Prevention Institute
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Headquarters Location: Oakland, CA
Founded: 1997
Mission: Prevention Institute was founded in 1997 to serve as a focal point for primary prevention practice—promoting policies, organizational practices, and collaborative efforts that improve health and quality of life. As a national non-profit organization, the Institute is committed to preventing illness and injury, to fostering health and social equity, and to building momentum for community prevention as an integral component of a quality health system.
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national, childhood nutrition & health, advocacy, policy, illness prevention, research, consulting, health reform, health equity, environmental health, mental health
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Leadership
Larry Cohen.
Larry Cohen, founder and Executive Director of Prevention Institute, a non-profit national center dedicated to improving community health and equity through effective primary prevention: taking action to build resilience and to prevent illness and injury before they occur. With an emphasis on health equity, Larry has led many successful public health efforts at the local, state, and federal level on…
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Financial Data
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Total Revenue:
$3,244,543
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Contact Info
Website:
E-Mail:
prevent AT preventioninstitute.org
Phone:
510-444-7738
Address:
221 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607, USA
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What is the Prevention Institute about?
Prevention Institute was founded in 1997 to serve as a focal point for primary prevention practice—promoting policies, organizational practices, and collaborative efforts that improve health and quality of life. As a national non-profit organization, the Institute is committed to preventing illness and injury, to fostering health and social equity, and to building momentum for community prevention as an integral component of a quality health system. Prevention Institute synthesizes research and practice; develops prevention tools and frameworks; helps design and guide interdisciplinary partnerships; and conducts training and strategic consultation with government, foundations, and community-based organizations nationwide and internationally.
Taking a comprehensive, integrated approach to solving complex health and social issues, the Institute advances prevention efforts that address multiple problems concurrently. The Institute catalyzes quality prevention strategies that are well designed, reflect and respond to diverse community needs and assets, and achieve far-reaching outcomes. By translating previous accomplishments to new prevention measures, the Institute helps practitioners and decision-makers to achieve outcomes that are enduring and sustainable. Prevention Institute maintains a core focus on promoting health equity and primary emphases include preventing violence, traffic injuries, and chronic disease.
(To read more visit: http://www.preventioninstitute.org/about-us.html)
Expert Reviews of Prevention Institute
Evidence of Impact Summary:
The Prevention Institute is praised for changing the conversation on childhood obesity. By shifting attention from individual choices to broader, social dynamics, this organization has mobilized funders, government agencies, and policy majors to tackle the issue.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Most experts considered leadership and staff to be the institutes greatest assets. Others mention program design and other operation capacities as strengths, as well.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Multiple experts believe the organization should deepen its leadership roster. Others note collaboration and operations as other areas for improvement.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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The Strategic Alliance and its founding organization, the Prevention Institute, have had an impact on policies and systems, and have educated funders on the most efficient and systemic ways to address childhood nutrition and health. | ||
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The Prevention Institute has set the standard for addressing health issues using a prevention lens. They led the way in defining what an environment that supports healthy eating and physical activity would look like and successfully infused this approach into the public consciousness so that now California has adopted this view as has President Obama and the First Lady in addition to state and federal agencies and foundations that distribute funds. | ||
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They are keeping the 'lens' wide enough so that primary prevention has become part of the dialogue at all levels agencies, statewide efforts, and federal government inclusive of stimulus funds. | ||
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They have broad policy reach related to health promotion, touching on many aspects of child obesity prevention. | ||
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I am very familiar with the work of the Prevention Institute. They have been a leader in the field related to health equity. | ||
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They have written many comprehensive and well-respected reports. | ||
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They have provided very good, practical resources to communities across the country trying to make changes, and they are able to effectively navigate between public health and other specialties (business development, economic incentives etc.) Their ENACT tool has been useful to foundations in MO in thinking through investments in Healthy and Active Communities and their staff has been helpful with those same funders. That allows for resources to be devoted to MO organizations that are really making changes. | ||
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They have issued a lot of toolkits. | ||
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They have had leadership on nutrition policy in California and at the national level. | ||
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Their research and policy development are excellent. | ||
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They are a strong policy advocate. | ||
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They created infrastructure to direct policy advocacy and local organizing to impact food and physical activities environments: ENACT policy database, Strategic Alliance for Healthy Eating, and Physical Activity Environments. | ||
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They have successfully helped to reframe the obesity issue from individual responsibility to looking at environmental/social/policy issues. This has influenced funders including government on how they approach this work. We cannot succeed looking at individual issues alone. | ||
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The leaders are exceptionally experienced and smart. | ||
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They are a true leader in policy, advocacy, and in making connections across various traditional ways of looking at nutrition and obesity to 'connect the dots' and help work on the big picture required for true prevention. | ||
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Their leadership, high visibility in both public and private sector lead agencies, and strong strategic vision are strengths. | ||
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The Prevention Institute is consistently on the cutting edge in identifying and explicating policy issues. Its many contacts nationwide allow for substantial and rapid impact. The leadership is excellent. | ||
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They have a very experienced leader in Leslie Mikkelson and good staff to back them up. They provide very good resources for communities to adapt. | ||
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They have great leadership and an ability to work collaboratively at all levels. They are smart and strategic. | ||
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This organization has multiple strengths including the ability to work with leading advocates and bring them together around common agendas, training and curriculum development for non profits and communities, advocacy with state and federal agencies, identifying best practices, and promoting. | ||
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They are thought leaders, with great follow-through and impact, and they understand the work at multiple levels. | ||
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They are progressive, always at the forefront of the next big issue, great to work with, smart, and well-respected. | ||
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They not only focus on the individual level but addresses health concerns at the systems level. They have skilled staff. | ||
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They have a strong understanding of the need for systemic prevention. | ||
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The state coalition supported by the Prevention Institute, called the Strategic Alliance is a well-known force for change that served as a model for our own state coalition in New York State. | ||
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They compile information relevant to policy advocacy to improve food and physical activity environments. They compile stories of work on the ground. They have clear direction in policy targets. | ||
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They have strong leadership and excellent marketing. | ||
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The documents they produce provide an excellent framework and overview of the childhood obesity prevention issue. | ||
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The information they produce is great: quizzes, actions, information. | ||
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Their staff is excellent as well as their outreach to underserved populations. | ||
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Their staff and marketing are strong. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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They need more 'depth' in their staff; sometimes lower level staff is used for projects in which they need to get more support or training. | ||
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They should continue to nurture new young staff to move into leadership positions. | ||
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Prevention Institute could improve their organizational marketing and build a higher profile given their creativity and impact. | ||
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They just need help getting out the message about their great programs/information. | ||
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They could be more open, engage in collegial public dialog with those who don't agree with the sharpest positions. | ||
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Their high-level staff is very competent and understands issues very well. They need to develop their lower-level staff to bring them up to speed to help other organizations across the country. They provide an integrative perspective but to help them continue their efforts to integrate agricultural issues into their knowledge platform would be useful. | ||
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They should replicate the model beyond California. | ||
Leadership
Larry Cohen
Founder and Executive Director
Founder and Executive Director
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