Prevention Institute

Community-centered Practice: Partnering with communities in support of community-driven change. Working with community collaboratives and networks, we coordinate communities of practice and learning communities; facilitate peer learning; provide coaching and mentoring; support community engagement, planning, and community collaborative capacity building; build power with communities; and manage grants to participating community collaboratives at the local, regional, state and national levels. Applying this strategy, we work to achieve community-defined solutions; community-level change across the sociocultural, physical and built, and educational and economic environments; shifts in power to communities; shifts to upstream prevention efforts; and expanded community engagement.

Practitioner Knowledge and Skill Development: Strengthening practitioner capacity to achieve equitable health, safety, and wellbeing. Working with practitioners across multiple sectors, we provide training and technical assistance; develop actionable tools, guidance documents, and case studies; engage in framework development; and widely share learnings and outcomes from community-centered action. Applying this strategy, we work to achieve applied knowledge and skills; the ability to operationalize equity objectives; a sustainable and sustained workforce; the capacity to work upstream and at the population level; the capacity to partner, collaborate, and engage with community collaboratives; sustainable stewardship to advance prevention and health equity; effective multisector engagement and collaboration; and community-centered approaches.