignity, safety, and control of destiny that are needed for vibrant mental and behavioral health. Our work focuses on achieving good mental health outcomes, preventing trauma at a community level, addressing despair, and reducing substance misuse and addiction. Our approach emphasizes equity and racial justice, community, and upstream prevention. Accomplishments include: Developed a set of principles to improve mental health services in California through a partnership with the California Mental Health Services Oversight & Accountability Commission (MHSOAC); strengthened continuity between upstream prevention and treatment, response, and recovery; completed an update of the 2022 Health Equity Accountability Act Mental Health title; and supported 10 Collaboratives in greater Houston through our Communities of Care initiative as they mobilized resident leaders and youth to address community factors impacting their mental wellbeing.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesOct 1, 2021 – Sep 30, 2022Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$552.4KViolence Prevention and Safety Initiatives
Safety: Prevention Institute defines safety as the freedom from violence and the threat of violence that are necessary for people to thrive and live fulfilling lives. Our work addresses multiple forms of violence (e.g., school, community, intimate partner, sexual assault, and child abuse and exploitation) and the relationships between them. Our approach to ensuring that all people experience safety across the lifespan emphasizes equity and racial justice, community, and upstream prevention. Accomplishments include: Expanded our Safety through Connection initiative in support of healthy relationships and domestic violence prevention; supported a Cost of Gun Violence study whose recommendations were unanimously adopted by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors; advanced messaging, framing, and narrative change on community safety and partnered with the Big Cities Health Coalition on a national campaign; celebrated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's release of Resources for Action, an updated suicide technical package, which we supported; and expanded federal policy partnerships to work more closely with racial justice, social justice, and civil rights advocacy organizations, including to advance gun violence prevention.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesOct 1, 2021 – Sep 30, 2022Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$348.8K
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