Our recent grant to Prevention Institute aligns directly with one of our main goals, to foster innovative solutions for preventing injury. We have provided a two-year, $150,000 grant to promote their progressive public health model for community safety.
According to our CEO Tanir Ami, “More than ever, we are invested in long-term programs that cultivate system change, addressing root causes of violent injury. The current crisis shows us how important it is to understand, support and practice the public health model in all our work going forward.”
Prevention institute is a national non-profit that aligns strategy, policy and networks of organizations to build health, foster equity and prevent injury.
Executive Director Rachel Davis adds that “In collaboration with funding partners like CARESTAR and our organizational and community partners, we can transition from the current moment of crisis management and reaction to a national agenda that supports equitable health, safety and wellbeing and prioritizes the public health and community infrastructure needed to achieve that.”
This grant is specifically aimed at educating city and county leaders in California about the public health approach to preventing violence, providing models and guidance that support effective violence prevention interventions.
Davis adds: “It’s so important to bring together different fields that want to reduce violence. We have deep roots in public health and violence prevention. CARESTAR has deep roots in emergency and trauma response. We will only be successful in demonstrating that violence is preventable if our fields work together for a safer, healthier state.”
