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JUST RELEASED!

Community-Identified Strategies for Prevention during Compounding Crises

The Minnesota Department of Health and Men As Peacemakers are thrilled to announce the release of “Community-Identified Strategies for Prevention during Compounding Crises”, a community narrative based on the expertise and experiences of MDH Injury and Violence Prevention grantees and other community-based prevention organizations across the state. 

In this document, we highlight five key strategies for effectively adapting injury and violence prevention work during times of compounding crisis, based on the insights and wisdom community organizations and partners shared with us during this evaluative process. The strategies highlighted in this document point to the need for a paradigm shift in how we approach prevention work. Rather than a one-size-fits-all checklist of action steps, these strategies encourage a broader reflection of how community-based prevention programs and supporting partners can increase and leverage community-connectedness and to respond effectively to community need whenever the unexpected takes place.

Additionally, these five strategies have been translated into practical guidance and tools for the purposes of supporting both community-based prevention programs, as well as other partners within the prevention community, now and into the future. 

Finally, this document is just the beginning of a series of tools and resources for community-based prevention programs and other partners within the prevention community. In summer of 2021, MAP will be releasing a series of webinars, conducted by experts who participated in this project, as part of a larger Prevention Toolkit.